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How to handle a crisis of confidence

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Career advice for newly qualified solicitors

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Career development

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Group of diverse young professionals sat around table talking and smiling

Learn about the Diversity Access Scheme

A unique scholarship programme designed to address key barriers to the solicitors' profession faced by those from less advantaged backgrounds

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"Having my own firm at 29 was scary"

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How I became an in-house lawyer via Equivalent Means

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Overheard on a train: how I could have ransomed a law firm (but didn't)

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Lubna Shuja is a woman of South Asian heritage with long, straight dark brown hair. She is smiling widely and stands in front of the Law Society on Chancery Lane. She wears a burgundy blazer and a green necklace.

"If the pandemic has proven one thing, it is that solicitors are resilient and adaptable. They keep the wheels of justice turning by providing services remotely, innovating at pace and ensuring the public can get the justice they deserve."

Lubna Shuja,  president of the Law Society
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Careers clinic

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Supporting the international development of junior solicitors

We are members of the European Young Bar Association, through which you can access international resources, get involved in policy and other programmes, and make connections with European junior lawyers.

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