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  • Best Transferable Skills for Legal Secretaries

    • 15 Nov 2018

    Considering a career as a Legal Secretary? Use this handy guide from the Institute of Legal Secretaries and PAs to find out which transferable skills you may already have.

  • How to make legal recruiters love your CV

    • 25 Sep 2018
    • Chelsey Newsom, Sellick Partnership

    Chelsey Newsom, manager and specialist legal recruiter at Sellick Partnership provides the inside scoop on how to make recruitment consultants love your CV.

  • Five tips to become a Partner by 35

    • 4 Sep 2018
    • Robert Walters Legal Recruitment

    Sam Walters, Director of Legal Recruitment at Robert Walters, shares five key tips to help you on your way to becoming a Partner by the time you are 35.

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    How to Apply for a Legal Secretary Role When Your Skills Don't Match the Exact Job Specification

    • 3 May 2018
    • Institute of Legal Secretaries and PAs (ILSPA)

    Find out some top tips to help you highlight your key skills and give yourself the best possible chance of securing your dream role

  • What skills do lawyers need to succeed?

    • 31 Jan 2018

    Lawyers can no longer rely on their academic achievements to secure themselves a role at a leading firm. Instead they need to demonstrate they can achieve long term success in a modern workplace.

  • Key Steps to Getting a Legal Secretary Job

    • 24 Jan 2018

    New Year, New Job? If you want to start your career as a Legal Secretary the Institute of Legal Secretaries and PAs (ILSPA) are here to help.

  • Going Global - Living and Working Abroad

    • 14 Jun 2017

    Living and Working abroad is an increasingly popular choice for Legal professionals. We share the most popular locations from our Audience Insight survey, what difference age makes and give an overview of the benefits and downfalls of making the move.

  • Law apprenticeships; a more direct route into the legal profession?

    • 12 Apr 2017
    • Lynn Sedgwick, MD of Clayton Legal

    In this article, we explore whether law apprenticeships are a more direct route into the legal profession and what routes are available to kick-start your paralegal career.

  • Career Coaching Lawyers

    Career Coaching for Lawyers

    • 7 Dec 2015
    • Rosie Evans and Personal Career Management

    In this article we explore how Career Coaches can support you with your next Lawyer job search.

  • Gender and Partnership

    Gender and Partnership

    • 11 Jul 2016

    This article is aimed at female lawyers who would like to be partners, and details: key questions you should ask yourself when considering your career goals, as well as a three-step path to making partner

  • Top tips for law graduates to kick start your care

    Top tips for law graduates to kick start your career

    • 12 Jan 2023
    • Corinne Mills in association with Totallylegal

    There are lots of different types of legal jobs you can do with a law degree. In this article we give advice to law graduates on how to perfect their cv and apply for top law graduate jobs.

  • How to become a Conveyancer

    • 20 Apr 2022

    Licensed conveyancers are the vital legal link between people and the property ladder, bringing ambitions of buying and selling homes, business premises and land to life. They’re specialist lawyers who make sense of the administration and finances needed to transfer ownership of all types of real estate – from workplaces to green spaces to your clients’ very own Grand Designs.

  • How Lawyers Rely on Their Secretaries

    How Lawyers Rely on Their Secretaries

    • 13 Aug 2018
    • The Institute of Legal Secretaries and PAs (ILSPA)

    Legal Secretaries are there to assist Lawyers with their workload. They are an integral part of a team of legal professionals and work hard to ensure that a firm can run smoothly and efficiently.

  • 3 signs your CV needs help from a pro

    • 10 Jul 2018
    • Rikki Wimmer

    If you’ve succumbed to any of the following CV blunders, it may be time to speak to a professional.

  • The Watson Glaser test and other psychometric tests for lawyers

    • 8 Mar 2018

    After applying for a position in a law firm in the UK, one of the first challenges you'll be faced with are the various psychometric tests used by legal firms and graduate employers.

  • An Overview of a Legal Secretary’s Role in Litigation Cases

    • 23 Feb 2018

    If you’re interested in becoming a Litigation Legal Secretary, read on and find out exactly what the job involves. The Institute of Legal Secretaries and PAs offer a Legal Secretaries Diploma, which covers Civil Litigation and much more.

  • Lawyer, solicitor or barrister?

    Lawyer, solicitor or barrister? Legal roles unravelled

    • 25 May 2017

    The lexicon of legal practitioners can be confusing. So what's the difference between a lawyer, a solicitor and a barrister? Find out...

  • What does Google say about you?

    • 28 Apr 2017

    Today’s job marketplace is incredibly competitive and law firms face two very distinct challenges: how to find the best legal professionals people to come and work for them and how to keep the talent they already have.

  • Your questions, answered

    • 7 Apr 2017

    Need help with your TotallyLegal profile? Or maybe you want a free CV review?

  • Is job hopping a bad thing anymore?

    • 18 Aug 2016
    • Lynn Sedgwick, Managing Director of Clayton Legal

    So called job hopping used to be seen as a wholly negative trait.However, fortunately, times and opinions have changed quite substantially. ‘Job hoppers’ aren’t painted in anywhere near as negative a light as they once were.