‘All about law’ is a very useful website for all students of law, whatever their stage in training. It is an excellent one-stop overview of career options for law students, and is a helpful and dynamic website.
What I love about this website is its intuitive social dimensions, where it treats students as contributing to shared value of a community with a common purpose. It even has a platform, designed with the help of educational psychologists, which invites the student to consider whether law is the right career for him or her. This is at a time when law students are increasingly considering whether the value of their legal education, as well as the material cost. Is it for example a good idea to complete the GDL or LPC, if law firms do not then call you for interview? This Survey bases its feedback on the basis of the behaviour, personality and skills demonstrated in the answer, so is therefore extraordinarily helpful.
There are forums (sic) for students to get involved with, including for students who are pre-university, undergrads, postgrad, non-law, or international. I feel the “tools of the trade” section is really impressive, and has useful hints-and-tips on courses, careers, applications and interviews, and pro bono. I feel the news section is also spot-on, tailored for the current needs of students. For example, in an item just a few days old now, All about Law reveals that BPP has announced that it is offering places at its centres across the UK to start a degree in May 2012 on its accountancy, business and law programmes.
What is refreshing about this blog is that nobody is trying to sell you another. This is brilliant, a law firms often produce glossy propaganda to sell how wonderful they are, when the reality of working in their firm is well-known to be far from the picture presented by their advertising material. I therefore love the range of blogs, including the student blogs (why no LPC blog though guys), as well as the blogs from the trainee solicitor, legal executive, paralegal, and inhouse lawyer, to name-but-a-few.
