What they don't teach you at law school

'If you are thinking of or are joining a law firm this book could secure your future and help guarantee a flying start to your legal career'

Law School is all very well with its academic niceties and its carbolic smoke balls - day-to-day life in a modern law firm is warfare. And that's if you get in the door...

'Elephant' traps, office politics and, yes, even that scourge of the trainee - photocopying - are the often baffling rites of passage in a law firm. There are arcane rules and ways of doing things and you need to grasp them fast if you are to survive.

This book is the distillation of years of experience from lawyers young and old, provincial or City, secretaries, support staff and PSLs (know who or what they are?).

Our guide takes you from application for a training contract through your gestation as a trainee. Practical, painstaking and dripping with commonsense, every aspect of your day-to day life is covered from what to wear, billing and time-recording to dealing with those highly stressed egomaniacs who now control your long waking hours.

This book will make you better prepared for the culture shock so many trainees say they encounter when they enter their firm's portals for the first time. And that will mean a better chance of your flourishing in this challenging but highly rewarding environment.

Designed for students considering a career in law, law-firm interns, LPC students, trainees, trainee supervisors and many more; All you need to know about being a trainee solicitor will make you better prepared for the realities of a career in law. Written accurately and without exaggeration, our book focuses on the human and practical elements of the training contract, covering all aspects in great detail.