Work experience!!

rumbles

1 . I want work experience in the law and i've tried ringing up the high court ,circuit courts, and the law library but none of them seem to take on students for work experience.I've heard that going to a solicitors office is not a worthwhile experience because you just make tea&coffee,so i'm trying to find a barrister but they're hard to find because they dont advertise, and probably dont take students either.
Does anyone know where to go if you want experience with law??

2 . I'm also interested in doing work experience in photography, but I have rang photographers from the phone book and they said it's unlikely that i'll find a photographer who will take on students.
Has anyone any other ideas of how to get experience in photography??

Jello

For photography, you could try contacting a newspaper to see if you could get experience with a photographer there. A friend of mine did this with The Irish Times a while back and she said it was good.

PurpleFistMixer

You could try going into one of the photography studios around, they might take people in. Though there's also a chance there of doing the whole tea and coffee thing but at least you can observe. : p

philologos

rumbles wrote:

1 . I want work experience in the law and i've tried ringing up the high court ,circuit courts, and the law library but none of them seem to take on students for work experience.I've heard that going to a solicitors office is not a worthwhile experience because you just make tea&coffee,so i'm trying to find a barrister but they're hard to find because they dont advertise, and probably dont take students either.
Does anyone know where to go if you want experience with law??

2 . I'm also interested in doing work experience in photography, but I have rang photographers from the phone book and they said it's unlikely that i'll find a photographer who will take on students.
Has anyone any other ideas of how to get experience in photography??

1. Work with a solicitor or barrister if possible, s/he will probably let you go to look on a courtcase

2. Photography, newspaper or something like that, just say you want to work with the photography element of it

Piste

Jakkass wrote:

1. Work with a solicitor or barrister if possible, s/he will probably let you go to look on a courtcase

I dunno about that, there could be confidentiality issues there, a solicitor forming a case mightn't like a 15/16 year old looking in on it.

pig on the wing

yes, a friend did his in a solicitor office, and the person took him along to a court hearing, but the judge said he couldn't see the case as it was a divorce, and therefore private.

philologos

Piste wrote:

I dunno about that, there could be confidentiality issues there, a solicitor forming a case mightn't like a 15/16 year old looking in on it.

hmm my older sister did that for a week and it seems fine. A lot of my friends in school also did that, so there mustn't be that great an issue with it.

spurious

Presumably they clear it with the client first.

I know I wouldn't want a 15/16 year old reading through a case of mine (depending on what the nature of the case was), but if I was asked, I could always say no.

I would be very displeased if I had not been asked and discovered it subsequently.

qwertplaywert

shouldnt this be in the big huge owrk experience thread?

jefreywithonef

Doesn't really matter tbh. Its not like this place with brimming with activity.

philologos

I'm sure one of the mods will merge the threads