Lucky students on the LPC at Cardiff University have the chance to win a week photocopying and binding at the offices of Hugh James Solicitors.
The firm has offered three "work placements" of a week each as charity raffle prizes at the LPC ball. What happened to the days of the top prize being a bottle of Babycham? The lucky winners will get a week of wearing a suit, shadowing a trainee solicitor, learning how to work the binding machine, making coffee and fixing the photocopier. And students will have to pay for the privilege: £1 per ticket or £4 for five. RollOnFriday would rather have the Babycham.
Students who have already secured a training contract aren't being allowed to enter the raffle. Presumably Hugh James fears they won't be suitably appreciative of the honour being bestowed upon them. Just to drive home the message, the University stresses that "although this is a prize, it is also a professional work placement being made available to students by Hugh James". And don't you forget it.
A spokesman for Hugh James said that she was unable to get hold of anyone who might know anything about this. Which bodes well for it being a well-planned week.
The Cardiff students who organised the raffle told RollOnFriday that they had approached Hugh James and asked them to offer the placements, and that they were very grateful.
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The firm has offered three "work placements" of a week each as charity raffle prizes at the LPC ball. What happened to the days of the top prize being a bottle of Babycham? The lucky winners will get a week of wearing a suit, shadowing a trainee solicitor, learning how to work the binding machine, making coffee and fixing the photocopier. And students will have to pay for the privilege: £1 per ticket or £4 for five. RollOnFriday would rather have the Babycham.
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She's happy because she's won a Hugh James work placement |
Students who have already secured a training contract aren't being allowed to enter the raffle. Presumably Hugh James fears they won't be suitably appreciative of the honour being bestowed upon them. Just to drive home the message, the University stresses that "although this is a prize, it is also a professional work placement being made available to students by Hugh James". And don't you forget it.
A spokesman for Hugh James said that she was unable to get hold of anyone who might know anything about this. Which bodes well for it being a well-planned week.
The Cardiff students who organised the raffle told RollOnFriday that they had approached Hugh James and asked them to offer the placements, and that they were very grateful.