NLJ jobs & career hub: career clinic & practice development

For insight into overcoming obstacles and achieving career success, visit NLJ’s careers clinic.

For example, you might want to find out how the legal market is expected to perform in 2022: which areas of law will see continued demand? Will salaries continue to rise this year, how will firms react to demand for flexible working and will we see a change in law firm culture? Seamus Hoar, senior partner, Major, Lindsey & Africa looks at these issues in his NLJ article, ‘Will the party end in 2022? Not before it gets a whole lot louder’. 

If legal marketing is your bag then turn to Dominic Ayres’ excellent article, ‘Getting ahead in legal marketing’. Ayres, a senior client manager at Eversheds Sutherland, and the author of How to Advance Your Career in Professional Services Marketing (January 2022), provides a wealth of insight into this fast-paced and demanding career. 

Or perhaps your field is litigation and you either want to support your junior litigators or you are a junior litigator? The pandemic provided uniquely different challenges for us all. Emma West of RPC & Caroline Phipps of LK Law are co-chairs of the Associates Committee of the Commercial Litigators’ Forum: in an informative article, ‘Junior litigators & the new ‘normal’’, they look into the career challenges and opportunities of post-pandemic working for junior practitioners in litigation. 

For all this and much, much more: visit NLJ’s Jobs & Careers hub, at www.newlawjournal.co.uk/career-hub.