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What We Offer

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Long-Term Mentoring

We will aim to match you with a mentor who’s suitable for you and shares similar interests or is practising in the area of law you wish to practise in. Mentors will be trained in care experience and trauma-informed practices. Mentors will have a minimum commitment of 2 years, meeting for 1 hour a month. 

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Facilitating Work Experience 

We are currently in the process of building a legal network to offer PAID work experience opportunities for care-experienced aspiring lawyers.

 

We are committed at LWC to making this the standard. Please note we do not offer paid work experience ourselves, we only encourage firms and chambers to offer it.

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Community & Resources 

At Lawyers Who Care, we’re building a supportive community that uplifts care-experienced talent. We connect mentees, foster mentorship, and work to provide essential resources to help you thrive in your legal career.

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We also run monthly webinars and workshops that support our community. You can view those on our Youtube here.

How We Do It 

LWC is committed to breaking down barriers for care-experienced aspiring lawyers, we do this by;

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  • Facilitating long-term (2+ year commitment, 1 hour a month) mentoring for care-experienced aspiring lawyers (18+) by leading barristers and solicitors and 'drop in' mentoring for applications and interview advice with our wider LWC network of lawyers.

  • Facilitating training for long-term mentors in care-experience and trauma, in turn helping care-experienced aspiring lawyers feel seen;

  • Creating resources for care-experienced aspiring lawyers

  • Creating networks with law firms and chambers to provide more paid work experience opportunities for CEP; 

  • Providing a sense of community and belonging for care-experienced young people to feel seen in the profession for who they are;

  • Erasing stigma and empowering care-experienced aspiring lawyers to believe in themselves.

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Our Mission

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Facilitating Long-Term Mentoring

Create the UK's first robust mentoring organisation providing work experience and networking for CEP.

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Erasing
Stigma

Reduce stigma of being care experienced by building an understanding of unique skills of CEP within the legal field. In turn, encouraging more CEP to pursue legal careers by breaking down barriers.

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Improving Life Outcomes

Improve life outcomes for care-experienced people by facilitating and providing viable avenue avenues into sustainable legal careers.

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Creating Community

Build a sense of community to build peer-support and engaging events for both care-experienced aspiring lawyers and lawyers who are care-experienced and wish to connect.

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