LEGAL eagles volunteered to help in the Legal Mobility Partnership by co-hosting one day of a week-long experience offered to students at The American Express Stadium.

Trainee solicitors from Mayo Wynne Baxter shared their expertise and knowledge around the topic of How Legal Research Helps Us Advise Our Clients.

Co-hosts Southern Water provided an insight into in-house legal work.

The partnership is dedicated to broadening access to the legal profession by providing work insight and skills training to secondary state school students who will be the first generation in their immediate family to attend.

The LSMP starts with a week of intensive skills training coupled with work insights.

In this week students visit four different blue chip companies with a final day spent with a professional sports team learning about the psychology of resilience and goal achievement models.

The programme’s objectives are to:

- break down both social and psychological barriers to entering the legal profession for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds;

- develop students’ presenting, interviewing, influencing, resilience and negotiating skills;

- arm students with ammunition for CVs and personal statements and anecdotes to populate answers to competency questions asked at university and job interviews.

With this being the first year that the scheme has extended its reach to Brighton, Mayo Wynne Baxter provided a glimpse of private practice experience to sixth form students in Brighton and the surrounding areas.

Around 30 students were invited in from different backgrounds and of varying ages for an interactive day of activities and workshops.

The day was held to help students consider law as a path and learn how they could move forward with it on a more confident basis.

More information can be found at www.legalsocialmobilitypartnership.com