{"id":107,"date":"2018-12-12T15:41:44","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T15:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/student.multisite.legal500.com\/?page_id=107"},"modified":"2026-05-18T10:09:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:09:32","slug":"top-tips","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/future-lawyers\/career-clinic\/top-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Top tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A strength of The Legal 500 Future Lawyers survey editorial is that we give current trainees a voice by using their feedback to offer our readers the genuine inside track on the training contracts in the market. We also give graduate recruitment teams a voice &#8211; after all they are the ones who ultimately decide who is most deserving of a training contract!<\/p>\n<p>Aware of students\u2019 desire to hear more from their peers about the good and the bad of pursuing a training contract, we\u2019ve created Top Tips as a place where graduate recruitment staff at Future Lawyers firms or current students who have accepted a training contract can offer their own tips on a range of different topics. The authors select their own points and elaborate on each. These tactics have worked for future trainees or come straight from the mouths of graduate recruiters, so it is information well worth considering as you progress through university and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone would like to suggest a future Top Tips topic, please email <a href=\"mailto:futurelawyers@legal500.com\">futurelawyers@legal500.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A strength of The Legal 500 Future Lawyers survey editorial is that we give current trainees a voice by using their feedback to offer our readers the genuine inside track &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/future-lawyers\/career-clinic\/top-tips\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Top tips&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":102,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-107","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"featured_image_urls":{},"appp_media":null,"appp":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/future-lawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/future-lawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/future-lawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/future-lawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/future-lawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/future-lawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14298,"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/future-lawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/107\/revisions\/14298"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/future-lawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/future-lawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}