Open to penultimate or final year students studying Law.
We're searching the best universities in the UK to find the outstanding law undergraduate. We're looking for a winning mix of personal skills, career motivation and an excellent academic record. The rewards are great: the winner will win a place on a three week paid Summer Work Experience Programme with Mayer Brown plus an accomodation allowance and a brand new laptop! He/she will collect the award at a gala event in Canary Wharf, London on 13 April, 2012.
Even if you don’t win, you still stand a chance of making the final shortlist of ten, all of whom will be royally looked after by the sponsor Mayer Brown and invited to the Undergraduate of the Year Awards as their guests.
So if you are a penultimate or final year law undergraduate...
And you are expecting at least a 2.1...
And you have a minimum of 340 UCAS points...
And you think you're the best law undergraduate in the UK, click the big button below.
Closing date for entries
is 31 January 2012.
How do I win it then?
It’s not easy to win the Undergraduate of the Year Award and competition will be fierce. The process is demanding and only the truly outstanding and committed will make it to the last 10. There are three stages that you’ll have to get through.
Stage One:
Submit your personal data and answer three special questions posed by the sponsor of the Award.
Stage Two:
Complete three online tests designed exclusively by our partners SHL, the world’s leading assessment provider. The online assessment will take you around 90 minutes to complete and somewhere between 30 and 70 candidates will pass through to the next stage. The closing date for entry is 31 January 2012.
Stage Three:
The sponsor will seek to find a shortlist of ten from the undergraduates who pass the first two stages. This will be done in a variety of ways including telephone interviews, assessment centres and further tests (depending on the sponsor). The final shortlist of ten is invited to the Undergraduate of the Year Awards in Canary Wharf London on 13 April where the winner will be announced.
Last year's winner:
Jack Bradley-Seddon
Jack is 20 years old and was brought up in Derbyshire. He is currently in his second year studying Law at St. John's College, Oxford. He is heavily involved in Oxford Legal Assistance, the pro bono programme of the Oxford Law Faculty. Last term he won a moot-final judged by Lord Neuberger MR. This summer he is completing a College scholarship to America to visit Oxford alumni. In the future, he aims to work as a barrister or a solicitor, and to continue his involvement with pro bono schemes.
Tell me about Mayer Brown
Mayer Brown is a leading global law firm with offices in key financial centres across the Americas, Europe and Asia with approximately 1,000 lawyers in the Americas, 500 in Europe and 300 in Asia. This unrivalled on-the-ground presence ensures our clients have complete access to local expertise on an global basis.
Our lawyers practise in a wide range of areas including corporate, finance, litigation and dispute resolution, real estate, insurance and reinsurance, pensions and employment, competition and trade, tax, intellectual property, and information technology.
Find out more about Mayer Brown at www.mayerbrown.com/careers/
