This year, qLegal hosted two training days on Saturday 8 October (Induction Day), and Saturday 15 October (Bootcamp Day).
The aim of these intensive training days was to help students understand their new qLegal roles, what is expected of them, provide training on key skills and to get to know the qLegal team and one another.
Training sessions covered a range of topics, including stakeholder management, professional ethics and etiquette, communicating in writing, listening skills, creativity for lawyers and collaborating with others and teamwork.
The creativity session saw multidisciplinary teams of students across qLegal programmes explore creative problem-solving. The session introduces students to “design thinking” and how people’s creativity comes in different forms. Through iterations, students developed a prototype of an innovative product, whilst challenging themselves to think creatively and develop their idea for a particular audience.
The feedback from both days on what they have learned and what they anticipate might be challenging was self-reflective and positive, with students reporting for instance: “I developed an understanding of how to identify and manage various stakeholders”, “the mindfulness exercise emphasized the importance of self-care in the workplace”, “I was exposed to the intricacies of professional communication in the UK” and “I became aware of the role of legal tech in the workplace”.