UCL CAJ Alumni Careers panel in public interest law

Are you passionate about issues of social justice? Want to use your skills to help ordinary people, rather than big businesses? Does “commercial awareness” confuse, scare, or just bore the hell out of you? Well, us too!

Come and hear former UCL Laws students talk about what they’ve been up to since graduating, how and why they got into non-commercial law, and what lessons they’ve learned along the way.

This talk is open to both UCL non-law students and law students alike.

Speakers

Thembi Fakoya-Sales, Justice First Fellow, Trainee Solicitor at Mary Ward Legal Centre - Thembi completed her LLB at University College London where she studied Law with Hispanic Law, spending a year in Madrid studying the Spanish legal system. During her final year of her LLB Thembi undertook casework at Just for Kids Law gaining experience in Education and Community Care Law. She went on to study the Legal Practice Course at the University of Law in London (formerly the College of Law) passing with a distinction in 2016. Thembi is due to qualify January 2020 and will continue practising in Housing and Public Law.

Rhiannon Plimmer-Craig, Adviser, Protect - Rhiannon joined Protect in July 2019 after graduating with a First in Law from UCL. She spent a year of her degree studying Australian law at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. She has previous volunteering experience in mentoring roles.