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Junior lawyers to host international weekend

01 September 2017
Issue: 7759 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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The annual Law Society International Weekend gala dinner will be held on Saturday, 30 September 2017 at the Society’s Chancery Lane headquarters. The black tie event forms part of the larger International Weekend 2017 and is aimed at all members of the legal profession in the UK (including LPC and BPTC students, trainee solicitors, pupil barristers, junior solicitors, junior barristers, and those undertaking the CILEx route), and overseas.

It is organised by the Junior Lawyers Division of England and Wales, the Young Barristers’ Committee, the London Young Lawyers Group, and the European Young Bar Association.

Issue: 7759 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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