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Associate lawyer
Name: Waynette Hollis Job: Lawyer Company: Conyers Dill & Pearman Limited Working hours: 9am to 5pm
Bermuda youre called, or invited, to the bar, usually by the rm that youre training at. As an associate you have to do more than just great work, you have to build relationships within the rm with others who are established so you are fed the work thats going to help you develop as a young lawyer. You have to build your practice, and as a new kid on the block that comes with the exposure you gain when a lawyer more senior than you asks you to handle, or assist them with, a matter.
What professional and/or academic qualifications or experience did you need to start your career?
In Bermuda, you need an LLB, or there is a postgraduate programme called the Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL), which is a shorter route for graduates in other subjects. You need to have a law degree either from Canada, the UK, Australia or West Indies because of the English law connection; the US system is different. The next step after completing your law degree again depends on where you gained it. In the US you sit a bar exam. After English law students nish their law degree they go on to either the legal practice course or the bar course, depending on where their interest lies. These programmes are a year long and end with a set of exams, which some might say replaces the need to sit a bar exam like in the US. After you pass your exams you go on to a year of training. Then in
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