Coronavirus update: Matrix remains open with reduced opening hours (9-6pm). We are encouraging clients to hold meetings over video or telephone conference rather than in person. For all work enquiries, please call us on 020 7404 3447. To help direct your call further, please see our list of key contacts.

Work Experience

We have been running a successful programme of work experience placements since spring 2001. We aim to give students on work placements a taste of work in a modern legal practice and busy office environment.

If you have any general enquiries then please email the work experience coordinator, Zuwaina Nelson workexperiencequeries@matrixlaw.co.uk.

Applications for 2020

We are currently at full capacity for work experience placements for 2020 and are not accepting further applications.

Our work experience blog

Each work experience student is encouraged to tell us about their time at Matrix for the benefit of other students. You can read about it here.

About Matrix

Matrix is a legal practice that was set up in May 2000 to modernise the environment in which barristers work, and the way in which their professional practices are managed and developed. We work in an environment where diversity and accessibility are widely championed, and out-dated practice is challenged.

Duties

The duties students can expect to undertake during a work placement at Matrix include:

Completing basic legal exercises
Conducting legal research and writing legal reports
Learning about the roles of the staff team at Matrix
Helping to book travel arrangements
Taking barristers’ papers to court and observing them in action
Helping to set up events
Dealing with post
Other ad hoc administrative duties

Application Criteria

Our Work Experience programme is only open to those currently undertaking GCSE’s and/or A-Levels or equivalent.

We take two Work Experience students every other week. In selecting students for work experience, we actively seek to promote access to the profession and equal opportunities for those typically underrepresented at the Bar. Therefore, individuals who meet the following criteria will be prioritised in the application process for one of our two weekly placements:

Currently undertaking GCSE’s and/or A-Levels or equivalent.

AND

Would be the first generation in their family to attend university
Have been in receipt of Free School Meals whilst at secondary school
Have parent(s)/guardian(s) who qualify for means-tested benefits
Have been looked after or in care
Are from a background underrepresented in law such as from an ethnic minority or have a disability/long term health condition

If you believe you meet the above criteria, and wish to be considered for one of these priority placements, please tick the appropriate box in the Application Form.

The second placement will remain accessible to all other students currently undertaking GCSE’s and/or A-Levels or equivalent.

Future Lawyers scheme

If you are accepted to complete one of our priority work experience placements (as described above) and you are studying for your A-Levels or equivalent at the time of your placement, you are eligible to enter the competition to be accepted onto our Future Lawyers scheme.

Participants in the Future Lawyers scheme will be matched with a mentor at Matrix and invited to advocacy and networking workshops. Please see the Future Lawyers Scheme Fact Sheet for full details.