{"id":13512,"date":"2020-05-21T10:20:31","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T09:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspiringsolicitors.co.uk\/?post_type=ambassador&#038;p=13512"},"modified":"2020-05-21T10:28:32","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T09:28:32","slug":"adam-h-2","status":"publish","type":"ambassador","link":"https:\/\/www.aspiringsolicitors.co.uk\/ambassador\/adam-h-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Hi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I graduated from the University of York\u2019s LLB in 2019 and the LPC at BPP Holborn in February 2020. Ahead of beginning my training contract in September 2020 I am working at a legal technology start-up named StructureFlow.<\/p>\n<p>I came to university at 25, after working in hospitality for 7 years. I was immediately concerned about whether being a mature student, being gay, being a first-generation university student, being working class, being dyspraxic \u2013 or even, ridiculously, being Scottish, would affect my chances at a training contract. These factors eventually helped me into my training contract. Not because I \u201cticked boxes,\u201d but because they help me relate to, and understand, a huge variety of people \u2013 and this is a people business.<\/p>\n<p>I was rejected from almost every scheme I applied to in first year. After being so roundly rejected, I spent a lot (!) of time on my application strategy. Subsequently I attended vacation schemes at Allen &amp; Overy, Slaughter and May, and Linklaters. I\u2019m very happy to share that strategy.<\/p>\n<p>I had an extremely full extracurricular life, but more important than that \u2013 in my opinion \u2013 was asking good questions of as many lawyers as I could, by networking as much as I could. I also benefitted hugely from several mentors, training workshops, and events run by Aspiring Solicitors, DiversCity in Law, and the LGBT Leaders Conference.<\/p>\n<p>I finished university by running the York Law Society and establishing an application program for a wide variety of students. I am therefore happy to deal with questions on a wide variety of matters, including from non-law students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13513,"template":"","acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Adam Hi | Slaughter and May | Aspiring Solicitors - Law Careers Diversity Advice<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I graduated from the University of York\u2019s LLB in 2019 and the LPC at BPP Holborn in February 2020. 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