A legal background is not a prerequisite for a policy role. A propensity for analysis and an ability to be thorough and harness productive working relationships is key.
Every year, each clerkship cohort participates in the tendering project, where they pitch the firm to a prospective client – it really gets your competitive side going as you want your team to be the one to land the client!
The coolest thing about my job, is that I get to work on upcoming projects and I get to see the project from the very beginning right through to the finished product.
Getting to work with innovative technology that enables cutting-edge subatomic research to be conducted is still something which blows my mind everyday I’m at work.