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Barclays to offer 80 work experience places as high street bank mulls apprenticeship scheme

Barclays’ in-house legal team is to offer around 80 work experience placements to students from socio-economic groups under-represented in the legal profession in partnership with its panel law firms this summer.

In conjunction with legal diversity campaigning group Aspiring Solicitors, the 850-lawyer in-house team will run two one-week work experience placements in June for second year and up undergraduates or graduates of any UK university.

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