British Telecoms (BT)
Interesting selling points
- Leader across the telecoms and media industries, with the opportunity to work on a number of exciting, high profile matters.
- Such a breadth of products and services that employees will likely have exposure to a uniquely broad range of work, and many facets of the telecoms industry. This can include a wide range of commercial work, as well as procurement law, product law, competition law, regulatory law and litigation, with trainees rotating between different departments.
- Ongoing supervision from experienced legal professionals.
- Closer to the business than you would be as an external (e.g. private practice) adviser. There will likely be opportunities not just to work on projects from start to finish, but also to see the product of your work materialise (as opposed to working on a siloed legal issue as an external adviser and having little insight into what happens once you're done).
- Opportunities to work alongside and learn from a broad range of non-legal teams, including employees from commercial, operations, sales and marketing teams. This might provide opportunities to give more commercial (i.e. business-centric) advice alongside legal advice, which might help you to become a more well-rounded professional adviser.
- You're likely to develop a broader practice and enjoy a greater variety of work in the long term, as you tend to specialise to a lesser extent in house.