Faculty of Advocates Talk

Festival of Legal Possibilities

Join us for an insightful career talk hosted by the Faculty of Advocates.

This is the perfect opportunity to find out more about the life of an advocate, how to get in to the profession and where it might take you in the future.

Advocates are specially trained lawyers who are independent and objective. As well as initially having to train as a solicitor, they undergo further training (devilling) and examinations before they can call to the bar. Advocates come from a diverse range of backgrounds but all have an incisive, intelligent interest in the law and a determined approach when it comes to assessing their client's position. They specialise not only in legal analysis but in the presentation of legal arguments and can represent all manner of clients in the highest courts in the land.

We will be joined by two Advocates who will talk about their career paths and how that led them to the Bar. The type of work they undertake, what the training process is like, what life is like being self-employed and more.

The session will and with a Q&A.

Speakers include:

Safeena Rashid - Safeena is an Edinburgh Law School alum (LLB Hons ’07) and an experienced junior with appearances ranging from the Justice of the Peace Court to the Appeal Court. She was called to the Bar in 2013. As well as criminal law expertise, she has appeared in tribunals representing the Home Office, asylum seekers, immigrants, parties in employment disputes and the Nursing and Midwifery Council. Safeena trained with the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service, becoming a Procurator Fiscal Depute before devilling in 2012.

Alasdair McKenzie - Alasdair was called to the Bar in 2009.  He took silk in 2022.  He specialises in construction law and construction-related professional negligence.  Before becoming an advocate, Alasdair was a solicitor.  He qualified first in Scotland and then in England & Wales.  He worked both in private practice and in-house, and has lived and worked in the Falkland Islands, Inverness, Edinburgh, London and Baku, Azerbaijan.

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