Kilkenny Law Festival
So You Want to Be a Lawyer? Student Special hosted by Colm O'Regan
Law is on a lot of CAO forms because it sounds serious and pays well. Almost nobody filling in the form has met a lawyer who wasn't on television. This is the morning to meet two. Mark Tottenham practises at the Irish Bar, writes about the law and hosts The Fifth Court, the country's leading legal podcast. Gerard Clarke is a London commercial barrister who works on the disputes where the sums have nine zeros. Comedian and author Colm O'Regan puts the questions students actually want answered: what you do all day, what you earn in year one and what you don't, whether you need Trinity, why the wig, what happens when you lose, and why some people love the job and some people get out. Then it's open to the floor. Ask them anything. For Transition Year, fifth and sixth years, and anyone who has ever wondered whether they could stand up in court. School groups welcome