Burges Salmon welcomed more than 70 law students to its Bristol head office to take part in a Question Time-style panel session on infrastructure.
The evening attracted students from Cardiff, London, Oxford and Cambridge as well as Bristol. Burges Salmon hosted the event in partnership with leading news source for law students Legal Cheek. 
Keith Beattie, a partner in Burges Salmon’s projects team, led the panel discussion with input from a number of the firm’s key lawyers from varying project specialisms.
The students were given free rein to fire their infrastructure-related questions to the panel, covering such topics as “Why is infrastructure set to be a major growth area for lawyers?” and “What role does an infrastructure lawyer have in Parliament’s negotiation on public housing construction?”
The Q&A session was followed by drinks and networking to give students the opportunity to ask the firm’s lawyers and recruitment team for advice on entering the legal sector.
Keith Beattie said: “It was great fun being in the hot seat and the students really impressed us with their enthusiasm and knowledge of the sector. We hope that the evening was insightful to all those who attended and that we’ve inspired some to choose infrastructure as a specialism.”
Legal Cheek publisher Alex Aldridge said: “We were delighted with the success of the event which aims to provide students with the unique opportunity to take to the floor and ask their burning questions directly to lawyers. I was impressed by all of the students who took part and the standard of the questions they asked.”
