Aintree law student triple award winner

By Ben Schofield on Sep 24, 08 12:32 PM

A LAW student from Aintree has scooped three top industry awards.

Claire Fitzgerald was awarded the DLA Piper Prize, one of the major national law student awards in the UK. She also won two Norh West regional awards.

The triple-winner grew up in Aintree and studied at Liverpool University where she picked up a 2:1 honours degree in law.

Ms Fitzgerald, 23, was a student at The College of Law's Chester Centre and has started her training contract with Maxwell Hodge Solicitors in Merseyside. She now lives in Standish, Lancashire.

The DLA Piper prize is for the student at the college with the highest combined mark in the Business & Commercial Law part of the college's Legal Practice Course, which all those intending to become solicitors must pass before they can proceed to the next stage of practice. She scored an average 87% in the Business & Commercial part of the LPC.

As well as the DLA prize, Ms Fitzgerald also won the Brown Dunne and Gray prize for Advanced Litigation, awarded by BDG, one of the North West's top specialist accident solicitors based in Altrincham, and the Chester and North Wales (Incorporated) Law Society Prize for the best overall student on the LPC at the College's Chester centre.