Oscar Attwood
NORWICH,Norfolk
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
8
8
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Legal Job Simulations
Forage
09.2025 - 06.2026
- Completed commercial law focused job simulations with Slaughter and May, Clifford Chance, Linklaters, BCLP, Bird and Bird, Freshfields and A&O Shearman.
- Completed Forage virtual work simulations totalling approximately 86 hours, covering M&A, due diligence, Heads of Terms drafting, financing disputes, sustainable finance, carbon-offsetting frameworks and climate-risk regulation across UK, EU and US contexts.
Mini Pupillage
East Anglian Chambers
NORWICH, Norfolk
05.2026 - 05.2026
- Completed afive-day, 40 hour, family law mini-pupillage, observing client meetings and court hearings at Norwich County Court, Norwich Magistrates' Court and Great Yarmouth Magistrates' Court.
- Observed how barristers prepared clients, identified key issues from case papers, handled evidence and presented oral submissions in primarily private law children's proceedings.
Summer Internship (Urban Strategies Team)
Buro Happold
London
06.2024 - 08.2024
- Produced QGIS/ArcGIS-based post-Hurricane Beryl risk assessment for critical infrastructure resilience, covering road access, hospitals, airports and flood-risk exposure; outputs were adopted by SVG government to inform Kingstown's 2025 regeneration masterplan and presented to senior internal stakeholders.
- Supported GIS-based analysis for $22.5 billion Riyadh transport network, using R, Python and internal GIS software to assess accessibility, population distribution and district connectivity presenting a section of the methodology to Saudi project team.
Summer Internship (Technical Assistant)
Natural England
NORWICH, Norfolk
06.2023 - 07.2023
- Used Natural England Priority Habitat Inventory datasets to map habitat constraints along proposed pylon route, using R/RStudio to quantify sensitive areas intersecting the route corridor. Findings informed National Grid's 2024 route revisions.
- Co-authored report “Priority Habitat Inventory along the proposed Great Grid Upgrade, Norwich to Tilbury.”
Construction assistant
Andrew Patrick Construction
NORWICH, Norfolk
08.2019 - 07.2022
- Supported residential construction projects through on-site operations, logistics and project coordination.
- Balanced 16 hours of part-time construction work per week with full-time A-level study, requiring organisation, discipline and reliability while adhering to strict safety standards and project deadlines.
Project assistant
WWF
Singapore
12.2017 - 01.2018
- Conducted 32 in-person and follow-up remote interviews with conservation rangers in Sumatra to identify challenges (poaching, habitat loss) contributing findings published on WWF Tiger Conservation Website.
Education
Graduate Diploma in Legal Studies -
University of East Anglia
Norwich 09.2025 - 06.2026
Bachelor of Science - Geography
University of Plymouth
Plymouth 09.2022 - 06.2025
A-Levels -
Langley School
Norwich, Norfolk 09.2020 - 07.2022
GCSEs -
Langley School
Norwich, Norfolk 09.2019 - 07.2020
Dover Court International School
Tanglin, Singapore 08.2017 - 07.2019
Skills
- Technical: QGIS, ArcGIS, R/RStudio, Python, Excel, spatial data analysis, GIS mapping, environmental constraint mapping, data cleaning and visualisation
- Professional: Legal research, report writing, quantitative analysis, client-facing drafting, cross-disciplinary collaboration, Property & Trust law proficiency
- Interests: Represented Plymouth University Rugby 1st XV, Representing Wymondham Rugby Club, Competing amateur golfer
Timeline
Mini Pupillage
East Anglian Chambers
05.2026 - 05.2026
Legal Job Simulations
Forage
09.2025 - 06.2026
Graduate Diploma in Legal Studies -
University of East Anglia
09.2025 - 06.2026
Summer Internship (Urban Strategies Team)
Buro Happold
06.2024 - 08.2024
Summer Internship (Technical Assistant)
Natural England
06.2023 - 07.2023
Bachelor of Science - Geography
University of Plymouth
09.2022 - 06.2025
A-Levels -
Langley School
09.2020 - 07.2022
GCSEs -
Langley School
09.2019 - 07.2020
Construction assistant
Andrew Patrick Construction
08.2019 - 07.2022
Project assistant
WWF
12.2017 - 01.2018
Dover Court International School
08.2017 - 07.2019