I recently graduated and am struggling to find a graduate paralegal role with no experience. So I've recently started a volunteer (unpaid) caseworker role with a hate crime charity. I've got a lot of responsibility in this role as I essentially help clients through the entirety of their case (liasing with police, public authorities, drafting letters of grievance in employment discrimination). Of course, I still have my ambition for commercial law which I'm demonstrating through selective Open Days, events, competitions etc. I was just wondering, maybe @Jessica Booker has some insights, whether this would look 'lazy' to law firms compared to people who are working full-time paid jobs alongside applications? I've always been under the impression that something, even if it is volunteering, is better than nothing but I am starting to doubt this. The job market is incredibly difficult when it comes to paralegalling/legal assistant etc.