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  1. flyingavocado

    LPC or SQE?

    Thank you Jessica! Great insight. Perhaps the best way is to go for the traditional TC route and leave SQE as a back-up choice. Thanks for the reply!
  2. flyingavocado

    LPC or SQE?

    Hi Jessica, thanks for all the useful information up there! I am wondering if you know whether the qualifying work experience must be within England and Wales? I have solid 3 full years of trainee/associate level legal work experience at the overseas office of a few international law firms. My...
  3. flyingavocado

    Ask A Graduate Recruiter Anything!

    Hi Jessica, thanks for the insight! I am a penultimate year law student now, but by the time CC closes this TC application in December I will be a final year law student. Does that mean I can still apply as a penultimate year law student? Or must I choose final year law student? Hope to hear...
  4. flyingavocado

    Clifford Chance TC

    I have the same question. I am in my penultimate year now but by the time CC closes this application (i.e. Dec 2020) I will be in my final year. Should I tick penultimate year, or must I choose final year law student?

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