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    turning down a regional TC?

    Hey all, First of all I’ll preface by saying this is premature, and I do not actually have the TC offer. But I am on a vacation scheme where the offer rate is 90-100% for my office, and a TC is likely, so this has been playing on my mind a bit and I’m looking for thoughts. My reasons for...
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    Baker Mckenzie + Barbri/PGDL?

    Hey all, I don't actually have an offer, and I am yet to apply for any TCs but I was doing a bit of firm research and Baker Mckenzie is one I'm quite interested in. I've seen that they no longer fund the PGDL and instead fund the SQE prep course with Barbri. In addition it seems Barbri offer a...
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    Converting VS to a TC as a non-law student?

    Hey everyone, This is so so premature but is more of a curiosity question than anything, as it's something that only just occurred to me. I'm going into my second year of non-law and looking to apply to some vacation schemes in the next few months. I know for many/most vacation schemes there...
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    Vacation scheme applications with little/no legal experience? + any other tips?

    Hey everyone, Apologies if this is the wrong place to post this, this is my first post here. I'm a first year/going into second year non-law student. I have only very recently begun to consider a career in law, as in since early May. My uni faculty held a workshop encouraging STEM students to...

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