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  1. WillKitchen

    Open Day Networking 2025

    Well, that wraps-up my open day programme for 2025. Thank you very much to everyone from the TCLA forum who said hello at one of the following events. It was great to meet you offline! Charles Russell Speechlys, Guildford LawCareersNet LIVE, London Cooley, London Simmons & Simmons, Oxford...
  2. WillKitchen

    LawCareersNet Live London Dec 2025

    I’m looking forward to attending LawCareersNet Live in London today (Jones Day & RPC sessions). If you’re here too, do say hello!
  3. WillKitchen

    Open Day Experiences

    What firm had the most interesting approach to organising an open day, in your experience? ...a unique structure, interactive workshops that felt like real work experience, or perhaps the managing partners turned up to say hello! One that sticks in my mind is Skadden. The firm organised a...
  4. WillKitchen

    Recent low SQE 1 pass rates (2025)

    There has been some discussion of the low pass rates with the SQE 1 summer exams in recent weeks. As low as 41%... https://sqe.sra.org.uk/news-item/2025/10/01/july-2025-sqe1-statistical-report-published#:~:text=Pass%20rates%20for%20SQE1%20overall,(both%20FLK1%20and%20FLK2). How are people...
  5. WillKitchen

    Badly written SQE questions

    Is anyone else finding practice SQE questions that are badly written and omitting key information necessary in order to make a reasonable judgement, even in reputable legal education books? There is supposed to be a level of ambiguity in the possible answers that is designed to test our...
  6. WillKitchen

    Multiple TC offers?

    I have a question for people who received more than one offer for a training contract: How did you make the decision about which firm’s offer you would accept which which you would turn down? Of course, everyone’s priorities will be different, and we may look for different things from a TC...
  7. WillKitchen

    Introduction - career changer (former UK university lecturer)

    Hi everyone, My name is Will and I am a career changer moving into law after seven years as an Associate Lecturer at several different UK universities (Southampton, Chichester, AUB). I have published four books with Bloomsbury and EUP, including my most recent: Culture, Capital and Carnival...

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