Hi there,
I’m a career changer too, though came from children’s services. My route to the law has been highly unorthodox…! I have a TC for a firm beginning September 2022.
For what it’s worth here’s some advice..!
Play to your strengths. You might need to accept that magic circle firms aren’t...
Firm got back to me and said they’d pay. They also don’t care where I do my LPC and don’t care about electives “we see it as a chance for you to explore areas of the law you’re really interested in rather than feeling like you need to fit in with our objectives. We’re a full service firm so it’s...
There is a £5k grant!? So they pay the grant but then not the fees up front - at least according to the current terms. I’m going to call Monday and see if they’re willing to change since as you rightly state - unless you have lots of private wealth (or can get a postgrad loan) finding £18k all...
Without being indiscrete it’s a mid-sized London full-service firm. Top 100 not magic circle - more West End. I’m hoping it’ll be a case of “ok that’s not an ideal sitch for me - how about this instead”. I’m telling myself that it’s still a good problem to have as ultimately I have secured...
Thanks Matt - did that for the GDL (I did an LLM QLD) so - nope! I was under the impression firms just paid and naturally you were liable to pay back the fees if you failed or left or whatever… but not this way around!
Hi all,
I’ve just received my training contract offer to sign and it seems that although my firm will pay my LPC fees - it’s done retrospectively once I start in September 2022. I.e I need to foot the bill outright initially…
How common is this? I now find myself looking around for that spare...
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