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2nd year law student query on a legal career within the corporate world
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<blockquote data-quote="Jessica Booker" data-source="post: 90475" data-attributes="member: 2672"><p>Postgraduate study is not a requirement for the job and so rarely makes a candidate stand out. A masters can show your intellectual capabilities, especially if a firm is a little more sniffy about the university you attended (less likely if you are looking at MC firms though). But a PhD is exceptionally rare and usually only undertaken if you want a career in academia, not in commercial law.</p><p></p><p>Your dedication can be shown in many other ways, and many will be more practical than a masters or a PhD. There aren’t huge connections/correlations between academic law and working in a commercial law firm, and so firms won’t necessarily think that a PhD demonstrates this dedication. In some instances, it may make them question whether you are more interested in academic law.</p><p></p><p>The advice from most graduate recruiters will be to only pursue postgraduate study if it’s something you personally want to pursue - very few will recommend it from a “it will make your application stand out perspective”. The exceptions are if you are going into a niche area of law and your masters is aligned to that niche.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jessica Booker, post: 90475, member: 2672"] Postgraduate study is not a requirement for the job and so rarely makes a candidate stand out. A masters can show your intellectual capabilities, especially if a firm is a little more sniffy about the university you attended (less likely if you are looking at MC firms though). But a PhD is exceptionally rare and usually only undertaken if you want a career in academia, not in commercial law. Your dedication can be shown in many other ways, and many will be more practical than a masters or a PhD. There aren’t huge connections/correlations between academic law and working in a commercial law firm, and so firms won’t necessarily think that a PhD demonstrates this dedication. In some instances, it may make them question whether you are more interested in academic law. The advice from most graduate recruiters will be to only pursue postgraduate study if it’s something you personally want to pursue - very few will recommend it from a “it will make your application stand out perspective”. The exceptions are if you are going into a niche area of law and your masters is aligned to that niche. [/QUOTE]
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