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After graduation - SQE, LPC, paralegal, or something else?
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<blockquote data-quote="pfoapplicant" data-source="post: 138487" data-attributes="member: 8993"><p>Hi all,</p><p></p><p>I'm a UK student coming towards the end of the third year of my Law degree at Cambridge; I'm predicted to be on the borderline between a high 2:1 and a First. Ultimately, I'm looking to work towards getting a TC at a commercial law firm in London.</p><p>Unfortunately, I haven't got any training contracts lined up - none of my applications this year were successful, and the sum total of my legal work experience is a two-week vacation scheme at Sidley Austin last year.</p><p></p><p>I've been considering my options following graduation, and there are a couple of questions which come to mind (on which I'd really appreciate whatever advice anyone has!)</p><p></p><p>1. Do you think it's worth self-funding the SQE/LPC, or would it be better getting work experience (as, say, a paralegal), and then using that to get a TC through which I won't have to fund the SQE/LPC? I'm not entirely sure whether being a paralegal (without first doing the SQE/LPC) would be viable given my relative lack of work experience; on the flipside, I'm not sure whether doing the SQE/LPC really progresses me that far along the road to a TC - I suppose what I'm trying to ask is what do you think would be the most productive way to spend the year post-graduation (i.e. what course of action do you think is least likely to result in a wasted year?) - would self-funding the SQE/LPC basically just be spending a lot of money for something with not much added value?</p><p></p><p>2. What do you think is the better option between the SQE and the LPC? I know there's been a lot of criticism levelled at the SQE; I'm not sure what the trade-off is between, on one hand, the relatively tried-and-tested nature of the LPC (combined with the potentially conservative attitudes of some people making hiring decisions at law firms), and on the other, the fact that the LPC is gradually being phased out, and so the SQE may well become the increasingly better option over the next few years (I believe that [USER=2672]@Jessica Booker[/USER] has placed at a lot of emphasis on the latter!), perhaps leaving the LPC to become more and more obsolete in the eyes of law firms.</p><p></p><p>Any advice would be really gratefully appreciated - thank you so much! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pfoapplicant, post: 138487, member: 8993"] Hi all, I'm a UK student coming towards the end of the third year of my Law degree at Cambridge; I'm predicted to be on the borderline between a high 2:1 and a First. Ultimately, I'm looking to work towards getting a TC at a commercial law firm in London. Unfortunately, I haven't got any training contracts lined up - none of my applications this year were successful, and the sum total of my legal work experience is a two-week vacation scheme at Sidley Austin last year. I've been considering my options following graduation, and there are a couple of questions which come to mind (on which I'd really appreciate whatever advice anyone has!) 1. Do you think it's worth self-funding the SQE/LPC, or would it be better getting work experience (as, say, a paralegal), and then using that to get a TC through which I won't have to fund the SQE/LPC? I'm not entirely sure whether being a paralegal (without first doing the SQE/LPC) would be viable given my relative lack of work experience; on the flipside, I'm not sure whether doing the SQE/LPC really progresses me that far along the road to a TC - I suppose what I'm trying to ask is what do you think would be the most productive way to spend the year post-graduation (i.e. what course of action do you think is least likely to result in a wasted year?) - would self-funding the SQE/LPC basically just be spending a lot of money for something with not much added value? 2. What do you think is the better option between the SQE and the LPC? I know there's been a lot of criticism levelled at the SQE; I'm not sure what the trade-off is between, on one hand, the relatively tried-and-tested nature of the LPC (combined with the potentially conservative attitudes of some people making hiring decisions at law firms), and on the other, the fact that the LPC is gradually being phased out, and so the SQE may well become the increasingly better option over the next few years (I believe that [USER=2672]@Jessica Booker[/USER] has placed at a lot of emphasis on the latter!), perhaps leaving the LPC to become more and more obsolete in the eyes of law firms. Any advice would be really gratefully appreciated - thank you so much! :) [/QUOTE]
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