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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jane Smith" data-source="post: 96827" data-attributes="member: 7481">I don't think the different career for 10 years and then try again is worth the waste of time that might be in terms of getting on with your life and career. Perhaps try for smaller or non-London firms with commercial law departments and try to move through those kinds of firms as a qualified solicitor into bigger firms (although I do accept it is much easier in law to move "down" in terms of huge good firm down to easier to get into one as your career goes on than to move up to the bigger ones later, although if you can start in a really good firm that is a brilliant start but that is not possible for everyone).I am an older lawyer and I do know people who have qualified in one firm that is not a top city one and then just been really good at the job and done a series of moves (even if not to Clifford Chance type firms but to good London firms) or were with a regional firm that merged into a London one over the years or did well in a smaller one, built up clients and moved to a bigger firm. In other words they did not follow the traditional route into a better firm.  Even ancient I who qualified at a medium sized London commercial firm (after 139 applications and 25 interviews for TCs back in the day... during my law degree)  as soon as I qualified moved to one of the best firms in London as an NQ. So in a sense I went that route from worse to better,  albeit I did not start in the regions in a smaller commercial firm but started in London.</blockquote>

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