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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TCinpipeline" data-source="post: 101111" data-attributes="member: 17355">Hi - I have been interviewing clients on their legal queries and drafting legal advice for pro bono legal advice clinic for over a year. Do I need to continue doing this to showcase dealing with clients and providing legal advice in my applications until I get a training contract (whenever that may be)? Although some legal queries are somewhat different, I’m getting to a stage I am not learning anything new. We are informed it’s important to get legal work experience but as it’s hard to get eg on vacation schemes will I stand out in getting a training contract if I continue doing it long term? One can view it that I should be able to stop doing it and be able to still showcase it 6 months/a year down the line due to the length of time I’ve done it for like any job experience. Or should I now be considering finding different legal work experience to add to my CV/applications?The confusion I have is the same for other elements of showcasing experience such as being a school governor which I did about 5 years ago. Surely it cancels out a lot of hard work of undergoing different voluntary experience I have gained over the years such as this and working for RSPCA if I can’t mention it just because it is not “recent”. I have heard this mentioned from recruiters that you don’t need to mention that job as it’s years ago.  Why can my interest not lie still in working for a law firm that does very well in acting for schools and other institutions in its practice area due to the school governor experience I undertook? I am obviously not going to apply to do another school governor seat just to show my interest in this practice area when applying. So can I still show this in an application without it being discounted from not being recent? I do not think all experience should be recent otherwise they are preventing candidates especially mature ones like myself from presenting themselves as being well rounded and having “life experience.</blockquote>

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