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<blockquote data-quote="Jane Smith" data-source="post: 112038" data-attributes="member: 7481"><p>I do not think it will matter and you should just do the resits, pass them and forget about those modules - they are not very important and I would be surprised if every City firm had a policy on a failure of one of those ones. I agree with the advice above that before applying to a firm email them to ask their LPC requirements, however, so you do not waste your time on any firm which might have 100% pass policy. If you obtain a job as a paralegal job after the LPC they will be more interested in how you do on the job and that in everything else you have really good marks so far. In fact in my day on the solicitors' Finals course (before the LPC) we had no skills subjects (although we did have accounts - I even remember the textbook which was read - Halberstadt) and it was thought that during your 2 years of a training contract you could learn skills of interviewing etc.</p><p></p><p>I would stick with the city electives. Just focus on how well you have done to date and I am sure there will be firms in the City who will have no problems with it. Also even with mid sized firms those City electives are fine. My two solicitor daughters, one of whom was sponsored by her law firm (who required those options) both did your chosen electives. I am only on this website because my twin sons are both on the LPC at the moment (not with UoL) and I was checking something (I am a solicitor too in London). Just in case of use, my sons about to start BPP electives in private acquisitions, commercial and IP (which at BPP but not UoL is one elective) and employment law which we thought was a reasonable mix between City and commercial law (but not high street). If you do think you might end up at a mid range commercial firm or in-house may be private acquisitions, commercial and intellectual property would be good, but it sounds like you want to go into big City firms and therefore I would stick with your current choices.</p><p></p><p>BPP does all the electives this term unlike UoL (one of my sons finished his last thing on Friday afternoon - worst slot of the week for Interviewing I&A although I think it went okay). We have certainly taken the view at home that if anything is failed (hopefully not but you never know) then do the resit and go from there. (BPP resits are just about all in August and no BPP marks are out yet for this year's work.)</p><p></p><p>By the way back in the olden days I went from a medium sized, but well respected, London firm to what was then a top 3 firm when I qualified. That was very rare, but not impossible then and it was, in part, because I had done a whole year's course in my LLB of a particular specialism of that City department and had won the university prize in it. In other words it can be a bit random why someone is hired on qualification. However I agree with the comments of others above that that is an unusual and not easy move - from medium London firm to top firm, even then in the past. Other people I know have been at medium sized and even regional firms that have moved via mergers and other changes up and up to bigger firms and moved in that way, although I accept that is not very common.</p><p></p><p>The main advice I have is do not lose heart. I wasn't kept on after my training contract which as very surprising for me, but gained offers from 3 much bigger better firms immediately which was very satisfying. Things go wrong in life, even very unfairly, and it is more how able you are to dust yourself down and just get on with it that counts.</p><p></p><p>I do not know if there is a right of appeal at UoL or you can ask them just to check your marks were added up correctly but as there were 3 exams which were not a pass perhaps that is pointless as it was not one weird outlier of an exam.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jane Smith, post: 112038, member: 7481"] I do not think it will matter and you should just do the resits, pass them and forget about those modules - they are not very important and I would be surprised if every City firm had a policy on a failure of one of those ones. I agree with the advice above that before applying to a firm email them to ask their LPC requirements, however, so you do not waste your time on any firm which might have 100% pass policy. If you obtain a job as a paralegal job after the LPC they will be more interested in how you do on the job and that in everything else you have really good marks so far. In fact in my day on the solicitors' Finals course (before the LPC) we had no skills subjects (although we did have accounts - I even remember the textbook which was read - Halberstadt) and it was thought that during your 2 years of a training contract you could learn skills of interviewing etc. I would stick with the city electives. Just focus on how well you have done to date and I am sure there will be firms in the City who will have no problems with it. Also even with mid sized firms those City electives are fine. My two solicitor daughters, one of whom was sponsored by her law firm (who required those options) both did your chosen electives. I am only on this website because my twin sons are both on the LPC at the moment (not with UoL) and I was checking something (I am a solicitor too in London). Just in case of use, my sons about to start BPP electives in private acquisitions, commercial and IP (which at BPP but not UoL is one elective) and employment law which we thought was a reasonable mix between City and commercial law (but not high street). If you do think you might end up at a mid range commercial firm or in-house may be private acquisitions, commercial and intellectual property would be good, but it sounds like you want to go into big City firms and therefore I would stick with your current choices. BPP does all the electives this term unlike UoL (one of my sons finished his last thing on Friday afternoon - worst slot of the week for Interviewing I&A although I think it went okay). We have certainly taken the view at home that if anything is failed (hopefully not but you never know) then do the resit and go from there. (BPP resits are just about all in August and no BPP marks are out yet for this year's work.) By the way back in the olden days I went from a medium sized, but well respected, London firm to what was then a top 3 firm when I qualified. That was very rare, but not impossible then and it was, in part, because I had done a whole year's course in my LLB of a particular specialism of that City department and had won the university prize in it. In other words it can be a bit random why someone is hired on qualification. However I agree with the comments of others above that that is an unusual and not easy move - from medium London firm to top firm, even then in the past. Other people I know have been at medium sized and even regional firms that have moved via mergers and other changes up and up to bigger firms and moved in that way, although I accept that is not very common. The main advice I have is do not lose heart. I wasn't kept on after my training contract which as very surprising for me, but gained offers from 3 much bigger better firms immediately which was very satisfying. Things go wrong in life, even very unfairly, and it is more how able you are to dust yourself down and just get on with it that counts. I do not know if there is a right of appeal at UoL or you can ask them just to check your marks were added up correctly but as there were 3 exams which were not a pass perhaps that is pointless as it was not one weird outlier of an exam. [/QUOTE]
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