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<blockquote data-quote="Jessica Booker" data-source="post: 99826" data-attributes="member: 2672"><p>A training contract isn’t necessarily sponsored. It is just a two year commitment from the employer to give you two years’ worth of work experience that will allow you to then qualify.</p><p></p><p>The City Consortium course is a bespoke course that has been designed for a handful of large commercial law firms. As I understand it, you can’t attend the course unless you have a training contract with one of the firms the course has been designed for.</p><p></p><p>Unfortunately there are two many variables that means there is not a set approach to sponsorship funding. For some firms will you never get any funding, even retrospectively. On the opposite end of the spectrum some firms will sponsor everything you could possibly need and pay for it directly, meaning you never have to pay a penny. In the middle are a whole range of different approaches, some where firms at the fees upfront, some where they will pay it retrospectively, and some where they</p><p></p><p>You could apply for training contracts ahead of the SQE if you find firms that will sponsor all aspects of your academic training.</p><p></p><p>It just sounds like they are unlikely to be firms you are interested in. </p><p></p><p>Your time to volunteer in clinics will be very limited as a lawyer. There will be some pro bono initiatives run by firms that will give you some exposure to this type of work (although likely to be broader than housing) but it won’t be your day job. Be mindful that in some areas of commercial law, your work could actually be doing everything against what you are looking for (eg building lots of unaffordable housing and gentrification of areas).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jessica Booker, post: 99826, member: 2672"] A training contract isn’t necessarily sponsored. It is just a two year commitment from the employer to give you two years’ worth of work experience that will allow you to then qualify. The City Consortium course is a bespoke course that has been designed for a handful of large commercial law firms. As I understand it, you can’t attend the course unless you have a training contract with one of the firms the course has been designed for. Unfortunately there are two many variables that means there is not a set approach to sponsorship funding. For some firms will you never get any funding, even retrospectively. On the opposite end of the spectrum some firms will sponsor everything you could possibly need and pay for it directly, meaning you never have to pay a penny. In the middle are a whole range of different approaches, some where firms at the fees upfront, some where they will pay it retrospectively, and some where they You could apply for training contracts ahead of the SQE if you find firms that will sponsor all aspects of your academic training. It just sounds like they are unlikely to be firms you are interested in. Your time to volunteer in clinics will be very limited as a lawyer. There will be some pro bono initiatives run by firms that will give you some exposure to this type of work (although likely to be broader than housing) but it won’t be your day job. Be mindful that in some areas of commercial law, your work could actually be doing everything against what you are looking for (eg building lots of unaffordable housing and gentrification of areas). [/QUOTE]
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