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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andrei Radu" data-source="post: 184526" data-attributes="member: 36777">Hi [USER=24536]@j3llyfish[/USER] and first of all congrats on your first post - that's always the hardest <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />! As for your question, the short answer is no, it is unlikely that this will have any negative effects on your chances of securing a TC at a commercial law firm. If anything, it will be helpful in that you will have strong experience to motivate your why law reasoning - which you can then supplement with other experiences for the why commerce part. As you also mentioned, you can also gain many transferrable skills. I would also argue that this will enable to tell a more compelling why commercial law story, as you will be able to explain how you have explored other fields as well and thus are in a position to make a more informed judgement. The only caveat to this is that the non-commercial legal experience might be something you could be asked a lot about in the interviews, in particular as to why you are trying to move to a different field and what about the family law working experience is different from commercial law. As such, I would advise you to prepare a really convincing answer for that. It will also be useful if you can get some experience with commercial law before through law firms events and Forage Virtual Internships.</blockquote>

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