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Self-Fund GDL or wait a year?
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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Boden" data-source="post: 57343" data-attributes="member: 487"><p>Hi Conor,</p><p></p><p>To be honest I don't see a real issue with you deciding to self-fund the GDL as it means you will be using the time between now and September well and you will have one year less of exams/legal study to do! I'm currently doing the GDL at ULaw at the moment and whilst it is an intense course, the quality of teaching has been good and I've been enjoying it tbh (certainly appears to be going much better than the PGDL at BPP!).</p><p></p><p>As you say, hopefully by September relative normalcy will be starting to happen so I think getting experience then would put you in a good position.</p><p></p><p>I'll tag [USER=2672]@Jessica Booker[/USER] here as she knows far more about how the incoming SQE will impact you than I do but in short if you can afford it and don't have much else on at the moment I don't see why it's that bad an idea! Also if you get a training contract, a number of firms reimburse fees retrospectively so you may not even end up being out of pocket as it were.</p><p></p><p>Hope that helps,</p><p>Dan</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Daniel Boden, post: 57343, member: 487"] Hi Conor, To be honest I don't see a real issue with you deciding to self-fund the GDL as it means you will be using the time between now and September well and you will have one year less of exams/legal study to do! I'm currently doing the GDL at ULaw at the moment and whilst it is an intense course, the quality of teaching has been good and I've been enjoying it tbh (certainly appears to be going much better than the PGDL at BPP!). As you say, hopefully by September relative normalcy will be starting to happen so I think getting experience then would put you in a good position. I'll tag [USER=2672]@Jessica Booker[/USER] here as she knows far more about how the incoming SQE will impact you than I do but in short if you can afford it and don't have much else on at the moment I don't see why it's that bad an idea! Also if you get a training contract, a number of firms reimburse fees retrospectively so you may not even end up being out of pocket as it were. Hope that helps, Dan [/QUOTE]
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