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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TCLA Community Assistant" data-source="post: 210778" data-attributes="member: 2672">If you are at a SC firm, it is likely your GDL is sponsored and that also you have received a maintenance grant from the firm as well as having your GDL fees covered. If this is the case, I suspect this is over £25,000 worth of funding.Repaying that for most people is going to be tricky.Some people assume that a new firm would pay this for you, but this just doesn’t happen for a number of reasons below:1) the new firm is not going to pay a full maintenance grant for something that you have already started or completed. Maintenance grants are not given retrospectively and at best are given on a pro data basis based on how far through the course you are.2) the invoice for the GDL course fees is in your SC firm’s name, not yours. So you haven’t got any evidence of incurring the costs of it. You’d effectively have to show that your costs were incurred by repaying the SC firm, which would then make it obvious to the new firm you had reneged an offer.3) reneging an offer after going into a contract with a firm and taking considerable financial support is a major red flag to any new firm - they will be concerned you would do the same to them.This is why if you are going to renege an offer it’s always best to do so before you have taken any financial support or started the onboarding process for law school.By trying to upgrade an offer now, you’d also likely be 1-2 years behind where you are now. Many would argue you could qualify by the time you’d start a TC with another firm. I think most people would say it is probably just worthwhile trying to move upon qualification now rather than delaying your career by a couple of years. By September 2028, you could be earning nearly three times the amount as an NQ that you could be earning just staring a TC.I also don’t think it is as simple as knowing you could get a TC with a more prestigious firm. There would be a load of questions potentially around your candidacy and profile (especially if you haven’t pursued opportunities since you accepted your offer), which could question your motivations or at least identify you have had a TC in place and been sponsored. As [USER=36738]@Ram Sabaratnam[/USER] has said, vast majority of firms won’t touch people who have accepted a TC elsewhere when they have received financial sponsorship as they don’t see it as being ethical of stealing talent at that stage.If you are at a SC firm, your exit opportunities are actually okay. It will depend on the job market at the time of qualification and also where you want to qualify into, but as Ram has said, plenty of people move form SC firms to MC/US firms either upon qualification or at some level of PQE.However, there is no SRA restriction thanks to the model of QWE that allows you to work across four firms (which wasn’t the case under the old “period of recognised training” qualification system).</blockquote>

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