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<blockquote data-quote="Jessica Booker" data-source="post: 204486" data-attributes="member: 2672">In the vast majority of cases, no one is going to care. They are going to look at your training contract much more closely.If the difference is between working in your current role and not, I don't think this is going to be a big issue. If you were saying you wanted to go into a very competitive area of law like international arbitration as a qualified lawyer and you were working in international arbitration now, then I might be saying something slightly different as that type of direct experience could 1) help you get an international arbitration seat as a trainee and 2) help your qualification chances into that area as you would have more experience in the field.But given this is an admin role unrelated to law, I really don't think this is an issue. Plus you could find other forms of employment instead or even fill your time with things like travelling, volunteering. I think it is important to do something with any long period of time out (like a year) but that does not have to be work and that does not have to be one thing either.Ultimately your mental health is not worth risking. The SQE will be a tough period anyway and going into that mentally fresh and not exhausted/stressed is probably a good idea anyway.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jessica Booker, post: 204486, member: 2672"] In the vast majority of cases, no one is going to care. They are going to look at your training contract much more closely. If the difference is between working in your current role and not, I don't think this is going to be a big issue. If you were saying you wanted to go into a very competitive area of law like international arbitration as a qualified lawyer and you were working in international arbitration now, then I might be saying something slightly different as that type of direct experience could 1) help you get an international arbitration seat as a trainee and 2) help your qualification chances into that area as you would have more experience in the field. But given this is an admin role unrelated to law, I really don't think this is an issue. Plus you could find other forms of employment instead or even fill your time with things like travelling, volunteering. I think it is important to do something with any long period of time out (like a year) but that does not have to be work and that does not have to be one thing either. Ultimately your mental health is not worth risking. The SQE will be a tough period anyway and going into that mentally fresh and not exhausted/stressed is probably a good idea anyway. [/QUOTE]

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