Magic Circle Law - Oxbridge or bust?

Just to add another dimension to the debate: what about if your undergrad is from a fairly good uni (check my spoiler for examples, the big boys rejected me lol) but your postgrad is oxbridge? How would that affect your chances of a top chambers? Also, do Solicitors generally do postgrad? or is it more a barristers option due to the more academic nature of their job?

This story is true, he is at my college right now. He is one of the people I respect the most of all the people I've ever met, and he performed the best out of all the law freshers in his mocks - all 4 of the others went to top public schools (St Pauls etc). S&S are paying his way through Cambridge but boy does he deserve it.

Surely they could have done that once he had attained a degree or even in his second year, the fact that they offered him a TC upon admissions is quite atrocious, how would they know whether he got a 1st or a 3rd at the end?

Just to add another dimension to the debate: what about if your undergrad is from a fairly good uni (check my spoiler for examples, the big boys rejected me lol) but your postgrad is oxbridge? How would that affect your chances of a top chambers? Also, do Solicitors generally do postgrad? or is it more a barristers option due to the more academic nature of their job?

It's conditional on him getting a 2.i, but if anyone at Clare is getting a first this year it's him.

So AAA at A-level for him is enough to get him a TC and for the likes of us it is a 1st or a 2.1, then a vac scheme maybe, then assessments of all sorts before a TC interview.

Unfair isn't it?

He did outcompete thousands of people to get it in the first place, and it makes perfect business sense to lure him in early, given how brilliant he is.

The West Wing, you seem to be orgasmic about this person. Have you slept with him yet?

The West Wing is either their friend or that person himself, its absolute tosh if you were to tell me that someone getting TC at the age of 17/18 is business sense, its crap. He might have been brilliant at law, politics which he did at A-level, these subjects are deemed some of the easiest compared to chemistry and physics.

If a TC is decided on getting AAA, then what's the point of him going to Cambridge and subsequently studying law?

even if IP, personal injury, and medical malpractice are the areas I want to specialize in?

I'd like to work in a MC firm, or if not, a SC firm that specializes in IP such as Bird & Bird.

He asked where your evidence was in respect to the law firms; MC or anywhere else. You haven't provided any.

So in gaining a TC, LSE>UCL>KCL?

I've heard that KCL is better for IP than LSE, but I don't see it as a module offered in undergrad...Should I firm LSE [if I get the offer], even if IP, personal injury, and medical malpractice are the areas I want to specialize in?

I'd like to work in a MC firm, or if not, a SC firm that specializes in IP such as Bird & Bird.

Just so you know, I'm a KCL Law undergrad and I'm doing IP this year so the uni definitely does offer it.

Haha IP wasn't in the list of modules in their prospectus. Thanks a lot for telling me.

To you and all of those who ask for proof I now provide it Blackstone Chambers:
Both heads of Chambers were educated at Cambridge.
Of the 31 QC’s 26 of them were at one stage educated at an Oxbridge college and 5 unknown or at another university.
The chambers have 45 juniors with 42 educated at an Oxbridge college, and 3 at another university.
That makes 87.179% of the tennants coming from Oxbridge.
But if you don’t believe me go on the link and click on one of the several tenants to view their – dare I say- ‘stats’:
http://www.blackstonechambers.com/people/barristers/index.html

With respect mate, are you special?

You've been asked three times for evidence from law firms, not chambers. In fact, we have explicitly said 'not chambers'.

Still, if you did that research yourself, though not requested: hats off to you! Nice work!

With respect mate, are you special?

You've been asked three times for evidence from law firms, not chambers. In fact, we have explicitly said 'not chambers'.

Still, if you did that research yourself, though not requested: hats off to you! Nice work!