Is it easier to become a barrister or solicitor?
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Re: Is it easier to become a barrister or solicitor?Sorry I LOL'ed. Good effort. I too, am bored of revsion.(Original post by Wildcard)
With the rise of arts students doing increasingly useless degrees, the supply of willing baristas has grown rapidly, and thus you're facing greater competition. Furthermore, in contrast to the hundreds of solicitor firms out there, baristas can only choose from one of the four Inns (Starbucks, Costa, Cafe Nero and - if you're very desperate - Coffee Republic).
Can you tell I'm incredibly bored of revising?
EDIT: I'm genuinely disappointed with myself. If I saw someone else post this, I'd groan, maybe even click the thumbs down, and yet I'm not deleting it because I fully deserve to be criticised
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Re: Is it easier to become a barrister or solicitor?(Original post by Wildcard)
With the rise of arts students doing increasingly useless degrees, the supply of willing baristas has grown rapidly, and thus you're facing greater competition. Furthermore, in contrast to the hundreds of solicitor firms out there, baristas can only choose from one of the four Inns (Starbucks, Costa, Cafe Nero and - if you're very desperate - Coffee Republic).
Can you tell I'm incredibly bored of revising?
EDIT: I'm genuinely disappointed with myself. If I saw someone else post this, I'd groan, maybe even click the thumbs down, and yet I'm not deleting it because I fully deserve to be criticised
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Re: Is it easier to become a barrister or solicitor?I'd totally be a member of Cafe Nero.(Original post by Wildcard)
With the rise of arts students doing increasingly useless degrees, the supply of willing baristas has grown rapidly, and thus you're facing greater competition. Furthermore, in contrast to the hundreds of solicitor firms out there, baristas can only choose from one of the four Inns (Starbucks, Costa, Cafe Nero and - if you're very desperate - Coffee Republic).
Can you tell I'm incredibly bored of revising?
EDIT: I'm genuinely disappointed with myself. If I saw someone else post this, I'd groan, maybe even click the thumbs down, and yet I'm not deleting it because I fully deserve to be criticised
What inns (of court) do you reckon each coffee shop corresponds to?
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Re: Is it easier to become a barrister or solicitor?You have no idea how long I spent trying to think of a coffee substitute for 'Court' so that I could make my Inns pun at least semi-passable. Mocha / moch-ourt was about the best I could do. Then I looked it up and found there was a type of coffee called Cortado, so 'Inns of Cortado' would be perfect, but has anybody even heard of that type of coffee?
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Re: Is it easier to become a barrister or solicitor?hahaha I see what you did there. I am bored of revising so decided to catch up on telly.(Original post by Wildcard)
With the rise of arts students doing increasingly useless degrees, the supply of willing baristas has grown rapidly, and thus you're facing greater competition. Furthermore, in contrast to the hundreds of solicitor firms out there, baristas can only choose from one of the four Inns (Starbucks, Costa, Cafe Nero and - if you're very desperate - Coffee Republic).
Can you tell I'm incredibly bored of revising?
EDIT: I'm genuinely disappointed with myself. If I saw someone else post this, I'd groan, maybe even click the thumbs down, and yet I'm not deleting it because I fully deserve to be criticised
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Re: Is it easier to become a barrister or solicitor?I'd agree that they're as difficult in different ways. I think that being a junior solicitor at a top city firm might be a bit more disheartening than being a junior barrister because you're working horrific hours but, unlike at the Bar, you aren't getting paid extra.(Original post by jjarvis)
Easier to get into, or easier to do? I'd agree with the first, not so sure about the latter--the skill sets are different and the requirements different. -
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Re: Is it easier to become a barrister or solicitor?Quite (although you dont even need to be a solicitor merely an agent of some sort). That is why I said higher rights in crime.(Original post by Crazy Jamie)
Just to add on to this, but it is also worth noting for the sake of completeness that you don't need higher rights to appear in Court and represent your client per se. Every solicitor has some rights of audience whether they have higher rights or not. As such even in practice areas such as civil you will find solicitors who are more than happy to deal with a Case Management Conference (CMC) rather than instruct a barrister, even if they ultimately will be instructing a barrister to handle the trial. So there is some scope for advocacy as a solicitor in most practice areas to one degree or another. -
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Re: Is it easier to become a barrister or solicitor?what?(Original post by pleb1)
I mean, this is just embarrassing. -
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Re: Is it easier to become a barrister or solicitor?good arts degrees aren't useless.(Original post by Wildcard)
With the rise of arts students doing increasingly useless degrees, the supply of willing baristas has grown rapidly, and thus you're facing greater competition. Furthermore, in contrast to the hundreds of solicitor firms out there, baristas can only choose from one of the four Inns (Starbucks, Costa, Cafe Nero and - if you're very desperate - Coffee Republic).
Can you tell I'm incredibly bored of revising?
EDIT: I'm genuinely disappointed with myself. If I saw someone else post this, I'd groan, maybe even click the thumbs down, and yet I'm not deleting it because I
fully deserve to be criticised
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Re: Is it easier to become a barrister or solicitor?To clarify, the quote I quoted is embarrassing/shaming/awkward for the poster.(Original post by littleone271)
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Re: Is it easier to become a barrister or solicitor?Mine is frankly stunning and only useful for impressing middle aged, middle class people at dinner.(Original post by see-are)
good arts degrees aren't useless. -
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Re: Is it easier to become a barrister or solicitor?you are probably a poor overall candidate despite your degree then...(Original post by pleb1)
Mine is frankly stunning and only useful for impressing middle aged, middle class people at dinner. -
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Re: Is it easier to become a barrister or solicitor?The quality/quantity of my TC offer(s) would suggest otherwise.(Original post by see-are)
you are probably a poor overall candidate despite your degree then...
Although my earlier remark was tinged with flippancy, I maintain that I am still a fairly useless being at this stage, compared to those with more technical degrees. -
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Re: Is it easier to become a barrister or solicitor?Technical degrees will have the edge over yours for technical jobs... why are you going for jobs like that?(Original post by pleb1)
The quality/quantity of my TC offer(s) would suggest otherwise.
Although my earlier remark was tinged with flippancy, I maintain that I am still a fairly useless being at this stage, compared to those with more technical degrees.
p.s I don't know what a TC is so... -
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Re: Is it easier to become a barrister or solicitor?Slow? Heh.(Original post by see-are)
I guess I'd have to say I don't know? ...
Are you slow?
I probably just don't know the abbreviation not the actual thing
If you don't know what a TC is, you really aren't qualified to comment, even if you want to go down the barrister route. It is not a little thing, it is extremely basic knowledge. Like I said, those who can offer anything credible know what it is. -
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Re: Is it easier to become a barrister or solicitor?lawyer is a general term for both solicitor and barrister.(Original post by Future_Dr)
What is the difference between a Lawyer, Solicitor, Barrister? It really puzzles me.
Solicitor- deals with any legal matter (usually it is specialised you have a property solicitor, family solicitor etc..) including conducting proceeding in court. They can now attend court and defend a client if they have higher rights of audience. They absolutely hate their jobs and fully depressed. The only profession in the world that needs to print out more papers than Asda cuts down trees in the amazon.
Barrister- specialises in legal proceedings, they are normally the ones in court doing the whole advocacy stuff and shoving their big fat jacket and idiotic dirty disgusting wigs about and are generally loners with big moobs.Last edited by The_Male_Melons; 28-03-2012 at 23:44. -
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Re: Is it easier to become a barrister or solicitor?Doesn't matter too much in your case, all will merrily sue you senseless in the future(Original post by Future_Dr)
What is the difference between a Lawyer, Solicitor, Barrister? It really puzzles me.
