Depressed from clearing/dilemma

The partner in the next office had a son at university before he qualified as a solicitor. The one in the office beyond that has no degree. The solicitor two doors away in the opposite direction had kids doing GCSEs when he qualified. One of my partners at the other side of the building has an Ivy League education; one on the floor below has a degree, which to call it Mickey Mouse, would be insulting to Walt Disney.

And we have trainee solicitors from both UCL and Sheffield.

The partner in the next office had a son at university before he qualified as a solicitor. The one in the office beyond that has no degree. The solicitor two doors away in the opposite direction had kids doing GCSEs when he qualified. One of my partners at the other side of the building has an Ivy League education; one on the floor below has a degree, which to call it Mickey Mouse, would be insulting to Walt Disney.

And we have trainee solicitors from both UCL and Sheffield.

I want to apply to your firm!


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It isn't that unusual. At 20-21 it looks as though there is a single path to a legal career but not everybody can take the royal road and talented people get there by all manner of byways. In a firm of a reasonable size, there will be lawyers with many different backgrounds.

Just to add to that, who are the Freshfields trainees who get in without a 2:1? Don't believe me? It is there on their website.

http://www.freshfields.com/en/united_kingdom/careers/trainees/FAQ/#2

As for a training contract, there is something you might want to think about. We, and we are not the only ones, are seriously looking at recruiting trainees solely from our paralegals and only recruiting paralegals. If we do that, we probably will not care too much about whether they have done the LPC or whether they do it part-time while working for us.

Have you thought of making a sticky for the Law forum? (Or maybe you have already. I haven't looked- not my area.) It'd be really helpful.

The partner in the next office had a son at university before he qualified as a solicitor. The one in the office beyond that has no degree. The solicitor two doors away in the opposite direction had kids doing GCSEs when he qualified. One of my partners at the other side of the building has an Ivy League education; one on the floor below has a degree, which to call it Mickey Mouse, would be insulting to Walt Disney.

And we have trainee solicitors from both UCL and Sheffield.

Maybe one day

Doing this is a relief from what I am supposed to be doing. Doing a sticky feels like something on a "to do" list.

Hahaha thanks for putting it perspective! Good to know you take trainees from Sheffield too! I'm looking forward to going there now after this whole adjustment fiasco. What firm are you at if you don't mind me asking?

I refer to too many real people for that!

Haha I suspected so. Magic circle?

It isn't that unusual. At 20-21 it looks as though there is a single path to a legal career but not everybody can take the royal road and talented people get there by all manner of byways. In a firm of a reasonable size, there will be lawyers with many different backgrounds.

Just to add to that, who are the Freshfields trainees who get in without a 2:1? Don't believe me? It is there on their website.

http://www.freshfields.com/en/united_kingdom/careers/trainees/FAQ/#2

As for a training contract, there is something you might want to think about. We, and we are not the only ones, are seriously looking at recruiting trainees solely from our paralegals and only recruiting paralegals. If we do that, we probably will not care too much about whether they have done the LPC or whether they do it part-time while working for us.