any international students?

im an international student too. Got here from canada a week ago. ur questions are great and hopefully someone would give a reply.

Hello. I'm an international student and just graduated with my law degree. I accepted a deferred training contract with DLA Piper for 2015 entry, currently on a voluntary gap year where I'm working with the foreign office. I got 8 Vacation Scheme offers with law firms, of which I did 5. I also got 12 mini-pupillage offers of which I did 6.

Any other questions?

Yeah Canada! Same here. Did you apply to any schools yet? I applied to Leeds, Queen Mary, Leicester, Westminster, and Sussex. Have only been offered a spot in the graduate-entry LLB at sussex so far. I chose them based on location and rank in the university tables.


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Congrats man, sounds like you did well. Which law school did you attend. Also if you don't mind me asking, where are you from and do you find employers may be less likely to hire non UK applicants?

Hello!

I attended the London School of Economics for a 3-year LLB in Laws. I'm from India. Being international means that there are only a certain kind of law firms you can apply to i.e. top, commercial firms in London who are willing to sponsor us. That limits the pool and heightens the competition a great, great deal. I found that employers were more than willing to hire internationals as long as they were competent of course. I find there were some people on my course who cried 'racism' and claimed they weren't getting interviews because they were internationals, none of them seemed particularly willing to acknowledge the fact that they had low 2.1 averages (or worse) in their degrees and we were in the midst of an economic crisis.

thanks for the information. I'm from Canada but I am lucky enough to have an EU citizenship so I don't need to get sponsored. I was more worried about inherent bias against foreign students.

Also, you obviously went to a top school. Do you find it is possible to get hired by top firms if you went to say, a Russel group school but not to oxbridge, lse etc.

thanks again for all your help.

There is no inherent bias against foreign students, especially not at the top end firms who frequently deal with international clients and must employ international lawyers for their dealings, so you have nothing to worry about!

Oddly enough I had a discussion along the lines of your second query just yesterday, that whether you don't go to a top uni re: Oxbridge, how much of a difference that makes, if any at all. You might be interested in reading this.

Thanks! Interesting thread, defintly was good to ha e those perspectives.

I'll ask you one last question then I'll leave you alone haha. What extracurriculars, languages skills etc do the top law firms look for. Obviosily it varies, but if you could give me some insight it would be much appreciated.

Haven't applied to any yet, I probably will only next year. Are you going to try to get work in the UK or coke back to Canada. Good luck with the rest of your applications.