How important are placement years in LLB
Hi,
I have offer from Durham and QMUL . I have noted that, although Durham ranks better than QMUL, there is a placement year option in QUML. As training contracts are hard to get by, would placement experience make it easier to get into training contracts? I see lots of other non ruseel uni offering LLB with placement too, so I was wondering if that is some thing to that doesn't matter a lot! Greatful if any LLB graduates can give an advice.Thx
I have offer from Durham and QMUL . I have noted that, although Durham ranks better than QMUL, there is a placement year option in QUML. As training contracts are hard to get by, would placement experience make it easier to get into training contracts? I see lots of other non ruseel uni offering LLB with placement too, so I was wondering if that is some thing to that doesn't matter a lot! Greatful if any LLB graduates can give an advice.Thx
Reply 1
Original post by ayaanshareef
Hi,
I have offer from Durham and QMUL . I have noted that, although Durham ranks better than QMUL, there is a placement year option in QUML. As training contracts are hard to get by, would placement experience make it easier to get into training contracts? I see lots of other non ruseel uni offering LLB with placement too, so I was wondering if that is some thing to that doesn't matter a lot! Greatful if any LLB graduates can give an advice.Thx
I have offer from Durham and QMUL . I have noted that, although Durham ranks better than QMUL, there is a placement year option in QUML. As training contracts are hard to get by, would placement experience make it easier to get into training contracts? I see lots of other non ruseel uni offering LLB with placement too, so I was wondering if that is some thing to that doesn't matter a lot! Greatful if any LLB graduates can give an advice.Thx
Not that important in my opinion. Looks good on the CV, but more importantly will be your academics, law related extra curricular activities and how you come across at interview. Getting an internship at a a leading law firm over the holidays in your second year will likely have more benefit than a 1 year placement.
Reply 2
QMUL's website is very vague on what the placements involve. I wonder if the students get to do anything other than the most basic paralegal work. A year spent in a basement room compiling and photocopying litigation bundles and transaction bibles would be of little benefit to anyone except the law firm which gets grunt work done on the cheap.
Reply 3
Original post by Stiffy Byng
QMUL's website is very vague on what the placements involve. I wonder if the students get to do anything other than the most basic paralegal work. A year spent in a basement room compiling and photocopying litigation bundles and transaction bibles would be of little benefit to anyone except the law firm which gets grunt work done on the cheap.
Yes agreed
Original post by Stiffy Byng
QMUL's website is very vague on what the placements involve. I wonder if the students get to do anything other than the most basic paralegal work. A year spent in a basement room compiling and photocopying litigation bundles and transaction bibles would be of little benefit to anyone except the law firm which gets grunt work done on the cheap.
You missed out the joys of pagination. Do you remember those handheld paginators for numbering Court bundles and DD files? It was all fine until you realised you had missed a page and everything was out of sync.
Reply 5
Original post by chalks
You missed out the joys of pagination. Do you remember those handheld paginators for numbering Court bundles and DD files? It was all fine until you realised you had missed a page and everything was out of sync.
Even better was sending a fax of a 200 page contract to 50 recipients at midnight. Young lawyers today don’t know what they are missing.
On a slightly more serious note, some past students provide their experiences here:
https://www.qmul.ac.uk/law/undergraduate/courses/m130-law-in-practice/student-experience/
Given the course is only open to 10 students per year, and the employers seem pretty good (Reed Smith, Simmons, Paul Hastings etc), I actually think it's a pretty interesting option.
https://www.qmul.ac.uk/law/undergraduate/courses/m130-law-in-practice/student-experience/
Given the course is only open to 10 students per year, and the employers seem pretty good (Reed Smith, Simmons, Paul Hastings etc), I actually think it's a pretty interesting option.
Reply 7
Original post by chalks
You missed out the joys of pagination. Do you remember those handheld paginators for numbering Court bundles and DD files? It was all fine until you realised you had missed a page and everything was out of sync.
I didn't have to paginate bundles, but as a pupil barrister I recall being put in charge of seventy volumes of the law reports (that was when authorities were cited from books, not copies, or e-bundles) for a hearing in Chandler v Church, a huge fraud case in the Chancery Division. The books had to be carted about and arranged in order, which would not have been so bad had the venue of the hearing not been changed twice in half an hour.
BTW, AI thinks that the case was "a dispute about the ownership of a church". AI is stupid.
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