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Legal Tech v Training Contract
I wouldn't do it because I'm too risk averse. From what I can tell, a legaltech job shares many common features with that of a software engineer, which has a very different work life balance and much less stability. It doesn't help that most of the legaltech opportunities I've heard of are in...- JohanGRK
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General Discussion Thread 2020-21
I agree with the second and third paras, but they didn't correspond to my experience (I can't speak to Rhiannon or whisperingrock!). My point was that the firms in my examples were clearly the ones that had messed up and admitted to doing so. If it has happened to me as often as it has, there's...- JohanGRK
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General Discussion Thread 2020-21
I must admit that I enjoyed the direction this thread took. Not many threads like it on TCLA! Going back to the core issue, I think that it's well worth hitting up the law firm if you're getting rejected so soon and without a clear reason as to why this may possibly be the case (e.g. them...- JohanGRK
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why do you actually want to work in commercial law? (honest)
It was kind of the norm for people in my course at uni. That or the Bar. I really don't want to become a barrister and the thought of doing medium-effort work for long hours and good pay seemed great. I would have equally happily gone into strategy/management consulting or some banking...- JohanGRK
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Thoughts about the BPP controversy?
Thank you for the update. The reliance on force majeure is what I expected. Not great from a PR standpoint though, given that it's an excuse and not a justification. I wonder if their new cohort has been alerted as to the possibility of substandard teaching, class sizes, exam hosting, etc. in...- JohanGRK
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Thoughts about the BPP controversy?
That would be great, thank you :)- JohanGRK
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Thoughts about the BPP controversy?
Thank you for your reply! Your experience seems to be on all fours with the first complaint. I do hope that Learning Support get their sh*t together given how the students they're responsible for are sometimes the most vulnerable to disruption etc. Oh no! That's worrying for me personally...- JohanGRK
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Thoughts about the BPP controversy?
Ha! I am. I got banned about a year ago because of the way that forum deals with its cautions/warnings - they take months to disappear and build up over time. I think that I got banned after a bunch of heated posts in response to some troll all got warned on the same day. TheStudentRoom's system...- JohanGRK
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Thoughts about the BPP controversy?
Just wanted to bump this thread with two things (if that's okay) Firstly, a couple of students got in touch with me through private messages on this forum to confirm some of the issues in the complaint. I wanted to thank them for confirming some of my fears. It's a shame that the closeness of...- JohanGRK
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How will the SQE promote diversity?
Thanks for the detailed reply!- JohanGRK
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How will the SQE promote diversity?
Interesting post, thank you The SRA and others were making quite a fuss about diversity as late as July this year, which is probably to be expected (https://www.sra.org.uk/sra/news/press/sqe-for-diversity/). Though I would hope that they would be genuine about it instead of using it as a...- JohanGRK
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How will the SQE promote diversity?
The link I had bookmarked for this no longer works... so I'm guessing that whoever gave the "£11k @ Kaplan" figure realised that it was wrong. My bad. I came up with two more arguments about diversity: 1. Lack of need to do GDL + LPC --> lowering the cost by £9k + living costs for non-law...- JohanGRK
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How will the SQE promote diversity?
Been reading up about the SQE in the past few days. It has been claimed that one of the benefits of the SQE is widening access to the profession, but it doesn't seem like this is the case? I was hoping for some further insight/thoughts from the kind people of TCLA in case I'm missing...- JohanGRK
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Thoughts about the BPP controversy?
Been seeing a bunch of articles on it this week. Was wondering if any users on the site can confirm or deny these claims from personal experience? :) e.g. https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/students-demand-refund-bpps-deeply-unsatisfactory-virus-response...- JohanGRK
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Baker McKenzie
Friend of mine received a rejection 2 hours ago.- JohanGRK
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Why a higher ratio of fee earner to partner hours results in a higher profitability?
I always assumed that low-leverage (i.e. fewer associates for each partner) was the more profitable model because it: a) cut down on the biggest source of costs for a law firm (its labour) and b) resulted in trainees/associates being overworked (given the need to cover more junior tasks in...- JohanGRK
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