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<blockquote data-quote="George Maxwell" data-source="post: 90463" data-attributes="member: 17165"><p>Hi [USER=17610]@Aleksandar[/USER],</p><p></p><p>Thank you for reaching out and sharing your story with the forum! It is great to meet you. Congratulations on your fantastic university grades.</p><p></p><p>I found your post inspiring. It sounds like you are someone who went through a difficult time during your A-levels, and as a result, your grades suffered. Your determination to succeed is obvious and apparent. This is exactly the sort of reaction that commercial firms will look for in future trainees (i.e., resilient individuals who are highly-motivated).</p><p></p><p>With regards to your plan, there is no 'right' answer on this, nor is there a necessarily clear answer on what exactly firms will be looking for, nor what the 'best' candidate looks like. Many firms will also take mitigating circumstances seriously and some do not take school grades into account at all(!). However, in my opinion, focusing on your university course for now does sound like a good plan.</p><p></p><p>However, make sure that you are putting time aside for other things. No one can work all the time with no break. It just is not efficient to do so and I worry that it may risk burnout. Firms, from my experience, also look for people with interests that are external to law.</p><p></p><p>I am tagging [USER=2672]@Jessica Booker[/USER] here for her thoughts on the utility of doing a PhD.</p><p></p><p>Please do reach out if you would like any further advice or help with your applications!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="George Maxwell, post: 90463, member: 17165"] Hi [USER=17610]@Aleksandar[/USER], Thank you for reaching out and sharing your story with the forum! It is great to meet you. Congratulations on your fantastic university grades. I found your post inspiring. It sounds like you are someone who went through a difficult time during your A-levels, and as a result, your grades suffered. Your determination to succeed is obvious and apparent. This is exactly the sort of reaction that commercial firms will look for in future trainees (i.e., resilient individuals who are highly-motivated). With regards to your plan, there is no 'right' answer on this, nor is there a necessarily clear answer on what exactly firms will be looking for, nor what the 'best' candidate looks like. Many firms will also take mitigating circumstances seriously and some do not take school grades into account at all(!). However, in my opinion, focusing on your university course for now does sound like a good plan. However, make sure that you are putting time aside for other things. No one can work all the time with no break. It just is not efficient to do so and I worry that it may risk burnout. Firms, from my experience, also look for people with interests that are external to law. I am tagging [USER=2672]@Jessica Booker[/USER] here for her thoughts on the utility of doing a PhD. Please do reach out if you would like any further advice or help with your applications! [/QUOTE]
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