SQE essentials for practice at BPP

[ZC]

Hi, I have to choose my essentials for practice pathway for the SQE LLM (I'm self-funding). BPP give you 3 options: commercial, corporate and general pathways.

Does anyone who secured a training contract while sulf-funding have any advice for choosing a pathway? Or, if one is preferred/used by most city law firms for their future trainees?

I'm going to choose between the commercial and corporate pathways - leaning towards corporate right now but I'm still unsure... Essentially, will a law firm consider only students who chose the commercial pathway for training contracts as that's what they make their future trainees do at BPP?

Should I reach out to grad rec at law firms I'm interested in applying to and ask them if they have a preference/requirement? I can't find much information online so anything would be helpful!

 

[Jessica Booker]

Hi, I have to choose my essentials for practice pathway for the SQE LLM (I'm self-funding). BPP give you 3 options: commercial, corporate and general pathways.

Does anyone who secured a training contract while sulf-funding have any advice for choosing a pathway? Or, if one is preferred/used by most city law firms for their future trainees?

I'm going to choose between the commercial and corporate pathways - leaning towards corporate right now but I'm still unsure... Essentially, will a law firm consider only students who chose the commercial pathway for training contracts as that's what they make their future trainees do at BPP?

Should I reach out to grad rec at law firms I'm interested in applying to and ask them if they have a preference/requirement? I can't find much information online so anything would be helpful!

Firms will not only select people from a specific pathway if they have self-funded in the same way they wouldn't stop people from applying who had done an SQE prep course with another provider. Therefore, I would choose the pathway that works best for you in terms of your interests/career aspirations.

I don't think you need to contact GR teams about this as 99% of the time their response is going to be the same as mine above.