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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jessica Booker" data-source="post: 181832" data-attributes="member: 2672">The SRA has no involvement with TC recruitment processes and does not state anything about not continuing. They withdrew from the code of best recruitment practice (which references this) in 2015. The Law Society does still support the voluntary code though (but this code is voluntary and many firms don’t stick to their commitments in the code too).1) It is possible to still apply but as soon as you receive any financial support from your TC firm, you should really be sticking to your TC firm. To me that is the point you are not going to be able to change without serious repercussions.2) There is no set answer to this unfortunately. It really depends on your priorities. Jumping from a regional to a US firm at 2-3 years PQE is not going to be straight forward though, and you may find it takes a couple of moves over a greater number of years to get there. But it depends on so many variables it is very hard to give you direction on what is possible and what isn’t.3) it doesn’t happen a lot. But mainly because most people who go to regional firms are not aiming for US firms, so are not applying for US PQE roles in large numbers. They made a decision that regional firms are better for them (eg they don’t want to work in London, they don’t want crazy hours). Even if they do, sometimes the work they are doing is not comparable to their US or International form trained peers too - they are less likely to have worked on the size and complexity of matters that those who have trained in US and International firms have done. So they will typically need to be working in a high demand area, or have had unique exposure to specific type of clients/matters that correlate to similar work the US firm does.Most firms have now moved to the SQE because there are far fewer regulatory requirements of QWE compared to a period of recognised training, so I would expect there is a strong chance you will need to complete SQE2 unless you started a TC in the next 12 months.</blockquote>

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