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To an extent that's just kind of how this works.
That post rolled us onto 667 - confirmation Jessica is here doing God's workJust seen the number of pages of the forum
The weird thing is that your post landed on page 667 how weird.Just seen the number of pages of the forum
I find it absolutely bonkers. I think the open nature of NQ salaries rn really warps opinions towards levels of remuneration. You see 15+ US firms offering crazy money and begin to think it's a norm when in fact the total numbers of NQ solicitors are pretty insignificant when compared with the broader total London grad market.
The platform automatically saves your work as you go along, don't think it's a good idea to write up the exercise in word and try to copy and paste it over. I had a wifi glitch which meant I couldn't access the platform to submit my work and so the grand sum of my efforts was 'Dear' and that was the end of my Dechert process hahaahDechert written exercise and VI invite! any advice would be hugely appreciated!!
Hey - I received a VI link for W&C last Thursday if that helps. I applied on the deadline day
Just want to add that I have just now received the email!
Yeah I mean it's also imo quite unseemly to get into pissing contests about comp levels as though that's a reflection of competence, intelligence or inherent worth. Everyone matriculating into City practice as an NQ is in or very near the top 1% of UK earners, the obsession in some corners with working at the highest levels of remuneration is a bit tasteless and should be relegated to investment banking where it belongs.
Couldn't agree more. This was my first cycle and so with nothing else to go on, I'm not ashamed to admit I basically selected firms to apply for on the basis of the 'Most List' on Legal Cheek (NQ Salaries & even more amusingly PEP). As the months have gone on, various open days have really opened my eyes to how much you can actually find out about a firm when you look further than the superficial descriptions of a 'full-service international firm'.
Please can you DM with any tips for the video interview and written exercises!! I would really appreciate it!
It would be better if it didn't! I gather that no small part of the strain on city lawyers is a downstream effect of some of the... shall we say, 'extreme' behaviour sometimes seen in IB and PE outfits.
(although I am not convinced it has a place in IB either...)
Even the trainee salaries are higher than the average London full-time salary! I think a lot of people forget that, perhaps it is because so many solicitors come from quite privileged backgrounds so see high salaries as normal.
Astronomically high PEP to me is a red flag because it means they are wringing ever more out of juniors. I will perhaps lateral into partnership at Kirkland in my later years, after building a respectable book of business at some 'lesser' firm 🥳
