retraining in law
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Athos
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Thora
Differently Ethical
I'll ask her about it. I'm not sure if she had to do a whole law degree or just a conversion course, and then she did like an apprenticeship at our local (small town) solicitors.
Thora
Differently Ethical
Also I'd like to think if I had a law degree I'd be earning a lot more money than I do teaching 4 year olds
innit
c'mon, little life giver
It is interesting. I think it's a kind of magic
using the same everyday words we use to chat to our friends to create binding obligations.Absolutely not, although most (not all) of them are not in the slightest bit family friendly.
God, that's true. Never joined those dots.
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
That is sad. And appears to be less true in the fields of employment and equality law!
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
And that is why legal jobs in the civil service used to be so very popular among women. The civil service had good policies on maternity and family friendly working.It is interesting. I think it's a kind of magic
Absolutely not, although most (not all) of them are not in the slightest bit family friendly.
God, that's true. Never joined those dots.
Still has, compared to some employers, but not as good as it used to be.
Winot
I wholeheartedley agree with your viewpoint
#notalllawyers
I'm a lawyer but not a solicitor. Patent attorney. Love it but you need a science degree. The hours aren't long but the professional exams are difficult. Another option is trade mark attorney (for which you don't need a science degree).
Becoming a Chartered Trade Mark Attorney
Do you have a degree, what's it in, and what grade did you get?
Johnny Canuck3
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english, 2:1... then many years experience working in publishing... im wondering if i could link them
Winot
I wholeheartedley agree with your viewpoint
Commercial experience is always useful. Degree ticks the box. Are you ready for 5 years of exams?
It was about what I expected!
i reckon first move might be to see if the place i work for has any kind of scheme...
Athos
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Does it have an in house legal team?
Hollis
bloody furious
Isn't it virtually impossible for late career changers to get articles or whatever it's called these days?
Anecdotally all I can say is many years a go i went to the wedding of a mate and was stuck on a table full of lawyers and their partners. They were all probably earning shed loads and I know one of them now is a QC. But they all seemed pretty miserable. The QC did have a nice house in Clapham though, last time I saw him.
But don't let any of that put you off..
Anecdotally all I can say is many years a go i went to the wedding of a mate and was stuck on a table full of lawyers and their partners. They were all probably earning shed loads and I know one of them now is a QC. But they all seemed pretty miserable. The QC did have a nice house in Clapham though, last time I saw him.
But don't let any of that put you off..
yeh
hm i reckon I'm pretty sure I don't want to be a "lawyer" as such, from this thread....Isn't it virtually impossible for late career changers to get articles or whatever it's called these days?
Anecdotally all I can say is many years a go i went to the wedding of a mate and was stuck on a table full of lawyers and their partners. They were all probably earning shed loads and I know one of them now is a QC. But they all seemed pretty miserable. The QC did have a nice house in Clapham though, last time I saw him.
But don't let any of that put you off..
An old colleague had to pay a firm (not officially obviously) to take his wife on on a training contract!
baldrick
hmmmmm
From what he said it's pretty common too; he'd had the same offer from a couple of different people at his mosque. Was £2k iirc, he justified it as either that or the money for her degree went to waste.
Haven't spoken to him for a few years, so not sure how she's doing now - will have a Facebook stalk!
Corax
Luke 5:16
I'd hate to be a solicitor, but I was on my way (80% post-grad CPE completed, top of my class) to becoming a barrister. Personal tragedy struck, so that idea was fucked, and I still regret it. You have to have a mind that works a certain way and mine... does. Or did, at least. 
Having said that, I'd probably have crashed and burned when it got to pupilage stage. The Inns all have bizarre little rituals and formailties and Bullingdonesque style bollocks. I probably would have yelled ¡No Pasarán! in the wrong person's face at some point and stormed out.
I would, however, gently suggest that successfully disputing parking tickets may not be a particularly reliable indicator of suitability or aptitude.
Having said that, I'd probably have crashed and burned when it got to pupilage stage. The Inns all have bizarre little rituals and formailties and Bullingdonesque style bollocks. I probably would have yelled ¡No Pasarán! in the wrong person's face at some point and stormed out.
I would, however, gently suggest that successfully disputing parking tickets may not be a particularly reliable indicator of suitability or aptitude.
Athos
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That's good. Do they offer training contacts?
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
My employer has an in-house legal team, however the last two people on training contracts left the company as soon as they could after completing the traineeship. They now only take fully trained people even for paralegal work, because they can basically get a fully trained lawyer for comparative peanuts due to a glut of lawyers looking for work.
My previous employer said they would pay for me to do a law degree. Turned out my boss at the time was a lying toad...
I Do contracts and IP work. It gets a bit dull sometimes.
My previous employer said they would pay for me to do a law degree. Turned out my boss at the time was a lying toad...
I Do contracts and IP work. It gets a bit dull sometimes.
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