Comments on: CMS and Slaughters latest firms to withdraw TC offers

By: Current Trainee

Current Trainee — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 14:57:16 +0000

In reply to Future Trainee CMS – Now Thinking of Applying Elsewhere.

CMS also do not have enough NQ positions for trainees (its quite clear they have overhired!) ….and so might be a smart move

By: anxious applicant

anxious applicant — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 10:44:25 +0000

In reply to Links Trainee. Do you know what the Links policy is generally? Are they generally understanding or is it very case by case? Have there been any unfair(ish) rescissions after first fail?

By: Spike

Spike — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 12:37:09 +0000

In reply to Solicitor. Ignorant comment! - do you even know the procedure for making an interim injunction?

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 12:37:51 +0000

In reply to Solicitor. You deem advising on any matter without ever referring back to legal texts to be the only indicator of competence? If you’ve ever referred back to a legal text in your career before advising on a matter, you cannot claim that the SQE memory test should be a make or break test of competence

By: annon

annon — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 12:05:09 +0000

In reply to Annoymous. If you only want to focus on specialising in one area of law then CILEx is still an option...many discount CILEx but CILEx is still considered a "lawyer"

By: Anon

Anon — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 11:57:02 +0000

In reply to Lol. I am not sure if all of them, but can confirm that at least 4 have failed

By: 10PQE City Managing Associate

10PQE City Managing Associate — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 10:45:35 +0000

In reply to Crusty. Agreed

By: Pedant

Pedant — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 10:19:47 +0000

*Eversheds *Suther*who

They didn’t merge with a firm of Mackem.

By: Idk chief

Idk chief — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 09:40:06 +0000

In reply to Harvey Spector.

I did the LPC – I don’t think it’s fair to compare it to the SQE and honestly? The LPC wasn’t that hard

By: US associate

US associate — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 08:02:03 +0000

To be brutally honest the majority of trainees have passed the SQE and so it is perfectly fair to rescind training contracts in accordance with their terms.

It doesn’t matter whether the SQE assessment is based on the practical experience of a NQ. The real question is why did you fail when 90% of your fellow trainees have passed and are now happily trainees at these wonderful firms.

By: Harvey Spector

Harvey Spector — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 23:11:11 +0000

Standard practice. Firms are firing and have been firing lawyers since the downturn of the tech market in early Jan 2023. For people who are supposed to have commercial awareness, it seems only the Partner here does.

Yes I am sure the SQE is difficult but so is most things in life. Including the LPC.

It’s a different puzzle box which is yet to be fully grasped by teachers and students.

Firms are using the failures as an accuse to lower intake whilst also weeding out those who are not the brightest. If you have TCs at top tier law firms, expect nothing less and move forward.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 16:58:09 +0000

To the disgruntled associate: What do you mean by studying law properly? The SQE exams tests not only the knowldge of the law but its application to a set of facts. Oxbridge non-law graduates are a very clever bunch, the elite in academia- they can pick up the legal knowledge required to pass SQE exams and also to become Supreme Court Judges! There is no higher value in a law degree than in a Physics or English degree. Non-law graduates are preferred by firms as more intellectual and creative than law graduates. Imagine since age of 18 just memorising cases and black letter law.. The study of law better left for graduate study.. be it PGDL and or SQE.

By: Links Trainee

Links Trainee — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 09:31:25 +0000

In reply to Former Lawyer. They only rescinded after they had a resit as far as I'm aware. What would I know though. I'm only in the current cohort.

By: Annoymous

Annoymous — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 09:08:48 +0000

I sat SQE1 in January. I passed FLK1 but not FLK2. I passed 8 out of the 14 modules having had 4 months to study after passing my open university law degree. Despite passing more than 50% of the modules I failed. I will not be able to afford 1k to retake so that’s my legal aspirations done. I completed a degree in law whilst working full time in a law firm 40 hours a week. I work in a small legal aid firm dealing with housing claims. Its ludicrous that I am expected to know conveyancing, probate and criminal law when I want to work in my specific area. SQE is to hard it’s not right.

By: Leopard

Leopard — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 07:02:59 +0000

In reply to second year law student. Wait until you start the job. You’ll then know the true meaning of exhausting.

By: I have a bridge to sell you

I have a bridge to sell you — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 16:14:46 +0000

In reply to Former Lawyer. Best you look at a capacity check if you believe generic HR jargon

By: Future Trainee

Future Trainee — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 14:07:03 +0000

In reply to Trainee. What is 'the bad stuff' you are referring to?

By: Lol

Lol — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 12:38:28 +0000

Being a lawyer in the UK is so fun guys

By: Future Trainee @ CMS

Future Trainee @ CMS — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 12:18:09 +0000

In reply to Former Lawyer. What they write and what they do is different. Best to stop polishing your smooth brain.

By: They haven’t “diligently evaluated anything”

They haven’t “diligently evaluated anything” — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 09:52:01 +0000

In reply to Former Lawyer.

I know this, because I know the stories behind some of the trainees that were let go. How are you going to get rid of someone for failing by one mark – and dealing with genuine health issues?

It is a load of crock.

By: Former Lawyer

Former Lawyer — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 08:26:08 +0000

In reply to Links common sense. And yet Links have also rescinded training contracts for the same reason but seem to be keeping very quiet on this point.