Basically, if you don't specifically get a training contract you at least want to know that your job is specified as a paralegal. Lots of law students are now going into paralegal work as it's another "way in". But being a receptionist wont cut it.
It's probably one of the most competitive/I] careers to get into. Sometimes though, people just apply to firms that they realistically have no chance of getting into. And they do it because everyone else is. There's like a feeling amongst the students that you have to aim high from the off. So everyone starts applying to city law firms etc and then they get knock back after knock back and eventually it stumps your enthusiasm for the career. I know several people who have done the LPC, tried for two years to get a job in the city and just given up. If they had tried getting the job in a place which is less competitive they may be working in the industry now looking to work their way up.
It is however all restricted by certain time constraints. I know that if you've finished you law degree or done a non-law degree and gone on to do the GDL, you have something like 7 years to complete the LPC between your degree and the LPC or the GDL and the LPC. Whereas once you've finished your LPC you have something like 3 years to get a training contract or something stupid like that. Many law students rush into the LPC thinking they have to becausr the pressure is on in their final year as loads of other people rush to do the LPC, but the truth is half the people doing the LPC haven't got that 'something extra' the law firms are looking for. People don't use their time wisely enough to make themselves better candidates.
It's probably one of the most competitive/I] careers to get into. Sometimes though, people just apply to firms that they realistically have no chance of getting into. And they do it because everyone else is. There's like a feeling amongst the students that you have to aim high from the off. So everyone starts applying to city law firms etc and then they get knock back after knock back and eventually it stumps your enthusiasm for the career. I know several people who have done the LPC, tried for two years to get a job in the city and just given up. If they had tried getting the job in a place which is less competitive they may be working in the industry now looking to work their way up.
It is however all restricted by certain time constraints. I know that if you've finished you law degree or done a non-law degree and gone on to do the GDL, you have something like 7 years to complete the LPC between your degree and the LPC or the GDL and the LPC. Whereas once you've finished your LPC you have something like 3 years to get a training contract or something stupid like that. Many law students rush into the LPC thinking they have to becausr the pressure is on in their final year as loads of other people rush to do the LPC, but the truth is half the people doing the LPC haven't got that 'something extra' the law firms are looking for. People don't use their time wisely enough to make themselves better candidates.
