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Originally Posted by Unregistered
Anyone who tells you it "doesn't matter at all" is just full of it (or salty). There's no way getting first class honors will not give you some advantage in a job application or in raising your profile to clients, the question is just of how much it helps.
As a general rule I would say it helps more in disputes work (which is very reputation driven and your performance in school is more indicative of your ability to do good work) than corporate. It is also less important the more years of practice you have. My degree and grades definitely helped when I did my first job change one year in, but I dont see it mattering if I was 6 PQE for example.
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Thank you all for the helpful replies. I'm a bit worried because I'm on the fringe for FCH, and it seems quite binary to me that if i fall just short of the cutoff, the "worth" of my degree is somewhat labelled as similar to perhaps 70% of the cohort (the CAP range for 2nd upper is anywhere from 3.3-4.3). Any thoughts on this?
Also to the poster of this reply, would you mind sharing what kind of firm were you at previously, and what kind of firm did you jump to 1 year in? Was it an international firm? Also are you in disputes? Thanks.