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Originally Posted by Unregistered
Would like to fundamentally correct this way of thinking.
Not too recent Aus grad here at an international firm doing corp and private equity work. There are more of us here and at other places than you realise. You may not realise it, but firms are actually hiring us.
The good thing about the legal career, especially now that many recruitment partner committees are made up of younger generations, including people like me in a few years.
We care only if you're good. That does not equal only NUS/ SMU or Oxbridge.
Indeed many of the SUSS, Australian and former delisted UK uni students are doing very well now. If not before, then because they've stuck through and lateralled after a few years when fewer lawyers stay in the middle.
So, take comfort that a good lawyer can come from anywhere.
In fact, I see more NUS/ SMU students struggle than overseas grads - because there're so many of you, and the student culture is so toxic amongst each other (though there have been quite a lot of nice batches lately who co-exist with the overseas students now).
Hopefully that changes. We could do with more support, comradeship and encouragement in the community |
Understand that good law schools may not make good lawyers
And not so good law schools may not make poor lawyers
But how would HR and recruitment partner know from the outset at the point of hiring that the not so good lawyers would produce good assocs next time??
The only reasonable way of solving this does seem to be to take the law students from goor schools to minimise this risk