Behind the scenes of modding UKLaw... a cautionary tale for those of you who are desperately trying to get TCs etc.
This is mostly stuff that the majority of you will hopefully never come across because we get to it fast enough (user reports really help us to achieve this too - thank you), but I would like to just warn you all that there are an awful lot of attempts every day to part you with your cash.
There is the obvious shit like the thundercunts at Bradstone Allington or BA Global as they rebranded trying to charge people thousands of pounds for a shitty paralegal course and unpaid work experience at a broom closet notary in Canary Wharf, but every day we have at least one tech bro trying to spam their app or do market research to help them develop it.
To try to provide you with some things to be wary of, these are all things designed to try to prey on your desperation and hope of securing a TC or job or whatever. In a small minority of cases, some of the more legitimate services might help, but there are almost always free options you could have used instead and for the vast majority of users they will be wasting their money. There are also (realistically) some people who have zero chance of achieving their ambitions because of the reality of hiring in the UK legal market (thinking particularly of overseas applicants from non-preferred jurisdictions) who will be effectively burning money.
CV services
Interview coaching
Prep apps
Essay writing services (this is also going to get you fast tracked to being barred from being a lawyer)
SQE prep questions that turn out to be AI generated
People trying to sell pdf copies of textbooks (again a good way to get on the wrong side of the law)
Unpaid "work experience" that actually should be paid
There is more (please add any others I have missed)...