u/Ashamed-Grape7792

Hi all,

Apologies if this is not the right place to post this. I've gotten a vacation role at a big4 in corporate tax. A lot of law students get hired, and then do their PLT/get admitted as solicitors there.

My question involves future career progression/exit opportunities - would I need to become a CA/CPA to progress in my career, if I get admitted as a solicitor (QLD)? I'm looking to eventually move into something in corporate governance or policy, or tax advisory. I'm not sure if I'd be realistically able to do so with corporate tax experience, and without a CA.

I'm trying to look at other people who've gone to the big4 in my position but I can't find many people besides associates or senior associates who just did PLT and are still at the same firm.

To be honest I'm not very keen on becoming an accountant, but I currently work in a commercial law firm and I'm realising that private practice law isn't for me either. I'm just trying gauge if it's worth it to take the vacation role, or if I'll eventually be pigeonholed into having to do a CA to progress my career.

Hi all,

Apologies if this is not the right place to post this. I've gotten a vacation role at a big4 in corporate tax. A lot of law students get hired, and then do their PLT/get admitted as solicitors there.

My question involves future career progression/exit opportunities - would I need to become a CA/CPA to progress in my career, if I get admitted as a solicitor (QLD)? I'm looking to eventually move into something in corporate governance or policy, or tax advisory. I'm not sure if I'd be realistically able to do so with corporate tax experience, and without a CA.

I'm trying to look at other people who've gone to the big4 in my position but I can't find many people besides associates or senior associates who just did PLT and are still at the same firm.

To be honest I'm not very keen on becoming an accountant, but I currently work in a commercial law firm and I'm realising that private practice law isn't for me either. I'm just trying gauge if it's worth it to take the vacation role, or if I'll eventually be pigeonholed into having to do a CA to progress my career.

Hi all,

I'm a penultimate law/commerce student. In order to graduate on time and hopefully get a grad offer for my upcoming internship, I need to do 4 courses in one of my semesters this year or next year.

I'm thinking of biting the bullet and doing it next semester, but I'm worried it'll be too much. I'll be doing jurisprudence, ethics and the legal profession, law of evidence and I think I'll do Law and Indigenous peoples.

Is this doable, e.g. if I buy notes from Studoc, StudentVIP etc? I'm a bit worried. All I want next semester are 5's.

Morning all,

I'm a penultimate student, currently working at a mid-tier law firm part time while I finish my law/finance degree at a G08. Grades have started slipping recently.

I've accepted a Tax & Legal vacationer role in corporate tax at PwC. I'm starting to think I'd be better suited to a corporate role than at a law firm. I have the option of a clerkship at my current firm in the autumn when applications open, and I'll apply for clerkships elsewhere ( hopefully I'll get the winter intake).

TBH I'm not keen on my current workplace for various reasons and I'm trying to stay employed till at least the end of the year. Law really seems to suck as a career path (billable, stress, always being 'on' etc).

Even if I get a clerkship elsewhere in the winter, IDK which career option to choose when I graduate. I know I'm thinking too far ahead, but I'm worried I can't handle the work intensity of law (but am also worried about pay at the big4).