Starting into FE1’s this coming sitting and it’s hard to know where to even start with prep for them. I’m wondering is it absolutely necessary, or at the very least a major advantage to purchase courses to pass them? For my financial health I’d rather not have to.
Does anyone who has already done the interview for the JA position have any tips? Have an interview soon and not sure how to prepare. Any info would be appreciated.
Hey, for the legislation we are allowed to bring in, theres 10 things on the syllabus OR the one Bloomsbury Act.
Is the bloomsbury one all of the others listed consolidated. It says 2014 most recent edition though so I'm confused?
Do we just print off the other acts or must they be bought?
Is the EU exam manageable without going a prep course or beckysnotes etc? I did very well in EU in college and I’ve been told it’s one of the more manageable Fe1 exams. Are Becky’s notes good for Eu also? Thanks
Graduated last year and been bored out of my mind living at home and working. I've been offered a job teaching English in another European country and am seriously considering it. Its always been my dream to live abroad for a while and learn a new language.
I worry however, with how cutthroat law can be, that I'll be seriously putting myself behind by moving abroad and doing something unrelated to law for 1-2 years.
Are my worries legitimate or overblown?
Now that the timetables are out I’m thinking of sitting 4 exams while working full time. Const ( already have notes for it ) equity ( notes done ) contract ( notes done) and company (no notes done) .do you think it would be possible to sit all 4 ? I have 8 days annual leave left! I don’t wanna ask my boss for unpaid leave again, cause I feel like I have been doing these exams for ages and I always ask her !
Hi guys,
I am a law student moving on to final year. I plan to sit my contract law fe1 one exam on October. However, from people I have heard that you only get a conditional offer from top firms if you have passed the fe1 in three sittings?
Lads I'm getting irate now that we still haven't received these. Has anyone been in touch with law soc? I emailed them yesterday but no joy. Someone pls put me out of my misery
Started an internship a few days ago in a law firm as an intern. Haven’t been paid yet, haven’t signed a contract. Found out today that the recent intern (he left last week) was on €6 an hour. Is this normal? Or allowed? I’m stressed as I don’t want to work there for €6 an hour any longer as it’s not worth it. Whenever I ask I’m brushed aside and passed from A to B.
Did you get an interview?
Lads would every office keep copies of their letters sent out. I’m a legal secretary and I’m after loosing a letter. I’m gna ring them tomorrow morning to re-send. Obviously it’s normal practice for all law firms to keep their letters ? We do it
Thanks
Is anyone else currently dealing with the shit show that is Independent Colleges? I am coming to the conclusion that it is actually just a scam.
We are now coming up on week 5 of the course, 6 weeks since they took payment and still no sign of the manuals. They warned us that there was a delay but said they would compensate by uploading the chapters on to Moodle - which was a lie apparently.
It took them 3 weeks to respond to a request for an update and they only responded with a "wrong email" it took me emailing every single email address I could get my hands on to get that far.
They then got back to me on the Monday of last week saying the manuals were being sent last week and would be with us this week. They then send out a general email yesterday saying they are being sent this week.
I have now sent emails harassing them to try go pick up today and apparently that was bullshit also, they still don't have the manuals, they will arrive Friday apparently.
At this rate they are just not providing what was paid for, they have attempted to fob me off by saying that we are getting the lecture slides, but they are barebones and some of the lecturers are just running through the manuals, which is useless considering we don't have access to them. It has rendered the homework facility redundant as trying to build a response without the manual to pad is an idiots game. I could go dig up the actual cases, but the lecturers don't even properly cite the cases so trying to find them is going to take more time.
These courses are supposed to save time, but it is fast becoming a full time job to stage manage them into providing basic information about the service they have charged me for.
Anyone else ready to go flip a table?
What are the reasons people don’t get a return offer? Does it look bad when applying for milkrounds to have done an internship and not received an offer?
I’m reaching out to the community here in hopes that anyone is already working in and or knows of any firms/solicitors that would be interested in taking on a law graduate with basically no work experience in the legal sector.
Graduated last October with my LLM in Law, and I am so eager to gain some real work experience and get my foot in the door but haven’t had much luck just yet with the different job sites or cold emailing, so this is really a post to try something different.
I would be happy to work as an executive, intern, pa, administrator or anything the like, whether that be part time or full.
Thanks to anyone that’s read all this and even considered helping out. I’m also open to any advice from young professionals that have been in a similar situation!
To begin with I finished A levels last year and got A*A*AB and took a gap year to gain experience in the legal field(-secured two back to back internships- before I start my BCL degree at UCD. Can you guys give advise on how my path might look? since I do want to train and work in Ireland as a lawyer
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Has anyone went down the route of qualifying as a lawyer in the public sector in general (not via the Chief State Solicitors)
I know opportunities are a lot less via this avenue, and it may involve paying for Blackhall yourself, and/or doing the hybrid course or taking unpaid leave to do Blackhall full time - which isn’t an option for most.
I work with a public sector regulator, which has an in house legal team - and was wondering if it would be possible? I can’t see a block to it, if one of the in house lawyers would agree to be a training solicitor?
All insights welcome!
I would really appreciate advice as to what I should be preparing now to apply for the upcoming TC milkrounds.
Should I be sprucing up my CV? Should I be networking ? Should I be adding people on LinkedIn that are hiring managers for firms?
Also, any resources would be so helpful and appreciated :)
Has anyone got their fe1 recheck exam back? LS are a joke at this stage