I feel sorry for a friend of mine…
He studied Law at Reading University (2:1), took the LPC at the College of Law in Guildford (or is it BPC, one of them anyway) then applied to over 200 firms before being offered a training contract at a decent sized firm in Reading. His training contract coincided with the recession and they only kept one of his intake of 8 on at the end of it.
He’s applied for all sorts of posts around the country since, but has had no luck and after 2 years has jacked it in.
Now he’s trying to establish himself as a web designer, but is getting screwed over by clients who take forever and a day to pay him. 31 years old and living with his parents again in rural Dorset…not really the life he had envisaged.
Legal Executives seem to be suffering to, they seem to be the first out of the door. Those ILEX exams take years to complete and then they find themselves earning just a few grand more than paralegals and legal secretaries.