The Lawyer's Personal Brand · glossary
The two years of paid, supervised training at a firm before you qualify as a solicitor, usually in four six-month seats in different teams. Tess trained at the firm where she now works. Her CV of 2023 was written to win her training contract, and nobody had opened it since. File, “training contract” · Chapter 1 · see NQ, Mentor
Explained in Chapter 1, What They Say After You Leave the Room, of The Lawyer's Personal Brand.
Tess has been at the firm since 2022, first as a paralegal and then as a trainee. Her training contract was two years of paid training, in four six-month “seats” in different teams. She is good at the work, but outside her team nobody could say what she does. That is the problem, and the year is what she does about it.Read Chapter 1, What They Say After You Leave the Room →
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the two years of supervised work at a firm, usually in four seats, that come before admission as a solicitor — mine ran from September 2024 to August 2026.Read the definition in the document →
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