Career breaks: return journey

Traditionally, practising lawyers follow a linear career path from trainee to partner. But does a career break, whether from choice (to go travelling, try something new or raise a family) or enforced (through redundancy, illness or addiction) have to break your career?

A heavy emphasis on track record means recruitment processes tend to be conservative, while law is unusual in rarely using interim cover even for well-planned absences. It is also a highly competitive job market, particularly in the current economic climate, with no shortage of talented applicants.

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Opinion: New Year career resolutions

Is it time to assess all your post-partner Christmas futures?
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A career in the law? Let’s be honest…

Perhaps a passion for the musical genres of trance, house and Ibiza is the secret of securing a training contract with a law firm.

It certainly worked for Radio One presenter Judge Jules, who is also, as it happens, a London School of Economics law graduate.

But what about non-celebrities, like the young man whose parents asked me last weekend whether doing the conversion course was a good idea?

Was I right to tell them about the thousands of Legal Practice Course (LPC) graduates without a training contract?

They asked the question, but should I have sugared the pill?

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Future LPC students need to be better informed about career prospects

In your article ‘LPC aptitude test risks “clones”’, you quote Kevin Poulter of the Junior Lawyers Division as stating that ‘there are between 10,000 and 20,000 LPC graduates currently looking for training contracts’. This almost certainly overestimates alarmingly the oversupply of LPC graduates. No one knows how many LPC graduates are currently seeking training contracts.

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