Hi, a question to those who know about legal careers. My daughter is in her final year of Russell Group Law LLB. She ideally would like a training contract and would like to work in medical negligence. She has no interest in the very large commercial firms but would realistically be happy working in lots of areas - either within law or in HR, train as an accountant etc. Her first choice would be as a Solicitor though but is very concerned by how hard it is to get a training contract. She is happy to keep trying over a period of years to improve her CV and keep applying though, by working as a legal secretary, paralegal etc.
However, she is also interested in the CPS. To work there, you need to have already done your LPC. They will not fund it, but a lot of Solicitors' that she will be applying to will.
To pay for her LPC, we will have to increase our mortgage. She has always said that we should because she may get a training contract from a firm who will, and they would not be more interested in her just because she had already done the LPC. After speaking to someone whose daughter graduated 5 years ago (during recession when training contracts were even worse to get), she said that they paid for hers and she wouldn't have got anywhere without it.
I'm sorry that this is so long winded but would it be worth (in your opinion) funding the LPC so that she could start studying it next year?