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The view from campus: law students contemplate a bleak future as jobs dry up

I came out of law school in 1996, a time when it was fairly tough to get a training contract. I had no connections within the legal field and, through necessity, took a job as a legal secretary. I did a year as a secretary, a year as a paralegal and then started my training contract, all at the same firm. It does happen and sometimes swallowing your pride and taking every bit of experience from every situation pays off. I also found that, by the time I qualified, I had a much wider outlook than many others and a bit of real life experience that stood me in good stead for NQ jobs.

6-Jul-2009

9:52 pm