Finally winding down

By LLM85 in LLM85 KCL on Dec 14, 2009

I havn't put up a post for ages!!!! My apologies as the workload just cranked up and I really don't want to get left behind. But everything is shutting down for the Christmas break so i have a little bit more free time on my hands.

Firstly i'll deal with the non-teaching aspect of the course. King's recently hosted its annual law fair over two days which i feel was very well attended by the law firms with a good selection of firms being represented. But to be honest King's has such a wealth of big firms vying to do events with them that the law fair was really just the tip of the iceberg.

I don't know if this is just me, but law fairs are not of very much help to me these days or maybe I am just bored of hearing the same thing from these Graduate Recruiters all the time. And when I do ask them a question that I really want or need the answer to, chances are they don't know the answer and they ask me to send an e-mail which is 50/50 as to whether they will reply.

Back to the admin, I thought those little gliches would be sorted out by now but still there are problems. Trying to select our research essay titles and dissertations was a nightmare and one of my friends has had one of her half-modules cancelled (this only happened a week and a half ago!). As much as I am growing to love this uni, this kind of confusion and disappointing admin has got to be sorted. Some people are paying over £10 000 to do an LLM at King's and for that kind of money you expect a higher standard (this is not directed at the teaching which is OUTSTANDING!!!!)

I will say this though, if you want to do your LLM to have a better chance of securing a training contract with an international firm, it is very much to your advantage to be already qualified in your own country esp if that country is China, India, Brazil, USA... well actually it depends on the firm, as some firms a looking for a lot of Eastern European qualified lawyers as well. This is not to say that this will not change as soon as some other country comes into commercial fashion but that is what it sounds like to me at the moment.

Also if you are a UK law undergrad and you want to do an LLM, seriously think about the timing of the degree as law firms will be recruiting 2 years in advance so chances are you are going to have a lot of time to kill after doing your LPC. But thats no biggie really.

The teaching is still great and I am looking forward to learning from a whole host of new lecturers next semester as well. Things are going well on the education front, and I think that next semester will continue in the same vein.

Merry Christmas all xxx

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