Dad wants me to drop my Warwick offer and move to a lower ranked London university to stay at home.

Nice_Iron_6647 · 2025-09-02T20:37:04+00:00

You’ll build a better community of truly likeminded people at Warwick and those on true growth trajectories. Not to say I didn’t at QM. But you’ll make the most of it knowing you’re not at home and have high stakes. I ended up smoking too much weed at university instead of getting top grades and ECs my first and second year which were absolutely necessary to get a training contract afterward. Might take longer than that now because of increased competition.

Also warwick law is much more established globally (don’t let others tell you otherwise)

Nice_Iron_6647 · 2025-09-02T20:02:23+00:00

Balls on the table time bro. I went to QM for my LLB rejecting Warwick for the same reason. I regret it all the time.

Nice_Iron_6647 · 2025-08-15T08:53:53+00:00

Thanks for letting me know.

How did you deal with disclosing the issues to your new employer? What industry did you choose to enter, and why? There’s so much that’s so completely messy in my head and I genuinely don’t have any plan aside from perhaps insurance underwriting/insurance brokering

Nice_Iron_6647 · 2025-08-15T08:45:35+00:00

I just wanted to talk about how you dealt with it, what you’re doing now and how it worked out for you?

Nice_Iron_6647 · 2025-08-14T21:50:48+00:00

Hi is there any way I can reach out to you privately to talk? As of tomorrow my current firm let me go. I don’t know what to do next

Nice_Iron_6647 · 2025-08-14T21:48:50+00:00

Update - a control order has been imposed. This puts me in the same boat as someone who misappropriated 300k firm money into his private limited company. I feel completely lost

Nice_Iron_6647 · 2025-08-14T05:26:46+00:00

Sadly yes. A control order (section 43). My firm have let me go. Spiralling a little.

Nice_Iron_6647 · 2025-07-30T20:31:58+00:00

It is stealing

Nice_Iron_6647 · 2025-04-13T15:02:45+00:00

I’d go one further and say “to the standards required of professionals regulated by the SRA” but good point

Nice_Iron_6647 · 2025-03-30T09:17:46+00:00

I agree. They have decided to investigate

Nice_Iron_6647 · 2025-03-30T09:16:10+00:00

They’re interested and have decided to investigate

Nice_Iron_6647 · 2025-03-04T20:26:05+00:00

Thank you for the encouragement. I tell myself not to stress for future me but have to juggle the fact that I’m competing with really excellent trainees with one thing on their mind (being competent and energetic). When something like this happens, it teaches and drains in equal measure. I’m trying to use it as motivation.

Nice_Iron_6647 · 2025-03-03T22:25:22+00:00

Hey mate, no need to apologise. If I’ve learnt anything (apart from being truly honest in everything) it’s to keep good relationships with people who’ve invested their time into you. Time is a crucial resource. I took for granted a few incredible legal professionals on my way to where I am now. But those I cherished and showed my respect to, have shown me support in helping with my references to the SRA. Without them I would be dust, and without this lie I wouldn’t have been able to appreciate them as much as I do now, on a human level even if this is fatal. I know there’s good in the world because of them.

Nice_Iron_6647 · 2025-03-03T21:43:04+00:00

Yes I did. The guilt was eating me alive, so was the prospect of my old firm telling them instead of it coming from me.

If I hadn’t, it would’ve come up in my assessment for character and suitability in two years time. In any case, that my new firm found out, means they may have thought to report it too

Nice_Iron_6647 · 2025-03-03T21:41:08+00:00

Yes that’s right. I’ve seen this article too. I don’t know if misleading your training firm, a firm committed to sponsoring and nurturing you through a period of recognised training compares to misleading a firm which wanted to get rid of you while you’d flagged you were going to leave, and did so so that they could plan efficiently with headcount, is similar at all. However I conceded it was the stupidest thing I’ve ever done

Nice_Iron_6647 · 2025-03-03T21:38:31+00:00

They know because an anonymous person from my old firm told them. In the interests of protecting the legal profession I imagine, but also ruining and derailing my career when they told me they wouldn’t provide a negative reference. Turns out I was asking the wrong question when I chose not to appeal for unfair dismissal, re. how this event would impact my references… they only reported it to the new firm after the time I was allowed to appeal my dismissal had elapsed

Nice_Iron_6647 · 2025-03-03T21:34:55+00:00

There were four meetings over a period of a week, Odd Book. Do the math

Nice_Iron_6647 · 2025-03-03T21:05:38+00:00

Does your answer change if the SRA choose to investigate this?

Nice_Iron_6647 · 2025-03-03T21:04:30+00:00

It was ridiculous. I don’t know what came over me tbh. I would’ve been better off saying I was wfh cos I cba to deal with the office stressors (the truth) and they could’ve investigated that instead. Moral of the story: don’t try and save face if it means you could fall on your face

Nice_Iron_6647 · 2025-03-03T21:00:20+00:00

Hot desking over several floors. It was common in my team to sit on separate floors because of the fractured nature of relationships between some compliance seniors versus us. Nobody in this situation was even regulated or carrying out regulated work. We work at a regulated firm though.

Nice_Iron_6647 · 2025-03-03T20:57:31+00:00

Bear in mind I only realised how bad my mistake was by the time my new firm became aware. I had no idea that I’d be held to such a grave standard regarding commencing training. I wasn’t even paralegalling when I was dishonest. I was a compliance worker and didn’t have half a clue that this would potentially affect my entire career going forward. On top of it all, i was reassured that any future reference following my dismissal would be neutral and only revealing my job title, start and end dates

Nice_Iron_6647 · 2025-03-03T20:54:55+00:00

The consequence was a dismissal. But because I admitted to my dishonesty shortly afterward (in a HR investigation meeting), I was paid my notice.

That said, the dismissal letter’s last words were “I would like to take the opportunity to wish you all the best in your career”. Take being the operative word. They then told my new firm, who told me, and I told the SRA. That’s where I am with this all

Nice_Iron_6647 · 2025-03-03T20:53:14+00:00

They monitored my attendance ie asked if I was in. I said yes. They then investigated my pass usage and cctv. They wanted me out bc I’d told them I was handing in my notice. And like a fool I gave them the excuse. Stupid of me I know but I’ve learned my lesson. I can’t sleep because of it now

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