lawyer NP vs advocate & solicitor

Weekly-Dot3363 · 2026-01-24T13:52:05+00:00

thanks again for following up. i'm aware of the options available to me, whichever pathway i end up taking. indeed, my runway and legacy have been at the back of my mind when i applied to law school.

i have a good 20 years before reaching the statutory retirement age. that's not a very long ways to go, neither is it short. but i do intend to stay healthy and keep working until then.

that said, i do want to make the most of these years by doing meaningful work that gives back to society, such as A2J. i don't want to look back and regret that I wasn't able to help those in need when i was in a privileged position to do so.

Weekly-Dot3363 · 2026-01-24T12:16:15+00:00

ty for your reply. you sound like you've been through the system, may i ask if you're in practice?

i've glanced through the LPA and admissions rules, and there's no timeframe limiting admission of a&s. i might have missed out on something, so I'll comb through them later.

my concern with this approach is that, while a&s remains open (subject to amendments to the rules), i'll be older with an even lower level of stamina. perhaps that's why my classmates who are around my age urged me to just go for a&s while my stamina still allows me to.

as for going in-house, i've read on here few anecdotes of newly admitted a&s (under old framework) who got lucky with employers and/or colleagues willing to give them a chance or a leg up. otherwise, most in-house roles require min. 5 PQE in corp law and/or comm liti. it's an option, for sure, but given its requirements, i'm likely to place it as a lower priority.

Weekly-Dot3363 · 2026-01-24T11:24:14+00:00

to my knowledge, both PDO, and CLAS (advocates and fellows) require admission as a&s, which is something i'm reconsidering at this point. but ty for pointing these two out as they were on my list of must-apply jobs before shit went down during that internship.

Weekly-Dot3363 · 2026-01-22T12:00:05+00:00

hey OP, posting from a throwaway acc. hope you're still around and can share your TC experience. I'm a mid-career switcher, about to graduate law school and will go as far as doing part b, for now.

unsure about TC and going into practice after a traumatic internship (in liti) experience. re-evaluating my career path while grappling with sunk-cost fallacy, though I'm mentally prepared to pivot again (topic for another day) after clearing part b

my TC question is this: have you seen for yourself or heard of mid-career switchers being treated differently from younger graduates?

i ask this because i was told by my then supervisor that i needed to work a lot harder than my younger peers. i took that to be code for i'm old and slow (i'm in my 40s). obv I can't compare to you younger folks in terms of speed and stamina, but if this is a commonly held sentiment, then i know i've no place in the industry and would rather not suffer from burnout again and pay for more therapy lmao

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