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McCann FitzGerald defers Trainees for two years

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  • #52
    maidhc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,722 ✭✭✭maidhc


    TheDemiurge wrote: »
    Not the right thread to post in per se, but the tone is right. I haven't been on here in ages, I've been getting on with planning a new life.

    If you haven't gotten an apprenticeship, consider yourselves lucky. My practice is closing down, I can't afford to pay an accountant to do up an accountant's report for year end December 2008, no bank will lend me the money to pay for it, and I got a call today from the Law Society informing me that despite them being aware of my financial situation they are reporting me to the Disciplinary Tribunal for not filing the report. So I find myself now with no money, supposed to defend myself down in Bow Street to save a parchment that got me into this difficulty in the first place and avoid a judgment being registered against my home.

    Please God people - do anything, ANYTHING - except enter this monumental scam and train wreck of a "profession".

    :(

    Jesus, that sounds tough. Our wonderful law society strikes again.


  • #53
    maidhc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,722 ✭✭✭maidhc


    drkpower wrote: »
    Agreed; but any big firm has a detailed plan based on predicted income/state of the economy etc.. You did say that firms dont have a plan that lasts more than 3 months. As I said, the plan may be poor, but they do have one.

    They may well have one, but it must take account of realities which are ever changing.

    drkpower wrote: »
    They may want that in an employee but those attributes are hugely negative in any senior lawyer and are particularly harmful in a partner/equity partner whose own views on how the business is run are hugely important.

    Maybe and maybe not. Don't forget that most (i.e. prob 75%) of graduates from NUI colleges will be eligible to be considered for apprenticeships in big firms according to their own criteria. Something must set them apart other than academic excellence.

    For the most part the legal profession is characterised by inertia and reluctance when it comes to business practices. Solicitors for the most part stick doing what they are used to and are generally not entrepreneurs.


  • #54
    nuac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,769 ✭✭✭nuac


    Sympathies Demiurge. Tough times. Agree with you that those now considering law should think again.


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