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January 07, 2024

Hey,

I hope you had a chance to take a break over the holidays. I know I did. I wanted to do some applications that had a deadline on 31 December / 1st of January and then I realised:

I don’t want to work anywhere that has this type of deadlines. The recruiters know that the majority of applications are sent on the deadline date. Why would you pick those exact dates?

I know some cultures do not celebrate the New Year on 1st of January, but the UK does. These are UK-based firms.

These are the same firms that like to downplay the difficulty of getting a training contract.

“It’s just couple of questions, followed by an interview, a group exercise and a short talk at the end of the day. Nothing to worry about.”

As a candidate, I feel mocked when I hear that.

Can’t they just admit that the process is difficult, as it should be? After all, they’re spending hundreds of thousands on each trainee.

Straightforward, maybe. But not easy.

If you’re facing rejection this time of year, remember that the process is designed to be difficult. We’ll get there eventually.

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⚖️ This week in Law History

7 January 1927 — A telephone service began operating between London and New York. A 3 minute call cost £15( £780 today). Regardless, 31 different people made a call on the first day. Some of them were definitely lawyers.

8 January 2001 — The High Court ruled that the identities of Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, would be kept secret for the rest of their lives. For context, both 10 year olds brutally murdered a toddler in 1993.

9 January 1799 — Income Act 1799 was passed, introducing a tax on all annual incomes exceeding £200 at a flat rate of 10%. Incomes falling between £60 and £200 were subject to a graduated tax rate, starting at slightly less than 1% and going up to 10%.

10 January 1839 — Indian tea was auctioned in Britain for the first time. Only tea from China was available prior to this, and it was expensive. Once Indian tea was introduced, it became so affordable that it was made the national drink.

11 January 1569 — The first state lottery is held in England. The funds were meant to be used to improve the shipping industry. It would would take another 129 years before the first Statute of Lotteries Act would be enacted in 1698. The act declared all lotteries illegal, apart those authorised by Parliament.

12 January 1784 — the Continental Congress, representing the Thirteen American Colonies, ratified the Treaty of Paris, formally ending the American Revolutionary War with Great Britain.

13 January 2020 — Same-Sex marriage becomes legal in Northern Ireland through the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation etc) Act 2019

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