  solicitors/legal recruitment people - what's on your wish list
for a tc application from a career changer?  (7 Posts)
KnitFastDieWarm Tue 07-Jan-14 16:38:25  I'm 26, and am in the
process of moving from a much-loved but not long-term career as
web editor for a finance firm to becoming a solicitor.  I
considered law when I graduated but, I will freely admit, I was
a rather airy fairy early 20 something and spent the next few
years travelling/trying a variety of jobs/working out what I was
good at. I fell into publishing, then into copy editing in the
financial services field, where to my utter astonishment, I
discovered that I found compliance, property law and other
things my 20 year old self had deemed boring, to be just my cup
of tea. I enjoy combining my attention to detail and methodical
mind with the intellectual rigor of legal issues and their
application to the business world.  I've done a day's shadowing
at a local solicitors (thanks, ex Dbf!) and am currently taking
some undergraduate courses with