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Re: How competitive are you?
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Originally Posted by blazey
There is no method of checking what class background you come from on an application form to a law firm.
And it is not true that you only get these jobs by knowing the right people. I have friends graduating this year who are just as working class as anyone on this forum and have successfully got training contracts and pupillages. It is your sort of attitude to the profession that puts people off trying.
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Don't be put off.
Look no further than Constance Briscoe to see that barristers and judges can rise to their posts from the most humble beginnings. 
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Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs, cackling and telling me
'You'll be next.' They stopped when I started doing the same to them at funerals.
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