The road less taken: perspectives on law school in the UK

Daniel Lo graduated from the LLB for Graduates programme in 2009 and now works for international law firm Walkers. We asked him about his time at Birmingham and his career to date.  “I have often let the pursuit of the road less taken dictate my career choices, possibly because of my natural inclination to try […]

How I failed one of my NCA exams

I remember how prepared I felt on the 14th of May, 2019. I was just excited to get the exams out of the way, after all, I started preparing around the end of March for the three courses: administrative law, foundations of Canadian law and constitutional Law. My biggest fear was administrative Law and the […]

Why Study Law Abroad

The phrase, “I went to Law School abroad”, is often met with two assumptions in the Canadian legal market: 1) the student didn’t do well on the LSAT and 2) as a result, wasn’t admitted into a Canadian law school. While these may be perfectly legitimate assumptions that hold true in some cases, they are […]

My first NCA examinations

Once I decided that I was ready to face the hurdles of the licensing process. I faced it head-on. I went for exam preparation tutoring almost an hour away every weekend, I read for about four hours every day, I listened to podcasts and watched videos online every single day. If I was out of […]