To those who were NQs in 2008/2009 and didn’t get retained - what did you do? Did you paralegal? I’m a fourth seater really struggling to find anything as literally no firms are recruiting NQs right now.

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You may need to qualify into an area you know has space for you. The advice I'm receiving is to look into litigation, restructuring/insolvency and white collar crime.

What areas are you interested in and what're your firms offerings?

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