Comments on: DLA Piper trainee shares her extraordinary journey from cleaning offices in London to starting City TC https://www.legalcheek.com/2025/08/dla-piper-trainee-shares-her-extraordinary-journey-from-cleaning-offices-in-london-to-starting-city-tc/ Legal news, insider insight and careers advice Tue, 09 Sep 2025 12:43:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: PQE https://www.legalcheek.com/2025/08/dla-piper-trainee-shares-her-extraordinary-journey-from-cleaning-offices-in-london-to-starting-city-tc/#comment-1232683 Tue, 09 Sep 2025 12:43:57 +0000 https://www.legalcheek.com/?p=223660#comment-1232683 Her Linkedin posts literally make 0 sense – blames the entire legal system for not passing the SQE. Makes bizarre comments about not being “bought” by the money and the lifestyle. Sounds like she’s just blaming the entire world for not passing the exam.

I don’t know how could anyone can trust her to do well in the job. If your Linkedin posts are so incoherent, I’m no trusting you with reading a 50 page contract.

]]> By: Alasdair https://www.legalcheek.com/2025/08/dla-piper-trainee-shares-her-extraordinary-journey-from-cleaning-offices-in-london-to-starting-city-tc/#comment-1232506 Mon, 08 Sep 2025 15:35:40 +0000 https://www.legalcheek.com/?p=223660#comment-1232506 In reply to What a joke.

Well done Ines! You’re an inspiration! Following you.

]]> By: Grad Rec https://www.legalcheek.com/2025/08/dla-piper-trainee-shares-her-extraordinary-journey-from-cleaning-offices-in-london-to-starting-city-tc/#comment-1231834 Thu, 04 Sep 2025 07:40:22 +0000 https://www.legalcheek.com/?p=223660#comment-1231834 Unlike other firms, DLA Piper closes their applications when they have sufficient candidates
So uh, maybe they shouldn’t do that.

]]> By: What a joke https://www.legalcheek.com/2025/08/dla-piper-trainee-shares-her-extraordinary-journey-from-cleaning-offices-in-london-to-starting-city-tc/#comment-1231739 Wed, 03 Sep 2025 13:50:16 +0000 https://www.legalcheek.com/?p=223660#comment-1231739 DLA made a terrible mistake when offering her a training contract. Look at her latest posts on LinkedIn.

No client will want her working on their files.

Why on earth is Legal Cheek promoting her shameless self-promotion when she can’t even handle being a trainee?

]]> By: Pingi https://www.legalcheek.com/2025/08/dla-piper-trainee-shares-her-extraordinary-journey-from-cleaning-offices-in-london-to-starting-city-tc/#comment-1231353 Mon, 01 Sep 2025 06:43:23 +0000 https://www.legalcheek.com/?p=223660#comment-1231353 I know a barrister who claims that having a bog-cleaning job on his CV got him his pupillage, so there may be something in that!

]]> By: Anon https://www.legalcheek.com/2025/08/dla-piper-trainee-shares-her-extraordinary-journey-from-cleaning-offices-in-london-to-starting-city-tc/#comment-1231050 Sat, 30 Aug 2025 07:00:24 +0000 https://www.legalcheek.com/?p=223660#comment-1231050 I do not understand why everyone is being so mean to this young woman when she’s worked extraordinarily hard to secure a training contract.

]]> By: Anonymous https://www.legalcheek.com/2025/08/dla-piper-trainee-shares-her-extraordinary-journey-from-cleaning-offices-in-london-to-starting-city-tc/#comment-1230963 Fri, 29 Aug 2025 18:16:26 +0000 https://www.legalcheek.com/?p=223660#comment-1230963 In reply to Alv.

Seems like a ridiculous response, Alv. Please quote your sources to back up this claim.

]]> By: Anon https://www.legalcheek.com/2025/08/dla-piper-trainee-shares-her-extraordinary-journey-from-cleaning-offices-in-london-to-starting-city-tc/#comment-1230901 Fri, 29 Aug 2025 13:46:45 +0000 https://www.legalcheek.com/?p=223660#comment-1230901 Didn’t she fail SQE2? My advice to Inês is that she ought to focus on studying lol

]]> By: 1PQE https://www.legalcheek.com/2025/08/dla-piper-trainee-shares-her-extraordinary-journey-from-cleaning-offices-in-london-to-starting-city-tc/#comment-1230898 Fri, 29 Aug 2025 13:42:35 +0000 https://www.legalcheek.com/?p=223660#comment-1230898 In her last post on linkedin it seems she failed SQE 2, so maybe not lol….

Anyways, i hope her drafting ability improves because god help any contract she drafts if its like her last post!

]]> By: Alv https://www.legalcheek.com/2025/08/dla-piper-trainee-shares-her-extraordinary-journey-from-cleaning-offices-in-london-to-starting-city-tc/#comment-1230880 Fri, 29 Aug 2025 12:17:31 +0000 https://www.legalcheek.com/?p=223660#comment-1230880 In reply to Donald Joffers.

That’s disingenuous. Part time jobs in hospitality etc are common among law students. Few cleaners become lawyers.

]]> By: Misc https://www.legalcheek.com/2025/08/dla-piper-trainee-shares-her-extraordinary-journey-from-cleaning-offices-in-london-to-starting-city-tc/#comment-1230879 Fri, 29 Aug 2025 12:16:06 +0000 https://www.legalcheek.com/?p=223660#comment-1230879 What’s so difficult to understand? Getting a TC is seen as the holy grail – the pinnacle of achievement. If someone lands an NQ salary, they might assume they can stay on it for life and be set. That’s why articles like this describe a “promotion” to a training contract as if it’s akin to making partner. It’s satire, but it captures some truths – like the very high NQ pay, which for many is an aspiration in itself.

]]> By: Donald Joffers https://www.legalcheek.com/2025/08/dla-piper-trainee-shares-her-extraordinary-journey-from-cleaning-offices-in-london-to-starting-city-tc/#comment-1230874 Fri, 29 Aug 2025 11:49:14 +0000 https://www.legalcheek.com/?p=223660#comment-1230874 Most of us have had jobs prior to becoming lawyers. Some clean, others work in retail, some work in hospitality (and beyond!). I’m not sure I understand the angle here…

]]> By: Trainee https://www.legalcheek.com/2025/08/dla-piper-trainee-shares-her-extraordinary-journey-from-cleaning-offices-in-london-to-starting-city-tc/#comment-1230860 Fri, 29 Aug 2025 10:41:06 +0000 https://www.legalcheek.com/?p=223660#comment-1230860 Inspiring story. Well done Ines! You’ll smash the TC. Don’t let the imposter syndrome win!

]]> By: Observer https://www.legalcheek.com/2025/08/dla-piper-trainee-shares-her-extraordinary-journey-from-cleaning-offices-in-london-to-starting-city-tc/#comment-1230848 Fri, 29 Aug 2025 10:14:02 +0000 https://www.legalcheek.com/?p=223660#comment-1230848 Social media is a challenge for firms. She’s obviously a big character. Will be interesting to see how DLA approach this.

]]> By: City Trainee https://www.legalcheek.com/2025/08/dla-piper-trainee-shares-her-extraordinary-journey-from-cleaning-offices-in-london-to-starting-city-tc/#comment-1230834 Fri, 29 Aug 2025 09:36:42 +0000 https://www.legalcheek.com/?p=223660#comment-1230834 Not one of your finest, legal cheek.

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