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Thanks for the comment, I don't quite agree with what you say however....

- I worked with top tier solicitors in patent litigation, not directly with patent attorneys - who are extremely specialised

- The current ‘safe guards’ referred to in the recruitment process include an HR person vetting the applicants from a piece of paper and a couple of conversations with high level fee earners. It is hardly Fort Knox. Thomas O'Riordan was a top litigator at a major law firm in London who got caught out for fraud as people found out he lied about his academic qualifications. Good safe guards there.....

- It is also an absolute joke how an experienced paralegal has a capped salary, no overtime pay and nothing to show for it (they just have the carrot dangled in front and are told to be quiet and move on). In the past this was accepted because it eventually did lead to a TC. However in our current
market, we are seen as a work force with cheap charge out rates, as if everyone wants to be a career paralegal like it’s the latest craze.

- I do agree that any application for this kind of qualification needs to be looked at with scrutiny on a case by case basis in case of rubber stamping and dodgy LPC providers. But the small amount of bad should not discount the good this could do.