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Why should trainee solicitors, or those who aspire to that status, expect to be shielded from market realities in a manner that other graduates are not? I know of a number of graduates who are still, some time on, working as unpaid 'interns' as a means of, they hope, getting their feet under the table, and thus a paid job, with the organisation for whom they are working or, at least, getting something tangible on their CVs in order to improve their prospects of achieving paid employment elsewhere. After all, these individuals chose to go to university and to study for the LPC. If they wanted paid work from day one, they could have gone into a job after 'A' levels rather than, with open eyes, walking into four years of debt creation without any settled prospect of well paid employment at the end of it.

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