This might sound like an odd query but I’ve just started a summer placement with a magic circle firm. I’m enjoying the placement but I’ve heard that the firm has a reputation for offering training contracts to pretty girls or sporty/rowing types – this certainly seems to be the case if the younger lawyers on my floor are anything to go by.
It’s not that I feel frumpy but I certainly don’t fit into that mould. I have even heard that associates at another top firm were exchanging scorecards on this year’s vacation placement students. Bearing this in mind, how do I go about impressing enough to be considered for a training contract interview without brown-nosing? Is it even worth the bother if this is the kind of schoolyard way the firm operates?
