 Hi, my name is Courtney and before I came to Cambridge I was a qualified lawyer in South Africa having completed my law degree at a university in Johannesburg Thereafter I completed my training contract and worked as an associate at a leading corporate firm The MCL was quite an intense program and having exams every term which made it distinct from the LLM program But at the end of the year we had more of a break than the LLM students a highlights of the MCL for me Would have to have been the deals course. We got to engage in discussions with practitioners on full corporate transactions Which was definitely a highlight having come come from a corporate law firm and going back into corporates afterwards One of my favorite subjects would have to have been the law firm as a business Where we got to understand how the how law firms operate from a management perspective And I think this would give insight to both lawyers Returning back to an associate position and those that have ambitions to climb the ladder into a management role later on I really enjoyed the Cambridge experience as a whole The MCL group was really diverse and we got to meet a lot of people from different countries And my college experience personally was also great I was at Wolfson College and it was a really diverse and mature college I also participated in some extracurricular activities I was president of the Graduate Law Society and that helped me make a network Amongst other law students doing the LLM and the PhD program My plans after the MCL are to return to a corporate job, but I will be starting a new job at a firm in London I will also be writing the QLTS exam to qualify as a UK solicitor