| Advocate Careers |
Work Environment:
As an advocate (in Scotland), you'd provide legal advice to professional clients and solicitors, and act on behalf of organizations and individuals at tribunals or in court. You'd sometimes recognized as counsel, and do similar work as barristers in Northern Ireland, England and Wales.
Being an advocate, your job would comprise:
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Qualification, Education and Experience:
You must fulfill the academic requirements of Faculty of Advocates and also accomplish vocational training, to be an advocate.
Before beginning your training, you should hold any of following qualifications to enroll with the Faculty as a trainee member:
Most of the advocates begin their training immediately after gaining degree in law, although this isn't necessary.
Training Details:
After accomplishing the academic phase, you should get further training to be eligible to work as an advocate. To achieve this, you should accomplish:
Skills and knowledge:
Salary and Other Benefits:
The majority of advocates work on freelance basis, so earnings can rely on the number of cases worked on and reputation.
Working Conditions:
Your hours of working would generally be long and might comprise weekends and evenings.
Being an advocate within private-practice, you'd be working in Advocate's Library in Edinburgh within advocate's group, and divide working time between court and group.
Then again, you may work for particular employer like the Procurator-Fiscal Service or a commercial firm, working in employer's offices and attending tribunals, meetings and court as required.
While in court you'd put on formal outfit comprising a gown and wig, otherwise business-outfit is anticipated.
Different Opportunities:
The majority of advocates work on freelance basis. Then again, you can decide to work in regional or central government, or as a legal adviser for a commercial firm.
By experience, you can be a depute within the Crown Office and Procurator-Fiscal Service, or a sheriff. After practice of about 10 years, you can apply to take-silk and be a judge, or be a Queen's Counsel (senior advocate).
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The time period you employ within court will rely on the kind of case you're working on. Criminal cases will include you to spend more time preparing for cases and presenting in court, while in civil law, or chancery law (giving advices on estates, wills, trusts and company law), your job will be office based.
You'll require minimum five S grades (1 to 3), and 5 Higher with English, to gain a degree in Scottish law. Other qualifications might be allowed, thus for correct admission requirements, check with distinct providers of course.
After qualifying, you should maintain your knowledge and skills updated all through your vocation. You could carry on your career development through participating into the Faculty's continuing-education program of conferences, seminars, workshops and courses.