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Work Environment:
Being a solicitor it'd be your task to give advice to clients regarding the law, and work on your clients behalf in legal issues, and these clients can include public associations, individuals, firms or groups of people.
As a solicitor, you can work in various settings, comprising:
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You'd often decide to do specialization in a specific field of law.
Your tasks would change in accordance with the setting, although might usually comprise:
Qualification, Education and Experience:
You should first fulfill the required academic requirements, and then you should accomplish vocational training, to be a solicitor.
Within Wales and England, you could fulfill the academic requirements in any of the modes given as below:
After fulfilling the academic requirements, you should then accomplish the LPC (Legal Practice Course). You could take the LPC for 2 years part time or 1 year full time.
See the websites of the Law Central Applications Board or Solicitors' Regulation Authority, for information about LPC courses
For further details and career case studies of successful solicitors, check the website of Law Society.
Within Northern-Ireland, you could accomplish the academic phase by:
Training Details:
Within Wales and England, when you've fulfilled the academic requirements and accomplished the LPC, you should get additional-training by:
If you're an entitled legal executive, you don't generally have to accomplish a training contract, although you should still complete the Professional-Skills Course.
When you've completely qualified, you should also participate in training and development programs every year all through your vocation. The Law-Societies execute obligatory CPD (Continuing-Professional Development) programs to assist member accomplish this.
For further details regarding the vocational phase and continuing professional development within Wales and England or in Northern Ireland, check the website of the related Law Society.
Skills and knowledge:
Salary and Other Benefits:
Working Conditions:
You'd generally work weekly for around 38 hours, although you might be required to work for longer hours. In few works, you may need to work on-call at bank holidays and weekends, or have to visit police-stations at anytime of the night or day.
You'd be working within an office. Sometimes you might be required to travel to attend meetings or meet clients. You'd employ much of your time in court, if you specialized into criminal law.
Different Opportunities:
The majority of solicitors work within private practice, for companies ranging from small firms to large law companies. You can also discover work chances with charities, central and regional government, businesses, the courts service, law centers, and Crown Prosecution.
Employment openings might be publicized by the legal, regional and national press, and legal recruitment organizations.
By experience, within private-practice you can ultimately get a partnership in a company of solicitors. And as a commercial solicitor you can administer an in-house legal division. Then again, you can decide to acquire additional training to be a barrister.
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You'll usually require minimum 5 GCSE grades (A to C) and 2 A levels, or alternatives like Higher Education qualification, to achieve a degree in law. Few universities might demand you to accomplish LNAT (National Admissions-Test for Law) before admitting for a degree in law. For correct admission requirements, check with providers of course.
Furthermore, you should accomplish a traineeship for around 2 to 4 years by a solicitor. This'll comprise a study for a year at the University of Ulster within Londonderry or the Institution of Professional Legal Studies within Belfast. For further information, contact the Law Society of Northern Ireland.
For information on the PSC and training contracts, visit the website of the Law Society.