The Beginner’s Guide to a Career in Law

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First-year checklist

What to do as a first-year law or non-law university student

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Apprenticeships

Another route to get into law

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Key law career questions

Find answers to some of the most commonly asked questions about a career in the legal sector

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Key law career deadlines

Discover several key events and deadlines that you need to diarise

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Reality check

Without wanting to detract from the exciting and challenging legal career on offer, here are some things to bear in mind

Beginner's Guide

First steps checklist

Here's what you can do even before you start university

First-year checklist

Find out what you should be doing in your first year at university as a law or non-law student

Meet the Lawyer

Read how today's lawyers went from student to qualified lawyer

Legal career paths

Take a look at our simple career timetable

Meet the Recruiter

Toby Tompkins

Toby Tompkins, the talent attraction assistant at Ashfords LLP, explains how the firm is adopting the Solicitors Qualifying Exam, the importance of diversity and inclusion, and what the firm’s assessment centres look like.

Meet the Lawyer

Graeme Anderson

Corporate associate Graeme Anderson outlines his early experience in the profession and how it’s shaped his career today at Hill Dickinson.

Meet the Lawyer

Lucia Bizikova

Trainees at DLA Piper are given real responsibility and opportunities to get involved in international work at an early stage. Newly-qualified lawyer Lucia offers an insight into the mix of high-end transactional and contentious work that the firm is known for.

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Belonging at the Bar: women’s journey from barriers to barristers

Silk, Anatomy of a Scandal, The Split, Legally Blonde… the list goes on! We’re no strangers to women in the courtroom on TV but very few (if any) programmes express the difficulty women have faced getting to this point. For those who choose the barrister route, the road for women has been one paved with various obstacles. To this day, there are fewer women at the Bar than those practising as solicitors (38.8% compared with 52%).

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About the legal sector

What lawyers do

Learn more about the branches of the legal profession, areas of law, and practice areas

Types of lawyers

Read our table of key facts to help you distinguish between the different types of lawyers

Paralegals

Find out about this distinct group of legal professionals

News

Law firm profits rise despite a decrease in claimed billable hours

Working from home may be damaging law firms’ productivity despite sustained levels of high profit, new research by the Law Society has revealed.

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The University of Law partners with Royal Holloway to deliver SQE prep courses

The University of Law has announced an exclusive partnership with Royal Holloway, University of London that will see it deliver a number of its postgraduate courses from September 2023.

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Birketts announces 40% female partnership

UK top 50 law firm Birketts LLP has achieved 40% female partnership ahead of International Women’s Day 2023, following its ongoing commitment to supporting gender diversity.

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Law Society agrees to trial regional admission ceremonies

Following a campaign by in-house lawyer and blogger Emma Lilley, the Law Society has agreed to trial regional admission ceremonies in a bid to improve access.

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