Graduate Legal & Law Jobs
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Start salary: £15,000-35,000
Professional salary: Often in excess of £100,000. The sky's the limit if you have the right clients.
Required qualifications:Typically, a law degree/GDL, followed by BPTC/LPC and a training contract. Alternatively, vocational courses, such as ILEX can be a route in.
Jobs available: In 2009, approximately 0.7% of the UK workforce was employed in legal services but last year it saw a fall of -0.9%*
Due to the recession; training contracts are now extremely competitive, compared to the 2008 rate, and the amount of applicants for each vacancy have tripled. Solicitors provide legal advice and services to the general public, businesses and government. This may include drawing up wills and contacts, property law, protecting clients' human rights, advising businesses on their own legal framework, and when necessary to take legal action against others (e.g. copyright infringement) right up to criminal law.
Most barristers work in litigation, taking on cases which have become the subject of formal court action or a law suit, and representing clients at the Bar. There is usually less of a relationship between barristers and their clients, and barristers traditionally tend to specialise in a few areas of law, with solicitors providing the more general advice.
Graduate Law Employers
| Herbert Smith | Herbert Smith is a leading and full-service international legal pr... | more |
| Denton Wilde Sapte | We offer the full range of commercial legal services, working stra... | more |
| DLA Piper | With more than 3,700 lawyers in 64 offices in 25 countries, we hel... | more |
| Mills & Reeve | Mills & Reeve is one of the UK's leading full-service law firms. W... | more |
| Lovells | Lovells is one of the largest international legal practices in the... | more |
| Clifford Chance | Get your legal career off to an excellent start. Join one of our p... | more |
| Addleshaw Goddard | Addleshaw Goddard is most definitely a firm on the move. Based in ... | more |
| Freshfields | With more than 2,500 lawyers working across 26 offices in 15 diffe... | more |
| Eversheds | Eversheds LLP is one of the largest full service international law... | more |
Latest Graduate Law Jobs
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Graduate Law Case Studies
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VICTORIA MOREMON - SOLICITORVictoria Moremon is a solicitor working across the private client and residential property and land estates departments at Latimer Hinks. She studied law at Teesside University ... more |
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PUJA MEHAN - TRAINEE SOLICITORPuja Mehan is a Trainee Solicitor with Herbet Smith. She studied Law LLB at King's College, University of London. ... more |
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MICHAEL SKREIN - CSR PARTNERMichael Skrein is the CSR Partner for Reed Smith. He studied modern history at Oxford before doing and MA in international relations in California. ... more |
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CIARAN PRICE-TRAINEE SOLICITORCiaran Price is second-seat trainee solicitor, in Osborne Clarke's Commercial Litigation department. He studied History at Cardiff University before going on to do the GDL at UWE in Bristol and then the LPC back in Cardiff. ... more |
Graduate Law Advice
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