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Tree13 said:
This.

Also ask yourself what area of law you might be interested in working in once you qualify - you'll be chasing summer vacation scheme places from your second undergrad year and if you don't get one you'll have no chance of getting sponsored to do the LPC / PGDipL, meaning you'll have to pay the course fees yourself (mine was £8000 at Bristol in 2004, I believe some are now £12,000 and upwards). The summer vac schemes are run by the solicitors' firms and are ridiculously competitive; they are used as an extended pre-interview by the firms to work out who they might recruit.

If you somehow raise the cash for the postgrad yourself, you will graduate from that into a closed jobs market - all the kids that did vac schemes two years previous will have pre-contracts for trainee positions upon graduation and there will be little if anything out there for anyone else. The legal industry has been cost-cutting without precedent since 2008, with some firms cancelling entire trainee intakes at short or no notice.

Finally, unless you want to do corporate law, taxation law or mergers and acquisitions, there's no money in the job. Don't believe the rubbish you read in the papers about legal aid throwing money at criminal or family lawyers, it's simply not true. Conveyancing is a loss-leader for many firms, probate is only worth anything if the client is a high net-worth individual. Employment law is supposed to be doing ok but i don't know any rich employment lawyers.

If Barristry is more your thing, consider this: the going rate for a junior on a criminal legal aid case in the magistrates' court outside London is £85 plus VAT. For the entire day. Some Chambers won't even take the instructions anymore.

And all this before we discuss the bias in favour of female grads with non-law first degrees..... Law is a fascinating subject to study at Uni but it's no guarantee of a job upon graduation. Law is a much harder course than most (check the stats regarding % of first class degrees in law compared to other subjects) and if you want to work in Law your choice of university makes a HUGE difference due to the entrenched beliefs in the legal industry about which universities are "proper" unis and which are not.
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Furthermore most of the solicitors I come into contact with hate their job.
 
Penno said:
Furthermore most of the solicitors I come into contact with hate their job.
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That's unusual but I guess it depends what branch of law and who their client base are - I can imagine dealing with family disputes and petty criminals would be quite depressing (ps not casting judgement on the type of solicitors you meet and why lol)
 
Leighton Staines said:
Alright lads, thinking about studying law at Uni next year, does anyone do it or know anyone who does it, and what do they think about it? Thanks in advance.
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Yes, it will serve you well. Opens many fields and offers a wide varity of opportunities in many careers. If u take it seriously, u can forget about the ale for the next few years though. You will get the detractors, it comes with the package, but a noble profession.
 

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