Careers, Employability and Skills
Contact Info
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Duty Adviser hours are 10.30am-4.30pm
Legal
The Legal services sector is only one area of Law where you can build your career. This resource provides an introduction to legal education providers, the main law societies in the UK and Ireland, related legal agencies and employers. The annual Law Fair and the law careers programmes semester one and two provide further contacts and resources.
Further information on types of job can be found on Prospects Explore Types of Job and Gradireland Career Sectors.
More about different employment options with your degree can be found on Prospects Options With Your Subject and Law Careers Alternative Careers.
Online Resources:
Solicitors| Barristers| Ancillary Legal Professionals
Solicitors
| Education Providers in Northern Ireland | |
| Institute of Professional Legal Studies, Queen's University Belfast | www.qub.ac.uk/schools/InstituteofProfessionalLegalStudies |
| Graduate School of Professional Legal Education, University of Ulster | www.socsci.ulst.ac.uk/gsple/index.html |
| Education Providers in UK | |
| BPP Law School | www.bpplawschool.com |
| Bristol Institute of Legal Practice, UWE | http://bilp.uwe.ac.uk |
| The City Law School | www.city.ac.uk/law |
| London Metropolitan University | www.londonmet.ac.uk |
| Northumbria Law School | www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/law/ |
| Nottingham Law School | www.ntu.ac.uk/nls |
| www.brookes.ac.uk/oxilp | |
| UK | |
| College of Law | www.college-of-law.co.uk |
| Council for Licensed Conveyancers | www.conveyancers.org.uk |
| Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service | www.crownoffice.gov.uk |
| Government Legal Services | www.gls.gov.uk |
| Institute of Legal Executives | www.ilex.org.uk |
| Institute of Professional Legal Studies | www.qub.ac.uk/ipls |
| Legal Aid Practitioners Group | www.lapg.co.uk |
| Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission | www.nihrc.org |
| Scottish Association of Law Centres | www.govanlc.com/salc |
| Solicitors Regulation Authority | www.sra.org.uk |
| The Law Society of England and Wales | www.lawsociety.org.uk |
| The Law Society of Northern Ireland | www.lawsoc-ni.org/ |
| The Law Society of Scotland | www.lawscot.org.uk |
| Trainee Solicitors Group | www.tsg.org |
| Republic of Ireland | |
| Irish Law | www.ucc.ie/ucc/depts/law/irishlaw/ |
| Law Society of Ireland | www.lawsociety.ie |
| Sources of vacancies: | |
| LPA Legal | http://lpalegal.com |
Barristers
| UK | |
| Bar Council | www.barcouncil.org.uk |
| Bar Standards Board | www.barstandardsboard.org.uk |
| Bar Library (Northern Ireland) | www.barlibrary.com |
| Chancery Bar Association | www.chba.org.uk |
| Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn | www.graysinn.info |
| Faculty of Advocates | www.advocates.org.uk |
| Inner Temple | www.innertemple.org.uk |
| Institute of Professional Legal Studies | www.qub.ac.uk/ipls/index.html |
| Lincolns Inn | www.lincolnsinn.org.uk/ |
| Middle Temple | www.middletemple.org.uk |
| Republic of Ireland | |
| The Honourable Society of the King’s Inn | www.kingsinns.ie |
| The Law Library of Ireland | www.lawlibrary.ie |
Ancillary Legal Professionals
| Council for Licensed Conveyancers | www.conveyancer.org.uk |
| Institute of Barristers’ Clerk | www.ibc.org.uk |
| The Institute of Legal Executives | www.ilex.org.uk |
| Chartered Institute of Legal Executives | www.ilexcareers.org.uk |
| Institute of Paralegals | www.theiop.org |
| The National Association of Paralegals | www.nationalparalegals.com |
Further Reading
We have a number of reference materials available in the Careers and Employability Information Area in the Student Guidance Centre as well as some online resources listed below.
Prospects industry insights and Gradireland sector career guides will help you to search for employment in this employment sector.
Gradireland Career Sector Guides
| Moving Into Law Careers Guide |
This information is obtained from a variety of sources, including the Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services (AGCAS), Association of Higher Education Careers Services (AHECS), Prospects, Gradireland and relevant professional organisations and other appropriate resources, as available.
We endeavour to ensure that our online resources are current and contain relevant information. However, we cannot accept responsibility for the contents of external websites.