Graduate Tookit
Law
General information sources
Joining one of the four Inns of Court
- Gray's Inn
- The Inner Temple
- Lincoln's Inn
- Middle Temple
- Authorised Education and Training Organisations (AETOs)
- General information on Bar courses
Relevant work experience
- Marshalling
- Pro-bono work - Citizens Advice / Free Representation Unit
- Public speaking
- Paid law work experience
- Prospects advice on seeking law work experience
Jobs are available via
Arbitrator
- Association for International Arbitration (AIA)
- International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)
- London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA)
- London Maritime Arbitrators Association (LMAA)
- Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb)
- The Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas)
- CIArb - Training
- Young Arbitrators Forum (YAF)
- Young ArbitralWomen Practitioners (YAWP)
- The Legal 500, Solictors, International Arbitration
- The Legal 500, The Bar, London Bar, International Arbitration: Counsel
Barrister
Barristers Clerk
Chartered Legal Executive
- CILEx Graduate Fast-track Diploma (GFTD) (Level 6 Diploma in Legal Practice)
- CILEx - Careers
- CILEx Recruitment
- Civil Service Job Search
- The Law Society Gazette
- The Lawyer
- Simply Law Jobs
Company Secretary
Costs Lawyer
Detective
Licensed Conveyancer
Paralegal
- CILEx (Chartered Institute of Legal Executives)
- National Association of Licensed Paralegals (NALP)
- Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL)
- Breakdown of the UK Top Law Firms
- LawCareers.net
- Legal Week Jobs
- Simply Law Jobs
- The Lawyer
- Totally Legal
- BCL Legal Recruitment
- EJ Legal
- Law Absolute
- The professional body for Paralegals
Solicitor
If you have graduated in a non-law related discipline, you may wish to look into a law conversion course.
- Prospects
- Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA)
- Qualification to Solicitor via Apprenticeship route
- Chartered Legal Executive route to qualifying as a solicitor
- Law Society
- SRA – Examination
- SRA - Statistics
- How to search for a law training contract
- CPS
- GLS
- Law Society Gazette
- LawCareers.Net
- The Lawyer
- The Student Chambers Guide
- LawCareers.Net Handbook
- Junior Lawyers Division
A comprehensive list of other roles open, where a law degree would be useful, but not directly related to the field of law.