What to do with a degree in law?
Find out what options are available if you want to leave the legal world behind you. Photograph: Ian Waldie/Getty Images
There’s a strong connection between studying a law degree and going on to work in the legal profession. However, before you present us with the obvious fact of the week award, it’s not the case that every law student will go on to don a barrister’s wig, or become a solicitor.
And, unless you’re utterly convinced, to borrow some legal terminology, beyond a reasonable doubt, that a high-flying law career is for you, it’s important to remember there are other choices out there, according to blogger Tim Bratton.
He wrote: “If you want to go and work in Big Law having thought about it, then great, it offers an excellent career. But do it because you want to, not because you turned up to a milkround and it seemed like the easy thing to do.”
He’s right; there are plenty of alternative professions for law students who decide they don’t have their heart set on the legal profession. Plus, there are many sectors which value the skills they have picked up along the way.
Popular types of work are marketing, within the business and finance sector and social and welfare careers, according to a recent Guardian Money piece. Law graduates’ skills would also come in very handy in human resources management, accountancy, the patent agency, trading standards, the police service and advice work, Margaret Holbrough, a careers adviser at Graduate Prospects, pointed out in the piece.
So, if you’ve got a law degree and you’d like to know more about what awaits post-graduation, we’re holding a live Q&A to offer you advice. We’ll be examining the whole spectrum of legal careers and postgraduate training, as well as other sectors which value a law graduate, so join us on Wednesday 27 July – advance questions welcome.To keep up-to-date with our regular Q&A sessions, you can now sign-up for our newsletter here.
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