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Hello,

I was just thinking today that maybe i dont want to go to university and perhaps i would be much happier to work,earn and study at the same time,quite a task but i think it might be better for me.

I have already applied to uni's so thats still on the cards but what do you guys think? Would i still have the same chances as solicitors with degrees or would i get shunned away....

Any help would be great

Matt

Reply 1

viviki

You can do a legal exec qualification and then do the CPE I think and then the LPC but bypass the training contract if you are in the fellowship of legal execs or whatever it is for long enough. One of the girls on my course is doing it. After the LPC she just has to do the fast track professional skills thing and then thats it.

Reply 2

Legal__Eagle

So i have to do the CPE? which is fair enough but the LPC aswell?

Reply 3

viviki

To be a solictor after being a legal exec without going to uni yes I think.

Just to be a legal exec nope.

Look here

http://www.lawsociety.org.uk/becomingasolicitor/waystoqualify/qualifynodegree.law

My friend gets to escape the training contract because shes been in practice and so has exemptions i think

http://www.lawsociety.org.uk/becomingasolicitor.law

Reply 4

Legal__Eagle

Ahh right...so if i just wanted to stay as a legal exec would i still have to do a cpe? and even though the title suggests that i would be a legal exec am i still classed as a solicitor? Sorry to be a newsence

Reply 5

viviki

Read the link i posted. No you would be a legal executive.
A legal executive is a member of the institute of legal executives you would not be a solicitor.

You become a legal executive like this http://www.ilex.org.uk/howto_qualify/default.asp

You can become a solicitor without doing a degree if you are already a legal executive which was my first link but its really lengthy.

Thanx

A few weeks ago werent you asking about part time law? If so then why dont you do a part time law degree whilst working in a solicitors office or somewhere?