Do law Enployers care about A levels?

So basically I understand my grades are too low for a training contract but i thought about taking the legal executives route then on graduation year I convert to a solicitor. So eventhough i get a first in university and a full solicitor licence will employers at city law firms still look at my A levels?

My grades were DDD

Reply 1

bobbybrown12

Forgot to mention, i am taking the fast track route to legal executives so i would have a level 6 in law and practice with my law degree. I am currently doing a foundation year at the moment

Reply 2

bobbybrown12

Original post by J-SP

It won’t be the A-levels they are looking at, it will be the work experience you have gained, which as a legal exec route is not going to match the type of Work most city trainees do

So how can i gain work experience? I was planning to do some during uni

Reply 3

bobbybrown12

Original post by J-SP

It isn’t just work experience though, it’s working in the type of firms with the same type of clients. Legal executives tend to not work on the same type of work as city trainees. You can’t get that level of work unless you are really on a training contract or get exceptionally lucky with some form of paralegal role.