Seeking Guidance: Navigating the Next Steps Toward Becoming a Solicitor
I recently graduated with first-class honours in LLB Law from a non-Russell Group university. Despite the achievement, I found the experience incredibly challenging and stressful, and I feel that I still lack the comprehensive knowledge required to become a solicitor. Currently, I am torn between pursuing an LLM combined with either the SQE or the LPC. I want to include a Master’s degree to help fund the course. As much as I am passionate about law, I am still uncertain about which area of law I want to specialize in. Although I found the LLB overwhelming, my desire to become a solicitor remains strong. Could anyone offer advice on the best path to take? If anyone has done the LLM/LPC at Westminster please let me know how you found it.
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by Amysmithx I recently graduated with first-class honours in LLB Law from a non-Russell Group university. Despite the achievement, I found the experience incredibly challenging and stressful, and I feel that I still lack the comprehensive knowledge required to become a solicitor. Currently, I am torn between pursuing an LLM combined with either the SQE or the LPC. I want to include a Master’s degree to help fund the course. As much as I am passionate about law, I am still uncertain about which area of law I want to specialize in. Although I found the LLB overwhelming, my desire to become a solicitor remains strong. Could anyone offer advice on the best path to take? If anyone has done the LLM/LPC at Westminster please let me know how you found it.
Well done on getting a first class! I would advise you to work as a paralegal in as many areas as possible (if you haven't already, seeing as your post was 5 months ago) until you find the right fit and to take the SQE route. I personally did the LPC route back in 2017, but if I had the choice, I would have taken the SQE if it were available then. Good luck!
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Why do you wish to be a solicitor if you found studying law at university overwhelming? Practising law is more labour intensive and stressful than studying law. Legal practice is nothing like the depictions of it in TV and films.
Also, many (not all) solicitors are engaged in a form of process management that does not require much engagement with the law, save in a rather formulaic way. Some specialist solicitors know a lot of law, so you would be best off finding a specialism which calls for legal knowledge and not just process and client management skills. I would have suggested the Bar, but practice at the Bar has an intensity which you might not welcome if you found university to be overwhelming.
Also, many (not all) solicitors are engaged in a form of process management that does not require much engagement with the law, save in a rather formulaic way. Some specialist solicitors know a lot of law, so you would be best off finding a specialism which calls for legal knowledge and not just process and client management skills. I would have suggested the Bar, but practice at the Bar has an intensity which you might not welcome if you found university to be overwhelming.
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