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career in law after psychology degree?

i would like a career in law, but I find psychology much more interesting and would like to study it at uni. I don't think I could make it as a professional psychologist because I'd be more likely to pick a fight with my clients (hence the whole lawyer thing) than to help them.
OR could i do economics degree then get a training thingy at a law firm??

So does anybody know anyone who's done this or is planning to?
Any advice would be great
Thanks!

Reply 1

youll need to do an extra law course after ur degree if it isnt law, and after u then do the LPC if u want to be a solicitor or BVC if u want to goto the bar.

Not doing a law degree doesnt mean ur disadvantaged at all... its just that someone ppl live and breathe law and want to do a law degree and ALSO pursue it after.

50% of lawyers did a degree other than law. As long as u show ur potential in whatever u study.. through 2.1 or 1st class degree and a good institution ull be fine.

tbh, if u have any doubt about taking a law degree anyway, u shud def not be doing it.

any questions just ask in the law forum or u can pm me.

Reply 2

isabella19
i would like a career in law, but I find psychology much more interesting and would like to study it at uni. I don't think I could make it as a professional psychologist because I'd be more likely to pick a fight with my clients (hence the whole lawyer thing) than to help them.
OR could i do economics degree then get a training thingy at a law firm??

So does anybody know anyone who's done this or is planning to?
Any advice would be great
Thanks!



I am thinking the same as you!! i am really intested in psychology and law, i was thinking of doing a degree in psychology first then doing a law conversion degree if i wasnt too much in love with a career in psychology. I also recently saw that some degree courses you can mix both psychology and law but i am not sure if enough of each of the subjects is tought to give the chance to persue a career in either subjects , i think its probably more law with a small section of psychology, or psychology with a small section of law..
good luck :smile: