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As a legal associate, you’ll offer expert assistance to solicitors and barristers, as well as handling minor cases yourself and performing various support activities. Here you can find out more about how to get into this field and what your days might involve as a legal associate.
In your role as a legal associate, you’ll work across a range of areas within the legal sphere. You’ll typically be employed by a legal firm, supporting a solicitor or barrister in their work across areas like commercial law, personal and family law, insurance and injury claims, criminal law and more. You might use this role as a stepping-stone to a career as a solicitor.
Your responsibilities usually include going to court with solicitors or barristers to help them present cases for clients, carrying out interviews, collecting information and creating documents, and otherwise assisting with the work of legal executives. You’ll find the detail and challenge of legal work rewarding.
Daily tasks will vary but could involve:
The average salary for a legal associate professional in the UK is £34,840. Graduates start at around £22,000.
Roles in multinational legal firms could involve travel overseas, while in other cases you may need to travel across the county to complete casework or liaise with colleagues.
In this role, you’ll often need to be at a court or office to carry out your responsibilities, but some of your work can be done from home.
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