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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.
Your role as a legal associate might be a route towards working as a solicitor or barrister later in your career.
After qualifying to practice law, you’ll usually get a supervised role as a legal associate or barrister’s clerk. With experience, you could get roles as a senior legal associate before progressing to assistant solicitor or senior solicitor level. Eventually, you might become a partner in a law firm or start your own solicitor’s office.
Self-employment is common for experienced solicitors who want to run their own legal firm and choose their clients.
Courses, conferences and networking events through institutions like The Law Society will help you stay up to date with changes to national or international laws, along with developments in the industry.
In-house or external courses will allow you to build core skills in key areas like writing, researching and interviewing.
Further studies or research is useful for building expertise in certain legal areas and moving towards more specialised roles.
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