LC.N TCPH 2020

Career timetable

Confused about the career path to becoming a lawyer? Follow the career timetable below to plot out your route into law.

GCSE

A level

Intermediate apprenticeship

Paralegal apprenticeship

CILEx Level 3 Certificate

Non-law degree

Law degree

Solicitor apprenticeship

GDL

CILEx Level 3 Diploma

CILEx Level 6

Chartered legal executive apprenticeship

BPTC

LPC

CILEx Fast Track

3 years’ qualifying employment

Pupillage Training contract

Solicitor

Chartered legal executive

Barrister

Paralegal

Equivalent means cross-qualification

Further reading For more on the solicitors’ career timetable, see p146. For more on the barristers’ career timetable, see p464. For more on the chartered legal executive timetable, see p141. For more on legal apprenticeships, pick up a copy of The Law Apprenticeships Guide 2020 . Change ahead: the Solicitors Qualifying Examination Anyone who starts an undergraduate degree after Autumn 2021 will have to take the Solicitors Qualifying Examination, a new assessment that must be passed to qualify as a solicitor. This will replace the current GDL and LPC courses, and the period of recognised training may also change. For more information, read the “SRA chapter” on p139 and go to LawCareers.Net – search “Solicitors Qualifying Examination”.

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