Law
The new route to a career in law Solicitor apprenticeships are providing an a ff ordable way into the legal profession for hundreds of sixth form school-leavers. T here are an estimated 500,000 people in the legal profession in the UK, working as solicitors, barristers and paralegals. The UK’s legal sector is the largest in Europe and second only to the US, and London is The solicitor degree apprenticeship was launched in 2016, to provide an alternative way for sixth form school-leavers to become fully-qualified solicitors. Until then, the traditional route was based on a law (or non-law) undergraduate degree, one or two years at law school, and then a two-year training contract at a law firm. Eversheds Sutherland is one of more than fifty law firms in the UK that now offer solicitor degree apprenticeships.
home to all of the world’s top forty law firms. Many well-known law firms are partnerships, which means they are owned by their most-senior solicitors, who are known as partners. The partners at five of London’s most prestigious law firms – A&O Shearman, Clifford Chance, Freshfields, Linklaters, and Slaughter and May – typically earn around £1.5 million per year.
“We’re an international ‘full-service’ corporate and commercial law firm, which means we do almost everything apart from criminal and family law,”
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