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Law degree career options

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  • 08-05-2017 11:12pm
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    TwentyThree
    Registered Users Posts: 6 ✭


    Hi, I'm graduating with a law degree next year, but I feel like I don't want to be a solicitor anymore.

    My question is what alternative careers are available with a law degree (without doing FE1s)? Would I be able to land a job in HR management or banking, or even journalism? I've completed an internship at a commercial law firm in Dublin, but the thought of working as a trainee solicitor for 2 years without actually having much interest in the career puts me off sitting the FE1s altogether.

    Any careers open to me other than solicitor/barrister/lecturer without having to do a degree in a different area? Cheers!
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    Yoop_
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    There are lots of options available with a law degree. The skills you will have developed are transferrable to numerous other areas. Pick a masters or some other postgrad course in something that interests you.

    Also, just to note: the vast majority of people in my graduating year didn't become solicitors and didn't intend to do so.


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    TwentyThree
    Registered Users Posts: 6 ✭TwentyThree


    Thanks for replying Yoop_, that's reassuring at least, cheers for the advice!


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