Beginning to consider your future career as a lawyer? There are a few things you should be doing [even before you begin university]. Here\u2019s our checklist to help you get started:<\/p>\n
✔ Talk to your careers adviser at school to go through your options.<\/p>\n
✔ Research the different paths into law \u2013 university, chartered legal executive, paralegal, apprenticeship (read The Law Apprenticeships Guide 2022<\/em><\/a>) \u2013 and decide which is right.<\/p>\n ✔ Get some practical work experience at a law firm, barristers\u2019 chambers or legal advice centre; it will help you to decide what suits you best and will also improve any applications you make later.<\/p>\n ✔ Work hard at your academic studies. Good grades are important.<\/p>\n ✔ Think about the kinds of extracurricular activities you can do, or have done, to make yourself into a well-rounded candidate. Think sport, volunteering, drama, music\u2026<\/p>\n ✔ Sign up to LCN Weekly on LawCareers.Net<\/a>. Our free weekly email newsletter delivers news and information about the profession, plus advice and calendar reminders, straight to your inbox.<\/p>\n ✔ Read newspapers\u2019 online business sections to improve your commercial awareness and get you starting to \u2018think business\u2019.<\/p>\n For more essential information about starting your career in law, the latest edition of The Beginner\u2019s Guide to a Career in Law<\/em><\/a> will be out soon \u2013 you can\u00a0read it online for free<\/a>.<\/p>\n ___________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n Big thanks to the LawCareers.Net team\u00a0for writing this blog! We hope you find it useful and it inspires you to start building your career in law.<\/strong><\/p>\n Please be reminded that if you need careers support, your Careers Team is only an email \/ a message away!<\/p>\n E:<\/strong>\u00a0careers@westminster.ac.uk<\/a>|\u00a0Website<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Instagram<\/a>\u00a0|Careers Blog<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Beginning to consider your future career as a lawyer? There are a few things you should be doing [even before you begin university]. Here\u2019s our checklist to help you get started: ✔ Talk to your careers adviser at school to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":287,"featured_media":11134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,12,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-employability","category-employer-guest-blogs","category-general","category-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}