The high salaries and big time careers of law attract many applicants. The process to become a solicitor or barrister is rather complicated and extremely competitive. You first need to get good enough grades at school to study a Law degree, a four year course, then a further year in a Legal Practice Course (LPC) before finally obtaining and undertaking two years in a ‘training contract’ at a legal organisation which is no guarantee. The nature of legal education and recruitment is elitist and before you waste any time you should consider if you are definitely good enough.

Any hiring process should be sure to include an employee background check. That’s because these checks offer employers the perfect method for finding out about who their applicants are and what they’ve done in the past. This can be extremely important if you want to find out whether someone’s a good candidate for a job.

Law offers a variety of successful careers which are attractive to many, not all the lawyers in the UK have a degree in Law with 18.5% of a 7,000 strong poll admitting they had a degree in another area and 23% transferring from other careers. The industry is growing rapidly and continuing to look for skills offered from a range of backgrounds and different countries.