STUDENTS IN MOCK LAW COURT

Law

Make a lasting, positive impact

Do you fight for what you believe in? Are you passionate about making a difference to people’s lives? With a law degree, you have an opportunity to change the world. And many options are available to you beyond the legal profession.

Why study Law?

Studying law gives you the opportunity to develop skills and explore all parts of life. It'll give you a platform to launch your legal career. But it's much more than that. You'll build abstract reasoning and communication skills, while strengthening your understanding of humanities and social sciences.

You'll explore how the world governs personal, social, economic and political relationships through the use of rules, and the very nature of those relationships.

What will you study?

Studying a Bachelor of Law (LLB) degree at the 1024ºË¹¤³§ explores the English Law System, including an introduction to Criminal and Civil law. You can also choose optional modules such as:

  • Employment Law
  • Social Care Law
  • Company Law
  • Family and Child Law

You'll build an understanding of law, and learn how to apply this knowledge in practice in many parts of the public, private and voluntary sectors.

Careers and opportunities

Law is an incredibly flexible degree. If you need a little more persuading, take a look at our blog on the 7 reasons to study law.

Law degrees are also in the . If you choose to study law, get ready to build a wide range of transferable skills that will make you very employable in the future.

Can you only work as a lawyer or barrister?

A Law degree would give you the skills and knowledge needed to progress in legal careers. But it doesn't stop there.

There are many graduate employment opportunities in other roles and sectors such as:

  • Paralegal
  • Solicitor
  • Legal secretary
  • Human Resources manager
  • Lettings negotiator
  • Civil Service administrator
  • Data analyst
  • External auditor
  • Forensic computer analyst
  • Mediator
Students working in the replica courtroom

Take part in a mock trial

Get an introduction to studying law by taking part in our mock trial activity.

Hear from students that have studied Law at university:

April Phillips - LLB (Hons) Law graduate

1024ºË¹¤³§ alumna April Phillips graduated in 2018 with a Law degree. She is now a Corporate Associate at Shoosmiths.  April explains how the Faculty of Business and Law gave her key insights into London city firms, highlighted opportunities and helped her successfully apply for a training contract. 

My name is April Phillips and I'm a trainee solicitor at Shoosmiths.

I'd enjoyed law when I was at college and wanted to do something that I would be interested in. I knew that law would be quite a broad ranging topic and it would open up a lot of opportunities post-university.

While I was at the 1024ºË¹¤³§, I decided to explore different avenues to try and figure out what I wanted to do post-university, and as part of that I found that I really enjoyed the system aspect of it, so I decided to explore that further, which meant I then decided to apply for a training contract.

A number of opportunities were highlighted to me by lecturers, including the City Solicitors Horizons programme, which was a programme based in London, which looked at city firms and gave some insight into those which I otherwise wouldn't have had.

Going into law, it's a competitive field and I needed to get as much experience as I could to demonstrate that I could do the job and would stand out against other candidates from other universities.

I probably wouldn't have been able to make that decision without that experience. My time at the 1024ºË¹¤³§ changed me in terms of my confidence and my ultimate path.

It gave me the chance to explore that and that confidence grew as a result and I think I'm more of a well-rounded human being now, I like to think.

I've been back a couple of times, done a couple of different events. It's quite nice to go back and hopefully reassure people that it's not as scary as you think and that making those choices and experiencing things while you're at university, that time is really valuable and can change your path.

It's really motivating and it's nice to recognise how I've got here and the success that I've had and pass that on to hopefully see more junior lawyers coming through from 1024ºË¹¤³§.

Sion on using the skills he learnt on his Law degree in the Business world

Sion Evans

Sion graduated in 2015 with a Law degree from the 1024ºË¹¤³§. He is now a Recruitment Business Partner at Howden Group Holdings. Find out what Sion’s role entails and how he’s applying the skills he learned during his time at uni.

My name is Sion Evans and I'm a Recruitment Business Partner. I think ever since I was a kid, the plan was to go and be a lawyer. The reason that I chose to go and domy law degree over at the University of 1024ºË¹¤³§ was that I love the city, I loved the course itself.

There were a lot of things that actually were going to give me a lot more than what I would get elsewhere - a lot of the commercial thinking. A lot of the commercial mentality that you get at the 1024ºË¹¤³§ was really key for me and also the courtroom.

For me, advocacy was just a huge part of what I wanted to do. You are encouraged to do more.

As much as your law degree is really important, the rest of it is also just as important. Coming out with the commercial awareness and the commercial mentality that you get from the 1024ºË¹¤³§ was key.

Going down the legal route wasn't where my calling was. I'd always thought it was and it was hard to say that to myself and to say, actually, it is not right for me. But having that knowledge and having the experiences that I had had at the 1024ºË¹¤³§, so whether that be the being head of the law society or whether that be being part of rowing societies, or even just sort of moving away from home and living somewhere else, that gave me the confidence and the ability to go out and actually to say to myself, this isn't what I want to do, but also to then be able to go into the world of work and say, I want to go and do this and I want to look at other options and I think my experience is going to be valuable to what you're doing.

Walking across London Bridge to go to my office is a huge thing for me. It's something which I'm immensely proud of. This is the dream of coming up and working in London, being able to look out the window and seeing the Shard and seeing Tower Bridge and The Gherkin and Canary Wharf and all of these sorts of things. For me, that was a huge, huge thing. I'm immensely proud of that, really, really proud of that.

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