Becoming a lawyer, please help?

by **stein74** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 3:53 pm

I want to be a personal injury lawyer when I'm older, I'm 14 now and in year 10 and I don't know what grades you need or what A levels and stuff like that you need to go to law school. right now for my GCSE's this year I've got a B in science, a B+ in english and a D in maths, yes I know my maths is pretty bad but the highest mark in maths is the C in my school for it. These are not my propper GCSEs though because I will do them next year, the ones this year just gives you an idia about them and an idea about the grade you will get, So what grades do I need? I'm also staying in 6th form so would that be a good idea or not? and afterwards I want to go to university to try and become a lawyear and work about it so where do I actually need to go and what grades do i need? also how much do they earn a year?

by **caelin** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 4:07 pm

The ambulance chases are companies who employ vastly unpaid and under-skilled layers to work for them.
If you wish to make money at law become come a criminal lawyer instead.
But with you very limited qualifications you could not become a lawyer's clark let alone a lawyer.
You will need to also learn latin!

by **larenzo** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 4:10 pm

You don't sound a very academic type (although a lot can change over the next few years) and at the moment there is fierce competition to get into good law faculties at university, following which you would have to do professional exams and fight your way into a training contract (solicitor) or pupillage (barrister). You (or your parents) would have to fund all this and at the end of it all you would not initially earn very much while being saddled with debt. Let me suggest a gentler way to you which might offer the kind of career you have in mind with the additional advantage of enabling you to earn money as you trained.m http://www.ilex.org.uk/

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