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Help on options in year 9 to be a lawyer..?

i want to be a solicitor when i am older but dont know what i have to take, well can someone tell me what options i should study in 9 10 and 11 years. thanks

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• Hi,
  
  We are frequently asked which subjects should be taken at GCSE or A-Level and having consulted many legal employers the answer is: it doesn't really matter. But you have to do well, really well. So take the subjects you enjoy as often people perform better in those. Clearly, you will need good English skills.
  
  You might also like to know that there are three types of lawyer:
  
  1. Solicitor
  2. Barrister
  3. Legal Executive
  
  But you have time to understand the differences and work towards them. Also, bare in mind that you do not need to go to university to become a lawyer, if you don't want to, (although we would recommend you do - it seriously is the best three years of your lfie!) and that around 50% of the lawyers employed by the best firms are non-law graduates. You do not need to study law a university to become a lawyer, instead you can do something else and then take a one year conversion course - definately, worth considering.
  
  I hope that helps and if you have any more questions please just get in touch.
  
  Jack

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• Do what you feel you are confident in and like as at the end of the day you have to do them for three year, and you are only young and may change your mind...i dont think it really matters what you take as long as you get the results you need from your GCSE's to get onto your appropriate course in college or uni...good luck
• Choosing a career is one of life's most important decisions.
  
  Be aware of what you are proposing on getting yourself into. Please do more research first. Reminder: We are in a World-wide Recession. Consider career paths that have available JOBS.<<<<<
  
  Warning> Jobs in the field of Law are drying up fast!! This is just not a good field to invest time and/or money into. This is a SHRINKING, crumbling, and dying vocational field. Many reasons. We now have computers. So, many people today (mistakenly) think they can do their own legal work, thanks to the Internet. Also, there are a lot of companies out there making very efficient legal software for the field of Law. Today's graduating lawyers tend to be very computer savvy, so they just do the work themselves to save themselves the cost of overhead. Also, the "Public" buys this legal software in order to get legal work done without the cost of an Attorney. Also, we simply already have way too many Legal Professionals - we have an absolute glut!! ("Legal Professionals" includes, but is not limited to: Attorneys/Lawyers, Paralegals, Legal Assistants, Legal Secretaries, Bailiffs, Court Reporters, etc, etc)
  
  The field of Law has a mystique that actually exceeds reality. The field of Law is an overrated career - mostly by television. There are many myths regarding the field of Law: working as a Lawyer is mentally challenging (Actually, most work as an attorney involves routine paperwork: research, cite checking, drafting documents, and document review. Attorneys need to write down and track every activity they do, all day long [in 6 to 15 minutes increments, depending on the billing system] - a painstaking but necessary task), being an attorney is thrilling, high-powered, and glamorous (remember: television is fiction - the fictional lawyers on TV are ACTORS - the majority of work that an attorney does, does not happen in a courtroom), law students think that because they are good at arguing they will become great attorneys (actually being a great attorney is more in one's ability to mediate between differing sides and bringing them to agreement), as a lawyer I can correct injustices (actually legal decisions are more about reaching compromises than about right vs. wrong), guaranteed financial success (actually when salaries are compared, you also need to account for cost-of living expenses [most large law firms are in large cities - the bigger the city, the more cost-of-living expenses will be], payment of debts accrued while attending law school, and time needed to build a client base. Many large law firms require lawyers to work 60-80 hours per week.).
  
  Cost of law school to be lawyer, approx $150,000+.
  Be prepared to take on a LOT of debt.<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
  
  There are no jobs in this vocational field. My family, coworkers, friends, acqaintances, etc. have been laid off left and right in this vocational field.
  
  Employers (usually law firms) in the field of Law today want employees with degrees from traditional colleges/universities. Those "certificates" you see advertised aren't worth the paper they are printed on - they are generally scams. (I found this out the hard way.) Also, the law school's program needs to be accredited by the American Bar Association - if it isn't, you are just wasting your time/money.
  
  Even if you finish law school, you won't be able to find a job when you are done. Since this vocational field is shrinking, many new attorneys/lawyers are, themselves, having to work "down" as Paralegals, Legal Assistants, Legal Secretaries, Bailiffs, Court Reporters, etc, etc, to simply try to keep some of their bills paid <<this would be your competition. And the competition is fierce!!
  
  Now... the law schools know this, but they won't tell you the truth >that the job market/economy is just SATURATED with way too many Legal Professionals. Instead the schools will feed you a fairytale and will LIE to you. The root of the problem is we have too many law schools. We are in a recession, and the schools are fighting for their own survival - they will tell students anything to get to the students' money. (Which is why they won't tell you the truth about the job market for the field of Law.) And these schools continue to recruit and churn out even more graduates.............Remember: law schools are BUSINESSES - their top concern is making money for themselves.
  
  If you don't believe me, then just do a SEARCH here on Yahoo Answers to see what other posters are saying about the current status of the field of Law. Call some local law firms - ask to speak to the Manager of Human Resources - ask them if they are hiring; ask them what they think about job availability in the field of Law..................
  
  In the book "So You Want to be a Lawyer?" by Marianne Calabrese and Susanne Calabrese (ISBN 0-88391-136-1): "The United States has more lawyers than any other country in the world. About 38,000 students

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• Whatever interest you my son has just got a law degree for gcse he did the usual maths english and double science it d&t mechanical history welsh cant remember the rest sorry
  
  AS level law history english goverment and politics
  
  A level law history english
  
  Hope this helps and good luck
• History and maybe Latin if your school does it.