{"id":1574,"date":"2025-07-08T09:18:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T08:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/klsemployability\/?page_id=1574"},"modified":"2025-08-08T14:03:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T13:03:33","slug":"becoming-a-solicitor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/getintolaw\/how-to-2\/becoming-a-solicitor\/","title":{"rendered":"Become a solicitor:-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are two key stages in the process to become a solicitor:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Qualifications:<\/strong>\u00a0 Degree + Solicitors Qualifying Exam<\/li>\n<li><strong>Qualifying Work experience:<\/strong>\u00a0 2 years legal work experience which has been &#8216;signed off&#8217; as meeting the relevant criteria<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s not that easy!\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a very competitive industry and, to give yourself the best chance of success you will also need to have certain skills and qualities;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>be able to write a good application and interview well;<\/li>\n<li>have great knowledge of the world we live in (usually called &#8220;commercial awareness&#8221;);<\/li>\n<li>understand the legal profession.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There is a great amount of information about qualifcation on the following webpages:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutlaw.co.uk\/courses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.allaboutlaw.co.uk\/courses<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawcareers.net\/Courses\/Solicitors-Qualifying-Exam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.lawcareers.net\/Courses\/Solicitors-Qualifying-Exam<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sra.org.uk\/become-solicitor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.sra.org.uk\/become-solicitor\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are two key stages in the process to become a solicitor: Qualifications:\u00a0 Degree + Solicitors Qualifying Exam Qualifying Work experience:\u00a0 2 years legal work &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/getintolaw\/how-to-2\/becoming-a-solicitor\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34794,"featured_media":0,"parent":2657,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/getintolaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/getintolaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/getintolaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/getintolaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/getintolaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1574"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/getintolaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4607,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/getintolaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1574\/revisions\/4607"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/getintolaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/getintolaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}