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Training to be a solicitor. What's the procedure?

  • 01-04-2008 10:36am
    #1
    Jigsaw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,509 ✭✭✭


    Folks,

    I was hoping someone could give be a bit of advice or at least point me in the right direction. I have done a law degree at University of Ulster which I completed in 2002. Following five years of various unsuccessful ventures I have recently been considering training to be a solicitor. I know what the procedure is in Northern Ireland and England but I was not sure about the process in Republic of Ireland. As far as I know, it is possible to do the academic side of things in either Galway or Dublin.

    If anyone can give me a few pointers or have any first hand experience I'd be very grateful to hear from you.

    Cheers.


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  • #2
    leeroybrown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,563 ✭✭✭leeroybrown


    Have a look over in the Legal Discussion forum. There should be plenty of discussion of the best ways to do it there.


  • #3
    Pythia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,469 ✭✭✭Pythia


    Jigsaw wrote: »
    Folks,

    I was hoping someone could give be a bit of advice or at least point me in the right direction. I have done a law degree at University of Ulster which I completed in 2002. Following five years of various unsuccessful ventures I have recently been considering training to be a solicitor. I know what the procedure is in Northern Ireland and England but I was not sure about the process in Republic of Ireland. As far as I know, it is possible to do the academic side of things in either Galway or Dublin.

    If anyone can give me a few pointers or have any first hand experience I'd be very grateful to hear from you.

    Cheers.


    You need to pass 8 FE1 exams. You then secure a training contract with a firm and go to Blackhall Place to become a solicitor as far as I know.

    You can do prep courses to pass the FE1s. It's pretty hard to get them all in one go, especially if you haven't looked at Law for 5 years.

    Google is your friend here. Google 'Blackhall Place' and 'FE1'.


  • #4
    bills
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 952 ✭✭✭bills


    Yea fe-1 s are pretty tough & even if you do get them, there are hardly any jobs available so i would really think twice about it, especially at the moment with the downturn in conveyancing!!


  • #5
    Electric
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 541 ✭✭✭Electric


    Personally I don't know if I would go down the Blackhall/King's Inns route. There is an oversupply of solicitors at the moment and Blackhall seems to be churning out more. You will probably find that it is difficult to get a placement to complete your apprenticeship.

    A friend of mine had an interview for MOPS last September and they told her that they had over 1500 applications for 25 places. She had a Masters and passed her FE1's with flying colours and didn't even get close to being considered.

    Would you consider specialising in another area? For example anti money laundering and data protection are seeing huge growth lately specialising in these areas might be more beneficial


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