Jobs in Law

MrAweesome

I'm thinking about studying Civil Law in NUIG. I always hear that law is a saturated market and that their are no jobs in it other than the typical Solicitor or Barrister. Do yous see the job market in law improving?
I am aware you have to sit for extra exams to become a Solicitor or Barrister in Kings Inns etc... Don't get me wrong, I'd love to a Barrister or Solicitor but it seems once you qualify with a law degree you aren't qualified as a Barrister or Solicitor.

Any insight would be great, thanks.

hfallada

OP you are better off going for law with something eg Law with French or Law and German. Thousands do law every year, so you are better off having an edge on the competition. A law degree is just a degree, but it you need it for the bar, but you dont need it to be a solicitor. Meaning a lot of solicitors did something totally different in college to law but trained to be a solicitor anyway.


There is so jobs in it. But most firms only hire from UCD, TCD and UCC, but particularly TCD. Most Barrister never survive the first few years. Its hard to get business and connections for business.

Law is something you have to be certain you really want to do and its what you want to do. There is a large drop out in law compared to most courses

freeze4real

MrAweesome wrote: »

I always hear that law is a saturated market and that their are no jobs in it other than the typical Solicitor or Barrister.

This is utter nonsense. This is one of many reasons why Irish students are employed. When it comes to employment they're narrow minded.

Is it written somewhere that if you studied law the only job you can get is the typical solictior/barrister jobs ? There's something wrong with the reasoning of Irish graduates.

Its not only law. My college mates who studied accounting infact about 60% of those studying accounting while at UNI had the notion that to be an accountant its through the big 4 and other small firms and that was it no other avenues.

Even engineers often come on boards and say the same there's no job in my field because of that I can't get a job.

Its nonsense. There are other areas you can get a job even though its not in your field.

if you studied law you can get a job with on the big financial instituions like BY Mellon State street Citco etc. There's huge amount of money in Funds Lawyers. What else can those with law degree do ?

Compliance/ethics/regulations is also another sector what looking. The firm I work for pay compliance staff good money. Infact compliance staff accounts for 10% of their global staff which is little and the demand from them is very high.

Law degree - Central bank, Bank of ireland. policy research, Market monitoring.

Engineers civil, strctural etc are known to posses quantitative mindset. Financial companies like davy's employ engineers. Trading companies like susquehanna, geneva trading, positive equity and virtu also employ engineers. There are also asset management companies like TMF, Blue ray asset management, gugunheim, etc

They also recruit them as majority of them have the technical capabilities that most business/finance students wont have. Thus can be said of those who did physics or biology etc. But you might have to do a masters in finance. Not all do but some do.

Apologies for the rant/typing errors. When I see a thread like this I get pissed. I'm from a finance background and was unemployed for a while. I didn't stick to finance forms only I looked at marketing firms It firms etc.

At the end of the day nobody will serve a job for you on a plate. You'll have to d your research