What options are there for law grads other than pursing a career as a solicitor? I’ve always excelled at humanities/english rather than numbers although I’m currently working in tax which I’m not enjoying. I’m pretty extroverted and enjoy working with others.

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  1. My friend with a law degree does HR and earns a lot doing it. They did a lot of employment law on their degree so I guess that helped.

  2. Financial Crime/Compliance for a Bank or Investment Firm. Can get to £100k+ at VP/Director level and its pretty chill relative to other roles in a bank (you dont have to work ridiculous hours).

  3. A friend of mine has had a variety if jobs – she did an administrative job and moved into covering data protection, then became a data protection officer for her local fire service, and then moved to a similar role in higher education.

    Do you not want to become a solicitor or have you just struggled to find a training contract? Or did you not enjoy the degree work? I ask because studying law and practicing law are very different things, and so if you are still interested but didn’t enjoy the degree you could look at legal roles and perhaps going down the paralegal / Filex/qualification route.

    Any kind of HR or Business admin roles might suit you – legal training tends to involve being good at understanding and processing large volumes of information and being able to understand and apply it, so anything that needs those skills.

    Tax is very niche so I wouldn’t assume that if you don’t enjoy a tax/legal role you wouldn’t like any other field. Private client work (wills/probate etc) involves personal interaction with clients but also being able to understand tax and might be something to look at

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