In full time employment and would like to study Law.

Re: Law Study

If what you want is to study law you can do degrees or diplomas part time, try the websites for all the colleges and universities, depending on where you are. Qualifying as a solicitor or barrister is complicated, look at www.lawsociety.ie for solicitors and www.kingsinns.ie for barristers. It's impossible to say which is easier, neither is easy! Establishing yourself as a barrister is harder. You would need to give more info to get more advice.

edit; i found a post regarding my question. sorry

jmgero said:

I require information and guidance please. I am thinking about studying law. As I am in full-time employment I would preferably do this part-time. Is it easier to study and become a barrister or solicitor? I have no experience on these matter nor have I spoke to any people in the legal profession so any suggestions welcomed.

Click to expand...

It seems you are in the same position as i found myself.I am too an Chartered Engineer.......However, Barristers study in the Kings Inn.Starting at a Kings Inn [FONT=Arial, Helvetica]www.kingsinns.ie[/FONT] Legal Studies Diploma, takes 5 evening nights a week for a college term. Its costs 4,7K each year. Then after the 2 years, you take an entrance exam, pass it then you enter the full time vocational Barrister at Law degree [FONT=Arial, Helvetica]www.kingsinns.ie[/FONT] for 1 full year full time, it costs 12k.I have got accepted for a place this year starting in Oct.OI found this route to be much better, otherwise you will enter into Uni as a mature student.You can have a job but it will be limited work to keep up with the Mortgage.I sold my car imported a Jap import, get a moratorium on your mortgage for 3 months then you only have to work the other 3 months of the 6 months been in college.It is a good option.If you don't like public speaking, confrontational arguments, discussions, don't be Barrister, be solicitor, although the solicitor prepares the brief, the Barrister structures the delivery and forms the legal opinions based on the evidence.....Good luck..I am too getting married at the end of this Month, so its all change.

pddc07 said:

If you don't like public speaking, confrontational arguments, discussions, don't be Barrister, be solicitor, although the solicitor prepares the brief, the Barrister structures the delivery and forms the legal opinions based on the evidence.....Good luck..I am too getting married at the end of this Month, so its all change.

Click to expand...

Inaccurate to say the least. As suggested by another poster I would advise the OP to check the Kings Inns and Law Society websites to correctly inform him/her self of practice and procedure of both professions and more importantly to speak to established solicitors and barristers who will give an insight into the type of work they do.

If you are considering the King Inns course part time, I would strongly urge you to speak with someone who has completed it. Perhaps Kings Inn may be able to out you in contact with someone , if you dont know anyone yourself.

My understanding is that it is a huge time commitment and quite intensive, so full time work may not be an option while attending lectures.

Likewise, if you are considering the route of becoming a solicitor there are plenty of useful threads here about completing the entrance exams and finding an apprenticeship.

Neither are easy to complete and require lots of hard work and dedication. For both roles you will require abilities in presentation, argument and persuasion.

Do you have a degree? If you have a degree then you can just sit the FE1 exams (to become a solicitor) and you don't need to have a law degree to sit these exams and you don't necessarily need to go to college but you would probably need to do a griffith preparation course for the FE1 exams. If you don't have a degree (in any dicipline) then there are plenty you could do by night in griffith or many other colleges again the degree doesn't have to be in law it could be an Arts degree and then do FE1 exams. I am not too sure about how to qualify as a barrister at night.

And (not sure about barristers but for solicitors) don't forget you have to do a 2 year low paid full time apprenticeship as well - and these can be hard to find.

You wont be able to do the two year apprenticehsip part time either so you will have to give up your current job completely once you are at the stage where you start your apprenticeship. They are very difficult to find aswell if you look at other posts here you will see that people are finding it hard to secure an apprenticeship but not impossible!