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  • Career change – (Scottish) Law – anyone done it?
  • TheFlyingOx
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    I’m currently employed in the oil & gas industry, and in addition to the very many work related reasons for me becoming disheartened, I’m also hating being away from my family more and more each trip. It pays well but that is literally the only plus point for me, and I need to change. On top of that, I’m reading between the lines that the place I’m on has somewhere around 10 years left in it. I’m not keen on having my job come to an end while im in my mid-40s and having nothing to fall back on other than my highly specialised skillset that is almost redundant in non-offshore roles.

    I have a chemistry degree already and studied two years of part time OU Law about 10 years ago, but I was just too poor at the time to keep up the cost of studying. I enjoyed it, and it is something I am still interested in. I’ve been looking around and have seen the RGU distance learning Qualifying Law Degree, which is ideal as it is specifically Scots law; the OU course requires a conversion course. I currently have the time, and crucially the finances, to study and complete this kind of course and it’s now top of the list for my offshore escape plan.

    Anyone made a jump into Law? How did you find it? Would you recommend it? Why not?

    cbike
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    Judging from my little sis it seems like she has never left uni despite graduating years ago.

    Lots of firms consolidating, laying off staff and suffering the same pressures no one buying or building stuff….oil industry getting quiet that type of thing…you still have sales targets.

    curto80
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    What sort of law would you see yourself doing?

    Getting a law degree is obviously important but if you want to be a commercial/business lawyer you need to start thinking now about getting relevant work experience and about routes to getting a training contract.

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    cbike
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    They are short of decent law Secretaries, obviously they don’t pay enough to retain them. Her most recent decent one is off to…become a lawyer.

    ourmaninthenorth
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    No idea about the Scots angle (am English qualified) but the advice I give to everyone considering a career in law is to do something else.

    Too many lawyers fighting for the same work and no longer the well paying profession it was.

    OMITN (ex-lawyer)

    Nipper99
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    Perhaps focus on areas of practice that are applicable in E and W also, I know some Scots qualified lawyers dealing with planning, environmental and construction law who work for a large firm in Bristol.

    loddrik
    Free Member

    Wife works for a law firm. My god it seems like an utterly soul destroying way to earn a living. I guess that’s why they pay quite well.

    epicyclo
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    ourmaninthenorth – Member
    No idea about the Scots angle (am English qualified) but the advice I give to everyone considering a career in law is to do something else…

    My wife (qualified in several jurisdictions) made sure none of our children considered law as a career.

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