Next steps for changing your career
Find out more about changing to a career in law by coming to one of our open days which are held throughout the year and can be booked online.
Join the Future Lawyers Network
Open to anyone interested in law and free to join, the College’s Future Lawyers Network makes the world of law more accessible to you. Offering careers advice, opportunities to network online and access to up-to-date information, to get your legal career off to the best possible start - join the Future Lawyers Network.
Both members of our Future Lawyers Network and College of Law students can access the College’s Student Employability Programme (StEP). Structured as a series of self-contained steps this is the best possible foundation for building the skills and knowledge you need at the start of your legal career.
Here is some useful information about what you can be doing now to help you succeed in your career in law.
Stephen Liddle, current BPTC student and career changer
'Following a rewarding 18 year career in the Royal Marines, I decided to look for a second career that offered me the independence and responsibility I had enjoyed in the military, coupled with a fresh intellectual challenge. I therefore decided to pursue a career in law.
I chose to study my GDL (part-time) at The College of Law for its course structure. Upon successfully completion of my GDL I stayed with the College to study the BPTC on a full-time basis because of the tutor group based approach to learning and the supportive attitude the college adopts towards students.
Upon completion of my BPTC my ambitions are to obtain a pupillage and ultimately tenancy.'