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Government Legal Service
- Fancy being a civil servant?
The largest employer of Lawyers in the UK
Lawyers in the Government Legal Service (GLS)work in more than thirty different departments ranging from HM Revenue and Customs to the Department for Energy and Climate Change.
This section gives you the latest straight from the horses’ mouth, as it were, to let you know about the GLS. We can start with the basics like what is the GLS? Or you skip onto where the GLS can take in your legal career and how much you will earn!
As well as that we will providing profiles of all the Government Legal Service Departments. Soon we will have a directory of the Government Legal Service Departments so you can browse through over thirty GLS departments.
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What is the GLS?
- Interested in being a government lawyer?
- The Government Legal Service (GLS) is the organisational name for the 2000 barristers, solicitors an...
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What to expect as a GLS trainee
- Working in the GLS can give lots of variety
- Trainees’ experience will vary according to the departmental legal team to which they are allo...
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The GLS compared
- How is it different to your standard training contract or pupillage?
- There are plenty of similarities between a Government Legal Service lawyer and a lawyer who works fo...
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Where will the GLS take me?
- Here, there and everywhere
- In the early days, trainees will work under supervision before managing their own caseload. With a f...
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