Key legal skills need to be a lawyer

If you want to be a lawyer obviously you are going to need to build up a skills set specific to law. This video, from those in the know, details all the key skills you will need to possess in order to start your law career.

Clearly, different types of lawyer require different skills many of which will be extensions of your personality. However, there are a set of core skills you will need no matter which area of law you are interested in, and no matter which type of lawyer you become.

Most of the skills you need for law you can learn through work experience, like vacation schemes or mini-pupillages the rest you will have wait until you are thrown in at the deep end! This should give a better idea of which you can start to build up yourself.

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