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There are many ways in the legal profession that does not cost £ 50 000, but may be neglected when applying for graduate work

from next year that will cost more than £ 50,000 to become a lawyer. Unless, of course, students choose one of a growing number of budget options for legal education. But taking these titles of the law will lead to a job?

The degree of negotiation

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BPP Law School, announced that, from 2012, is charged only £ 5,000 a year for his LLB Law undergraduate degree - or £ 6,000 per year if the course is under tablet within two years. That law degree from 12,000 pounds, shave a cool £ 15 000 of the soon-to-be the standard cost of £ 27,000 Russell LLB Group. (In addition, counsel for the plaintiffs in all the institutions must also complete an annual training course, which costs up to 16,000 lbs.)

However, employers of graduates of law "traditionally prefer the more established universities, students who choose BPP course run the risk of being overlooked for learning.

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lawyer Adam Kramer says his firm, the entrepreneur set up three Verulam Buildings, "a line to exclude blacks from certain universities," assesses students may find it easier to demonstrate their intellectual ability and analytical - the key factors in the bar -. through a traditional three-year course in a traditional institution

However, counsel for the branch of the profession, where business acumen and ease with people is often more important than the legal capacity, the extent of the law is seen as the FFA more favorable. "Every time our students meet at least three persons as consider any degree of road," said Lawson Caisley, hiring partner at Lovells Top City firm Hogan graduated.

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Northumbria University has recently launched a law degree LLB in treaty practice launched a training program for legal practice course (LPC) and a training contract (usually offered as part of the first step in working with a law firm) in a single five-year program.

The big advantage with a double degree is that students do not have to go through the difficult process of finding a training contract - an obstacle that many graduate degrees in law treaty does not occur, they low-wage work of paralegals even unpaid.

The course is also a pretty good value: £ 8.500 a year for four years (which is cheaper than the combined cost of a degree in law and in most institutions LPC) in Last year, spent a lot of investment in a law firm, at a cost of £ 4250. "Participants receive student loans right at all, and has a good chance to be taken full-time in companies where internships are," said Kevin Kerrigan, as Dean of the Faculty of Law at Northumbria.

However, a contract of training sponsored by a law firm - which generally covers the cost of LPC hires and pays an annual £ 35 000 while training - is a much better deal. Of course, only a relatively small proportion of law students to ensure this type of cushty agreement.

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Not that there's nothing new to get a law degree through ILEX, a path with the law dating back to Victorian times. Indeed, while companies with students who complete their ILEX plans to remain in the minority, there ILEX qualified lawyers (many of them are former clerks) in most large law firms, including Chance Magic Circle quartet Clifford, Linklaters, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Slaughter and May.