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Conveyancing solicitors facilitate a wide range of property transactions acting either for the buyer or seller. These include sales, purchases, leases, transfer and disputes relating to residential property, shops, offices, land, farms etc. Most activities follow a clearly laid out process which has to be adhered to.
The Good
You use your expertise to the benefit of others
Parts of the role can be intellectually challenging
You get to meet a borad variety of people
The Bad
When handling disputes, clients will never be totally satisfied as they are very likely to have had to compromise
It can be stressful, to make money you need to take on work in bulk
In a recession, work dries up
Aspects of the role can be boring
Start Salary
£ 16 -18 K
Skill Requirements:
You will need to be a systematic person with very good time management skills in order to get the efficiencies needed to make money and keep clients happy.
Typical Career Path:
Once accepted as a solicitor, if you are going to be a conveyancing solicitor, most people tend to enter this specialisation immediately. If you are employed in a high street practice, the pinnacle is a partnership within the firm. Alternatively, if you have the business ability and courage, you can open your own practice once you have some experience.
How to get into this career ?
To enter the profession, you will need to follow the conventional law route including all the law and solicitor's qualification LPV). This is 1 year full time and cost £10K. Then you need to find a firm willing to offer you a training contract for 2 years. Right now, these are extremely difificult to find, but by the time you've graduated, things will have changed! Most conveyacers will work in relatively small local or high street practices.
School Subject Requirements
3 A's in your A levels to get into the better degrees.
Uni/College Requirements
Either: An initial 3 year degree plus 1 year at law school OR any first degree followed by 2 years at law school. Law schools will be looking for you to have achieved a 1st or upper second class in your initial law degree
Alternative routes
None
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