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Moving up in the Legal Industry
What can my nextlegal move be?
You’ve got a few years of experience under your belt, you’vebeen there, done that and own the t-shirt to prove it. Now your sights are firmly fixed on which direction your career may take next. But with so many varying roles and anequally diverse choice of paths to follow, which one is right for you? 
The career path taken by solicitors is a relatively straightforward one.Over the last few years you will have worked across a number of different specialisms and now that you are qualified, you get theopportunity to choose which area you would like to specialise in.Sometimes this can be done by staying with your existing employer but may mean moving to another form, depending on your field of choice and size of employer.As you assume more responsibility and start to make your mark youcan eye the prize of becoming a Partner. Or if that’s not an ambitionrecent changes to the profession have seen the introduction of anumber of middle and senior management roles that don’tnecessarily lead to partnership, such as Associate Director or Counsel.If you are a barrister and have successfully landed a job in chambersyou will see that the cases you are dealing with begin to increase inseriousness and complexity. From here career progression can taketwo forms - self-employment or opting to practice at the Employed
 
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Bar and apply for in-house roles within either public or private sector organisations.By pursuing the first option your career success will be largely aresult of how good a reputation you have and the client base youhave managed to build up.Whereas the second option offers more by way of personal security.From here career progression will either follow the managementroute overseeing an entire legal department, for example, or pursuing the ultimate ambition (for many barristers at least) of ‘cutting silk’ as Queen’s Counsel (QC).Legal Executives also have two distinct paths to consider. Some willfollow the legal executive-senior executive-practice manager route.While others use their jobs as a springboard to re-launch their careers as a solicitor – upon obtaining additional professionalqualifications that is.Irrespective of what job you are doing right now you will need tofollow a continual professional development plan and be prepared toburn the candle at both ends to acquire the qualifications needed tohelp steer your career in the direction you want to go.
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