Not All Lawyers Have Law Degrees
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Not All Lawyers Have Law Degrees
The BBC Legal team takes a fresh look at the legal profession and how you can become a lawyer. We meet some amazing people who we think will inspire you whether you’re considering a career in law, taking the first steps or working your way up and looking for guidance about what to do next. This is N...
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Bonus episode: Diversity is a way of thinking!
In this season 3 bonus, we re-release a popular episode from series 1: our check in with Vaibhav Adlakha - solicitor and diversity & inclusion trailbl...
The SQE Explained
Not All Lawyers Have Law Degrees series 3 episode 4 is a re-release of our discussion with Dr Victoria Roper, Associate Professor at Northumbria Unive...
Top tips for CVs, applications & interviews – with Rianna Powponne
The third instalment in our legal apprenticeships series re-visits the previous chat with Rianna Powponne of Rare Recruitment. Rianna shares essential...
Legal apprenticeships: all you need to know – with Ceri Evans
In this re-released episode, Georgie and Ella discuss legal apprenticeships with Ceri Evans, National Programme Director for Apprenticeships at the Un...
Personal experience of legal apprenticeship – with Maia Crockford and Teagan Williams
The legal-apprenticeship-themed third series of Not All Lawyers Have Law Degrees begins with BBC’s very own legal apprentice Georgie Yates and former...
Pauline Campbell: Be strong in your resolve
Pauline Campbell is our final career changer in our mini series – she qualified as a lawyer at the age of 41 after a successful career as a housing be...
Suzanne Hutton: Showcase your skills
Suzanne Hutton offers practical advice to students on a daily basis in her role as careers manager for online students at The University of Law. Suzan...
Victoria Roper: The SQE explained (Re-release)
We’re re-releasing this episode from series 1 to bump it up for all you career changers out there – here’s a really clear explanation of the SQE and h...
Rachael Bell: Harnessing experience
Rachael Bell worked as a company director in the construction industry. Now she’s a paralegal, qualifying as a solicitor and supporting other career-c...
Mukhtiar Singh: Taking a risk with someone who’s different
In the first of our mini-series on career changers we hear from former police detective Mukhtiar Singh, an employment and commercial barrister and soc...
Isaac Eloi: People need help and support
Isaac Eloi is starting out as a lawyer at ICE, a digital music licensing hub. He tells us how joining a specialist lawyer network helped him get this...
Rianna Powponne: Law firms do want to recruit normal people
Rianna Powponne of Rare Recruitment shares essential advice about CVs, applications and interviews - including what to put on your CV and what to leav...
Sonia Janday: Working with and for the business
Sonia Janday, Senior Legal Counsel at Aviva Investors, discusses the appeal of an in-house, city centre legal job – including the parking space and un...
Ahmed Aydeed: The most important thing is listening
Multi award winning Ahmed Aydeed, Public Law Director at Duncan Lewis solicitors, talks passionately about the “huge rewards” of working on cases whic...
Siobhan Taylor-Ward: How life-changing is that?
Siobhan Taylor-Ward, a solicitor at the Vauxhall Law Centre in Liverpool, talks about the challenges and rewards of working in a law centre embedded i...
Ceri Evans: All about legal apprenticeships
In our second episode about apprenticeships, we speak to Ceri Evans, National Programme Director for Apprenticeships at the University of Law and get...
Maia Crockford and Teagan Williams: Apprentices earning while they learn
In the first of two invaluable episodes about apprenticeships, our very own legal apprentice and former apprentice, Georgie and Ella, speak to law fir...
Karlia Lykourgou: Why not you?
Karlia Lykourgou, of Doughty Street Chambers and founder of legal outfitter Ivy & Normanton, gives a fantastic insight into what life is like as a sel...
Carley Green: Sometimes I have to pinch myself!
Criminal barrister Carley Green works at the Crown Prosecution Service and she’s just 24 years old! While studying she had to work a few part time job...
Victoria Roper: The SQE explained
Dr Victoria Roper, Associate Professor at Northumbria University and Chair of the National Education and Training Committee of the Law Society, explai...
Scott Halliday: Owning it!
The phenomenal Scott Halliday, family lawyer at Irwin Mitchell, talks about enjoying - and owning - the process of becoming a lawyer, why family law i...
Demi Rixon: I’m not inspiring, I’m just making a sandwich
Aspiring solicitor Demi Rixon talks about her journey into the legal profession as a paralegal and how she is creating a disability disclosure strateg...
Vaibhav Adlakha: Diversity is a way of thinking
Solicitor, and diversity & inclusion trailblazer, Vaibhav Adlakha tells us what he thinks makes a law firm inclusive, why mental adjustments can be mo...
Hashi Mohamed: Being your own boss
A straight-talking interview with planning barrister and author, Hashi Mohamed, about why he chose the Bar, the challenges of building a practice when...
Daisy Mortimer: The facts about becoming a barrister
In this practical interview, Daisy Mortimer, Interim Outreach Manager at the Inner Temple, explains all about becoming a barrister, funding, pupillage...
Leila Lesan: Becoming a solicitor and covering the cost
Leila Lesan, Policy Advisor for Social Mobility at The Law Society, explains the practicalities of becoming a solicitor, how to access funding and why...
Yagmur Ekici: It’s not rocket science!
Yagmur Ekici tells us why she loves her work as a clinical negligence and personal injury solicitor at Bindmans, how she ‘fell into’ a legal career an...
Mohsin Zaidi: Let’s be honest about lawyers
Barrister and author of A Dutiful Boy, Mohsin Zaidi talks frankly about becoming a lawyer, the crucial advice he received along the way and what happe...
Welcome to… Not All Lawyers Have Law Degrees
Are you thinking about becoming a lawyer? Maybe you’ve just graduated or you’re in a job and want inspiration on what to do next?
This is Not Al...