Career options for law graduates

A law degree from Birmingham City University will equip you with a wide range of transferable skills that will not only allow you entry into graduate jobs in the legal profession, but also make you highly employable for non-legal career opportunities too.

Graduate jobs in the legal profession

Most of our law degrees are accredited by key academic bodies and recognised by a number of international professional bodies.

Our LLB is a Qualifying Law Degree, satisfying the academic stage of training if you are seeking to qualify as a solicitor or barrister of England and Wales.

Law degree-related jobs

Barrister
Barrister's clerk
Chartered legal exec (England and Wales)
Licensed conveyancer
Solicitor

Transferable skills

See how having a law degree has helped our graduates succeed in excellent careers outside the legal profession.

Non-legal career options

Some of our most successful law graduates with careers in the legal profession

Jimmy Ogunshakin

Jimmy Ogunshakin

Jimmy Ogunshakin founded Mayflower Solicitors. He graduated with a LLB Law (Hons) degree in 1992…

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Elshareef Ali Mohammed

An international human rights lawyer who worked on one of the most significant global cases of 2014…

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Julian Knowles

Julian B. Knowles

Julian has built a distinguished career as a barrister specialising in criminal and human rights…

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Koser Shaheen

Koser Shaheen

Her course inspired Koser to aim high, and she was offered five mini-pupillages.

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Frances Kirkham

Frances Kirkham CBE

Becoming a solicitor in 1978, Frances' work has seen her travel across the world.

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