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Time to ditch the LPC?

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Firstly, thank you Catrin for bringing the ILEX route to the attention of the Lawyer readers. Your comment from a Legal Executive is correct that the ILEX route can be also be used towards qualifying as a solicitor. If you are a Fellow of ILEX before you complete the LPC you should be exempt from the two-year training contract, although that is at the discretion of the SRA. However, a career as a Legal Executive is a rewarding and fulfilling career in its own right, and is on an increasingly level playing field to that of a solicitor. The latest rights given to Legal Executive lawyers, including the right to become a partner in a firm; become a judge or be an advocate, means that the role and standing of Legal Executive lawyers is now pretty much the same as that of solicitors anyway.

Posted date

5-Aug-2009

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3:22 pm

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