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I plan to be studying Law at university in 2013. However, recently certain things have come to light which have I guess got me thinking about my future as a Lawyer. With this in mind, I want to know what are the alternate career paths for those who have a Law degree but don't end up working in the Law. I plan to be studying Law at university in 2013. However, recently certain things have come to light which have I guess got me thinking about my future as a Lawyer. With this in mind, I want to know what are the alternate career paths for those who have a Law degree but don't end up working in the Law. I'm kind of the same - I'll be starting Law too next year but not 100% set on becoming a barrister/solicitor as yet. Law graduates go into all kinds of career paths because it has many transferable skills such as critical analysis, research, oral/written communication skills, problem-solving, attention to detail etc. (obviously there's more, just a few examples). So any careers that involve these sets of skills. Some graduates go into the media, police force or join the civil service / government. Or careers completely unrelated to the law... Quite a few people I know want to go into the Civil Service Fast Stream and EU. The tax side of accountancy is another one a few people seem interested in. All the normal graduate management programmes that are open to grads of any degree discipline (ranging from the NHS to Rolls Royce via Tesco). Things such as being an mediator are more directly related to Law. Some people, particularly those at target unis where it's more widely advertised, go into things such as IB or management consultancy. One person from my year decided they want to be a Doctor and so has gone to do graduate Medicine. Jobs in academia, these obviously depend on finding out at degree then postgrad you want to devote yourself to academic law so this route would kind of unfold as at each stage you realise you're not ready to give up on study. Media, film etc. as mentioned above, you'd likely get into this at uni through a society then decide to pursue a career in it. Teaching's a slightly odd one because very few places teach Law until post 16, though if you want to do Primary Law is fine for preparation, and Secondary may accept you in shortage subjects if you have a good A Level grade. These are just some of the jobs you can do, basically unless it demands a specific degree (usually engineering or a science degree for research of some kind) you can go for it