A future career Obviously, the Law Society Local Government Group hopes that when you qualify you will stay in local government as a solicitor. There is a clear career path from Assistant Solicitor to Head of Legal Services or to Director with responsibilities for other areas of local authority work as well as legal services. Many Chief Executives of local authorities are solicitors. Nevertheless, training in local government opens the door to many other sectors of the profession private practice, Crown Prosecution Service, and commerce and industry. Your experience and skills will be appreciated in whichever sector of the profession you choose to work and many private practice firms are actively recruiting local authority solicitors.
Solicitors are members of a single, comprehensive profession.
The future of local government It seems that local government has been subject to constant change over the last 25 years. The fact that it has survived and improved its services is in no small part due to the people who work for local government and believe in its future. Central government is now committed to working in partnership with local government, but requires local authorities to prove that they are capable of providing services to the best possible value, and duties to that effect are being imposed. New forms of local democracy are also being tested and new requirements to ensure probity are being proposed. All of this brings in new roles for the lawyer.