From a more rural firm of Shropshire solicitors, right through to busy corporate lawyers in the City of London, law has been an attractive career for people for hundreds of years now. Around sixty years ago, this career choice would have been reserved for the more fortunate people in society; getting to university for the working class was far easier said than done.

Over the past couple of decades this has all changed. Getting into university reached a huge peak a few years ago and class snobbery was definitely becoming a thing of the past with some tertiary learning institutions. Admittedly though, it is still thought that this elitist attitude prevails in some of the UK’s top universities.

I am one of the many thousands who studied toward a law degree and managed to secure myself a good role of employment through it. However, it was during this employment that it suddenly dawned on me that the legal industry was actually a horrible place to work. My experience showed that the solicitors in these firms were rich for a reason - in my case because they paid their staff an immoral pittance and were so flippin’ mean.

If you remain convinced that becoming a solicitor is the best way forward for you, do be mindful of this fact. It will take a lot of very hard work and you should definitely aim for at least 2:1 with your LLB to be taken seriously within the profession.