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Lawyers and Quebec notaries provide legal advice and represent clients; prepare contracts, wills, and other legal documents; and may act as executors, trustees or guardians in estate/family law matters. They may specialize in specific areas of law such as criminal law (lawyers only) and corporate, real estate, and labour law.
Lawyers also plead cases or conduct prosecutions before courts of law, tribunals/boards, and negotiate civil dispute settlements.
schoolEducation
To work in this field, you need a pre-law college or university program and a bachelor's degree from a law school.
To be a lawyer, you must complete a period of articling, a bar admission course and exam, and a licence in the province/territory where you'll work.
Most recent entrants have an undergraduate university degree, and almost 1 in 4 has a graduate degree.
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University of Sunderland
Sunderland, England, GB
Related Program(s): Law (LLB) Bachelor; Honours
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Cardiff University
Cardiff, Wales, GB
Related Program(s): Law (LLB) Bachelor Law and Criminology (LLB) Bachelor
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University of Kent
Canterbury, England, GB
Related Program(s): International Legal Studies with a Year Abroad (LLB) Bachelor; Honours Law (LLB) Bachelor; Honours
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University of Bristol
Bristol, England, GB
Related Program(s): Law with Study in Continental Europe (LLB) Bachelor International Foundation Programme (Social Sciences and Law) Bachelor
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University of Alberta - Faculty of Graduate Studies & Research
Edmonton, Alberta, CA
Related Program(s): Business Administration and Law (Combined Program) Master
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Liberty University - School of Graduate Studies
Lynchburg, Virginia, US
Related Program(s): Juris Doctor (J.D.) Doctorate
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