School of Law

Career Opportunities

With a Scots Law LLB, you can go on to become a solicitor or advocate in Scotland, provided you complete the required professional training.

Your degree also opens doors to careers in government, policy-making, finance, compliance, and even international organisations—anywhere your legal knowledge and critical thinking skills can make a difference.

Recent Scots Law graduates have gone on to work for a number of different legal firms and companies, including the following: 

• Legal: Ashurst LLP, Brodies LLP, Burness Paull LLP, BTO Solicitors, Dentons, Shoosmiths Solicitors, Thorntons Law, Turner and Townsend, John Kilcoyne Solicitors, DAC Beechcroft, DWL LLP, Evelyn Partners, Harper MacLeod, Kerr Brown Solicitors, Waterman’s Solicitors, Thompsons Solicitors, Shepherd and Wedderburn, Just Employment Law
• Government: Scottish Parliament, Scottish Power, HMRC, NHS

Further Study

To become a solicitor or advocate in Scotland, your next step is the diploma which will provide you with the necessary qualification to pursue a legal traineeship.

• Professional Legal Practice (PgDip)

To acquire more specialist knowledge of the law to progress in your chosen career, you can pursue a master of laws at the postgraduate level.

• Master of Laws (LLM)

For a career in academia as a researcher or lecturer, a postgraduate research degree will help you develop skills in research methods and focus on a research topic.

• Law Postgraduate Research (PhD)

Legal Qualification

To become a solicitor in Scotland: Law Society of Scotland

To become an advocate in Scotland: The Faculty of Advocates

To become dual-qualified in Scotland and other jurisidictions: Law Society of Scotland dual-qualification