What are the benefits of doing a legal apprenticeship rather than a university degree?

Hi Christopher! We can firstly put it across by duration. If you did a university degree, this would take you 3 years to get your LLB hons in law, and, provided you get a training contract straight after university, that is another 3 years due to sitting SQE for 1 year. Altogether, that is 6 years. To compare to us solicitor apprentices, we gain our law degree, whilst working and earning at TLT, with no university debt. We move to trainees in years 5 and 6, and sit our SQE. Therefore, it is the same amount of time. Moving to the many other benefits, we are working at a law firm from the get go, the knowledge you can absorb at a law firm, amongst lawyers, is incomparable to university in my opinion. We see it applied in the real world, and also work on those cases/projects too which gives us invaluable experience. We rotate seats every year for 4 years and once trainees, every 6 months. As much as im not qualified yet, I feel very confident in the fact that I will be certain as to what area of law I feel is right for me, due to the amount of sectors we get the opportunity to work in. I hope this helps, please let me know if you want to know anything else/further!