Revision
This apprenticeship standard is being revised. The trailblazer group has not yet submitted a revised version for approval. Further details of this and other apprenticeship standards in revision are available in the revisions status report.
Progressing legal matters and transactions, applying legal knowledge and commercial judgement to produce solutions which meet clients' needs.
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Solicitor
This role has responsibility for providing legal advice to clients through:
In order to successfully meet the Apprenticeship standard leading to qualification as a solicitor, apprentices must demonstrate that they can:
Ethics, professionalism and judgement
Technical legal practice
Working with other people
Managing themselves and their own work
5-6 years
This may be reduced if exemptions from training are applicable.
Individual employers will identify any relevant entry requirements in terms of previous qualifications or other criteria.
Our recommended minimum entry requirements are:
Services, and Providing Financial Services (may be entitled to exemptions from training);
The standard is based on the SRA's Statement of Solicitor Competence . Achievement of the standard and the associated apprenticeship assessment plan will satisfy the SRA's regulatory framework for qualification as a solicitor, subject to the SRA's usual tests of character and suitability.
This standard will be reviewed in three years.
This is a Regulated occupation.
Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA)
Training provider must be approved by regulator body
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Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA)
Training provider must be approved by regulator body
Version | Change detail | Earliest start date | Latest start date | Latest end date |
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1.0 | Approved for delivery | 03/09/2015 | Not set | Not set |