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A career

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THE STUDYOFLAW

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Thestudyoflawdiffers

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1 Which coursesdo lawstudentsin the UKhaveto take?

2 Whichoptionalcoursesmighta studentwhowants to workin a big

lawfirmtake?

Thestudyof lawis intellectually

stimulatingandchallenging,

andcanleadto a

varietyof interesting careers.

includecoresubjectssuch as

criminallaw,contract law,tort law,land law, equityandtrusts, administrative

law andconstitutional law. In addition,studentsare oftenrequiredto take

courses coveringskillssuchas legalwritingandlegalresearch.

typically

coursesavailable.Sincemany

lawstudentsgo onto becomelawyers,studentsoftentakecourses that

willbeusefulto themduringtheirfuturecareers. Someonewishingto runa

small partnership orto workalone as a sole practitioner in a smalltownmay

decideto take subjectssuchas familylaw, employmentlaw and housinglaw.

Thosewishingto workin a largelawpractice willconsidersubjectssuchas

companylaw,commerciallaw and litigation andarbitration.

Many universitiesalsooffercourseson legalpractice. Courseslikethis give

studentsthe opportunity

theworkof a lawyerbeforedeciding

ona careerinthe law.Another wayof findingoutmoreaboutlawin practice

to experience

to get involvedwitha voluntary advicecentreor lawclinic.Theseclinicsoffer

freelegalassistanceto the local communityand provide a usefulintroduction

to someof the day-to-dayworkof a lawyer.

look

at fourthings:education,personality, workexperienceandlanguage ability.

SinceEnglish

is essential.Whenlawfirms hirenewrecruits,

they generally

is the languageof the international

legalcommunity,

lawfirms

increasingly

expect graduates

to havea good commandof English.

1 1US¡ programs

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Inthe UKandthe USA,law degree programmes usuallytakethree years to

complete.Inthe UK,theseprogrammes

Thereis alsoa varietyof optional (elective)

Forstudentswishingto workina commercialpractice, knowledgeof foreign

languages

Readthe textagainand decidewhetherthesestatementsaretrue (T)or false

(F). lf the statement is false,correctit.

I A courseinfamilylawis usuallyincludedamong the coresubjectsat law

schoolsintheUK.

2 Some lawdegree programmes offercoursesin someof the important skillsthat

lawyersneedin orderto dotheirwork,suchas legalwritingor legalEnglish.

3 Lawclinics givelawstudentsthe opportunity

to learnaboutthe legal problems

of the medical profession.

4 Today,commercial

law firms expectrecruitsto be completely

fluentin English.

you shouldtryto writedownas many collocations

as you can,and not only singlewords.

Howmanycollocations with the wordslegal(e.9. legalwritin$ and law (e.9. Iaw

firm)can you find in the text?

I: Lawfirnnsandcourses

4 Discussthese questions witha partner. Lookat the sampleresponses.

1 Whattypeof lawfirmdo you(thinkyou wouldliketo) workin?

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2 Whichoptionalcoursesare you taking / did you takeduring yourstudies?

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5 Reading

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textsin a foreignlanguageoftenmeansencountering

unfamiliar

words.Discussthese questionswitha partner.

listof strategies anddiscusshowusefultheyare.

Whatfactorsmightaffectthe strategy you use?

the new wordwiththe helpof surroundingwords.

ü Lookupeveryunknownwordin a dictionary.

ü lgnorethe unknownwordand readon.

ü Lookup somenewwords,ignoreothers.

ü Analyse

the unknownword:askwhat part of speech it is (a nounor an

adjective,

for example);

if it hasa rootor a prefix(Latin or French,

for

that mayhelp you understand

it; if it hasa positive or negative

meaning,etc.

Keepthesestrategies

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the texton page10.

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