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Solicitor (level 7)

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Progressing legal matters and transactions, applying legal knowledge and commercial judgement to produce solutions which meet clients' needs.

• Knowledge, skills and behaviours:
  View knowledge, skills and behaviours

  Knowledge

  • Core legal principles and rules to practise effectively as set out in the Solicitors Regulation Authority Statements of Functioning Legal Knowledge. This includes for example property law, contract law, criminal law, business law and special rules relating to property transactions, criminal proceedings and the resolution of disputes in proceedings relating to contract disputes and negligence claims.
  • Solicitors Regulation Authority Standards and Regulations, Principles and Code of Conduct.
  • Approaches to effective questioning and active listening.
  • Approaches to legal research including identifying relevant sources, analysing, assessing information and identifying evidence gaps.
  • Approaches to interpreting and evaluating information.
  • Approaches to recording and presenting information accurately and clearly.
  • Approaches to developing options, strategies and solutions.
  • Approaches to identifying the client including their commercial and personal circumstances, needs, objectives, priorities and constraints.
  • Approaches to developing and providing advice informed by appropriate and factual legal analysis.
  • Principles of drafting documents from scratch and using precedents which address all legal and factual issues, complying with all formalities and using clear, accurate and succinct language.
  • The requirements for effective spoken and written advocacy in court and outside of formal court hearings.
  • Approaches to negotiation.
  • Principles of workflow and case management, for example, case management systems and software packages.
  • Principles of risk assessment.

  Skills

  • Obtain relevant facts by effective questioning and active listening.
  • Find, analyse, and assess documents to extract relevant information including recognising when additional information is needed , interpreting and evaluating information obtained, recording and presenting information accurately and clearly.
  • Recognise when legal research is needed and use appropriate methods and resources including identifying, finding and assessing the relevance of sources of law, interpreting, evaluating and applying research results, recording and presenting findings of research accurately and clearly.
  • Develop strategies and solutions including an understanding of a client’s commercial and personal circumstances, their needs, objectives, priorities and constraints.
  • Provide advice which is informed by appropriate and factual legal analysis and identifying the consequences of different options.
  • Draft documents from scratch and use precedents which address all legal and factual issues, complying with all formalities and using clear, accurate and succinct language.
  • Undertake effective spoken and written advocacy in court and outside of formal court hearings including: effective preparation by identifying and mastering relevant facts and legal principles, organize facts to support an argument or position, present a reasoned argument in a clear, logical, succinct persuasive way, make appropriate references to legal authority, comply with formalities, deal with witnesses appropriately, respond effectively to questions or opposing arguments, identify strengths and weaknesses from different parties’ perspectives.
  • Negotiate solutions to clients’ issues including: identify all parties’ interests, objectives and limits, developing and formulating best options for meeting parties’ objectives, presenting options for compromises persuasively, responding to options presented by the other side, developing compromises between options or parties.
  • Plan and manage legal cases and transactions including applying relevant processes and procedures to progress matters effectively, assessing, communicating and managing risk, bringing a transaction or case to a conclusion.

  Behaviours

  • Ethics - Act honestly and with integrity, in accordance with the law and the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s Standards and Regulations, Principles and the Code of Conduct including considering the principles of equity, diversity and inclusion.
  • Professionalism and Judgement - Maintain the level of competence and legal knowledge needed to practise effectively, taking into account changes in their role or practice context and developments in the law and working within the limits of their competence and the supervision which they need, drawing on a detailed knowledge and understanding of their field(s) of work in order to practise effectively.
• Apprenticeship category (sector): Legal, finance and accounting
• Qualification level: 7; Equal to master’s degree
• Course duration: 60 months
• Maximum funding: £27,000 ; Maximum government funding for ; apprenticeship training and assessment costs.
• Job titles include:
  • Banking solicitor
  • Catastrophic injury solicitor
  • Charity solicitor
  • Civil liberties solicitor
  • Civil litigation solicitor
  • Clinical negligence solicitor
  • Competition law solicitor
  • Corporate tax solicitor
  • Criminal solicitor
  • Dispute resolution solicitor
  • Employment solicitor
  • Family solicitor
  • Immigration solicitor
  • Insolvency solicitor
  • Private client solicitor
  • Property litigation solicitor
  • Public law solicitor
  • Real estate solicitor
  • Residential property solicitor
  • Social welfare law solicitor
  • Tax solicitor
  • Environmental solicitor

View more information about Solicitor (level 7) from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.