Progressing legal matters and transactions, applying legal knowledge and commercial judgment to produce solutions which meet clients’ needs.
Occupational Profile
This role has responsibility for providing legal advice to clients through:
- acting ethically, with professionalism and judgement;
- progressing legal matters and transactions;
- applying legal knowledge and commercial judgement to produce solutions which meet clients’ needs and address their commercial or personal circumstances;
- deploying the full range of legal skills – research, interviewing and advising, advocacy,
- negotiation, drafting, communicating orally and in writing;
- establishing and maintaining effective and professional relationships with clients and other people; and
- managing themselves and their own work effectively.
Summary of standard
https://www.instituteforapprenticeships.org/apprenticeship-standards/solicitor/
Full standard
https://www.instituteforapprenticeships.org/media/1091/solicitor.pdf