Newest Review: ... at which point you will hopefully be offered tenancy (effectively a job with the Chambers), and your career can progress from there. It seems so easy when I write it like that, but it isn't, so it's time to delve a little deeper. THE LAW DEGREE The first significant step on the road to becoming a barrister is the law degree. Whether you do a straightforward law degree or law with another subject such as a language is largely irrelevant. It should be noted that if you already have a degree that isn't law, you can do a GDL (Graduate Diploma in Law) in one year which is equivalent to a law degree. It should also be noted at this stage that do... more