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The figures are free and stay free. A subscription pays for the employer data and the application tools from £7.95 a month, and for the practice material and the comparisons from £16.95 — cancellable in two clicks.

  1. Open

    Free

    No card, no trial that turns into a charge.

    Every figure we publish, free to read, with its source.

    Anyone deciding whether law is for them, and anyone who only needs the numbers.

    Create a free account

    You get

    • Every published figure, with its source and date
    • Profession profiles: size, entry, pay and what they may do
    • How to choose a law course, and what the rankings measure
    • The Assize Careers law provider index
    • What a legal CV has to do
    • Every stage, and what it tests
    • Which tests you will sit, and how each is scored
    • The application calendar

  2. Data

    £7.95 a month

    or £79.50 a year — 10 months' price for twelve, saving £15.90

    The employer data, sortable and sourced, and the tools to apply with it.

    Anyone working out where to apply, and who wants the register behind the name.

    Everything below, plus

    • Employer explorer: who hires, where, and in what
    • Pay: what the published sources actually say
    • CV checker
    • Application tracker
    • Deadline reminders by email
    • Answers by email

    In preparation, and not charged for

    • What the whole route costs, year by year
    • CV and cover letter templates

  3. Most people need this one

    Applying

    £16.95 a month

    or £169.50 a year — 10 months' price for twelve, saving £33.90

    The practice material, the feedback and the full analysis, for a cycle.

    Anyone applying this cycle for a training contract, pupillage, apprenticeship or paralegal role.

    Everything below, plus

    • Sector and practice-area analysis
    • Where the work is: towns, regions and London's share
    • Where a legal career can end up: routes to the bench
    • Practice question banks
    • Timed sets, under the real limit
    • Your performance, analysed

    In preparation, and not charged for

    • Compare providers side by side
    • Build and save a shortlist
    • Application questions, worked
    • Question bank with model answers
    • Timed mock interviews
    • Commercial case studies and the commercial awareness brief
    • A plan for your cycle

  4. Pro

    £25.95 a month

    or £259.50 a year — 10 months' price for twelve, saving £51.90

    The data itself, the exports, and one application a human reads each cycle.

    Career changers, postgraduates, careers advisers and anyone who wants the data itself.

    Everything below, plus

    • Download the data (CSV)
    • A human reads your CV once a cycle

    In preparation, and not charged for

    • Benchmark yourself against the cohort
    • Evidence packs: what to say about a named employer
    • SQE1 question practice

What each plan includes

Cancel at any time from your account page. A monthly plan has no minimum term: a month is a month. A yearly plan costs 10 months' price, paid up front, so those twelve months are the term you have bought.

Industry and sector data

Who employs lawyers in England and Wales, where, in what, and what the registers show.

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Every published figure, with its source and date The headline numbers on the professions, the employers, the routes and the pay, each one citing the register or statistic it came from and the date it was last checked.
Profession profiles: size, entry, pay and what they may do One page per regulated legal profession: how many there are, who regulates them, the route in, what the register shows and what it does not.
Employer explorer: who hires, where, and in what Search the employers named on the public registers by town, practice area and legal aid category, and see how many qualified people each one employs. The national totals for each register, and legal aid offices by category and by postcode area.
Sector and practice-area analysis Which areas of law have the most authorised people and firms, which are concentrated in London, and which are growing on the registers. The national picture, without the per-town and per-firm breakdowns.
Where the work is: towns, regions and London's share Legal employment by town and region, with the London share for each profession, so you can see what applying outside the capital means.
Pay: what the published sources actually say Official earnings figures for legal occupations, the judicial salary table, and published pupillage awards, with every caveat the publisher attaches. The headline median for each occupation.
Where a legal career can end up: routes to the bench For every judicial office-holder whose route is known, the profession they came from, the years from call or admission to first appointment, and which rungs they climbed.
Benchmark yourself against the cohort How your qualifications, A-levels and experience compare with the published distribution for the route you are applying to. In preparation

Choosing where to study

Course and provider comparison built from published data, with the method written down.

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How to choose a law course, and what the rankings measure What an LLB, a conversion course, the SQE and the Bar course each commit you to, what they cost, and what the published rankings do and do not measure.
The Assize Careers law provider index Our own index of law providers, computed from published official data with the method and the weights published, reported as bands rather than ranks wherever the published confidence intervals overlap.
Compare providers side by side Put any providers next to each other on entry requirements, continuation, graduate outcomes, earnings and cost, and weight the metrics the way you care about them. In preparation In preparation
What the whole route costs, year by year Fees, assessment fees and living costs for each route to qualification, with the published figures and the funding that exists. In preparation In preparation In preparation
Build and save a shortlist Keep a shortlist of courses and providers with your own notes and deadlines against each. In preparation In preparation

CV and applications

Getting the paperwork past a screener and a human.

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What a legal CV has to do The structure, the length, what a screener looks for, and the twelve mistakes that cost an otherwise good application.
CV and cover letter templates Templates for the training contract, pupillage, apprenticeship and paralegal applications, in plain formats that survive an applicant tracking system. In preparation In preparation In preparation
CV checker Paste your CV and get it checked against the structure, length, verb and evidence rules, with the specific lines that need work. Your text is not stored.
Application questions, worked The recurring written questions — why this firm, why commercial law, a time you showed resilience — with worked answers and the reasoning behind each one. In preparation In preparation
Evidence packs: what to say about a named employer For an employer on the register, the facts you can cite in an application — size, offices, practice areas, legal aid categories, who else works there — each with its source. In preparation

Interviews and assessment centres

What each stage is actually testing.

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Every stage, and what it tests Screening call, competency interview, case study, group exercise, written exercise, partner interview and the pupillage gateway panel, each with what the assessor is scoring.
Question bank with model answers Several hundred real-format questions by stage and by route, each with a model answer, the structure behind it, and what a weak answer looks like. In preparation In preparation
Timed mock interviews Sit a timed set in the format you are facing, record or type your answers, and mark them against the criteria these exercises are generally built on, since no employer publishes its own. In preparation In preparation
Commercial case studies and the commercial awareness brief Full case-study exercises with model workings, and a regular brief on the commercial stories a candidate is expected to have an opinion about. In preparation In preparation

Aptitude and test practice

Original practice material in the published formats.

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Which tests you will sit, and how each is scored Critical thinking, verbal and numerical reasoning, situational judgement, the LNAT and the SQE's assessment style: what each format is, how long it takes and how it is marked.
Practice question banks Original practice questions in the published formats, with full explanations. Written by us: not the publisher's own items, and not affiliated with or endorsed by any test publisher.
Timed sets, under the real limit Every practice set carries the time the real format allows and a clock you start when you are ready. Your timing per question is then on your progress page.
Your performance, analysed Where you lose marks by question type, how your timing changes through a set, and what to practise next. Measured against your own earlier attempts — never against a test publisher's norms, which are theirs and are not ours to convert.
SQE1 question practice Original single-best-answer questions across the functioning legal knowledge areas, in the published assessment style, with explanations and references. In preparation

Planning the cycle

Deadlines, tracking and what to do next.

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The application calendar Every published deadline for the cycle — training contracts, vacation schemes, pupillage gateway, apprenticeships — in one calendar, with the source for each date.
Application tracker Track every application you have open, what stage it is at, what is due next, and what you said last time.
A plan for your cycle A week-by-week plan from where you are now to the deadlines you are working to, built from what you tell us about your position. In preparation In preparation
Deadline reminders by email Email reminders before each deadline on your shortlist. One email, never a marketing list.

Support and exports

Answers, data downloads and reuse.

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Download the data (CSV) Every table on the site as a CSV, with its source, licence and the date it was last refreshed, for your own analysis.
Answers by email Ask us about anything on the site. We answer within two working days.
A human reads your CV once a cycle Once in each application cycle, send us your CV and one application answer and we will return written comments. Not a guarantee of an outcome, and not legal or careers advice regulated by anyone.

The things people ask before paying

What does the free plan actually include?

Every figure we publish, with its source and date; the profession profiles; the guides to choosing a course and to each route into law; the application calendar with a source for every date; and the explanation of each test format, with what each one is scoring. No card, and no trial that turns into a charge.

Why is a year 10 months' price?

Because paying for a year up front is worth two months to us, so we hand the two months back. £16.95 a month is £203.40 over a year; the yearly plan is £169.50. You are not tied in: cancel a yearly plan and you keep it until the year you paid for runs out.

How do I cancel?

From your account page, in two clicks, at any time. No email, no notice period, no cancellation fee, and no telephone call. Cancelling stops the next payment and you keep access until the end of the period you have paid for.

We also email you before a renewal — 7 days before a monthly one and 28 days before a yearly one — so a renewal is never a surprise.

What if I change my mind straight away?

You have 14 days from the day after you subscribe to cancel for a refund, under the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013. Because the service starts immediately at your request, we may keep a proportionate amount for any work a person has already done for you in that time — a CV review, or an answer to a support request — and nothing for the material you have read. Email enquiries@assizedata.co.uk and we will deal with it. The full terms are on subscriptions and cancellation.

Is there a student discount?

No, because the price is already set for students: the Data plan at £7.95 is the student price, and the free plan is not a crippled demonstration. We would rather publish one honest price than a list price nobody pays.

Do you take money from law firms?

No. No employer pays to be listed, to be ranked, or for your details. There is no jobs board and there are no referral fees. If that ever changes — a sponsored report, say — it will be labelled on the page, which is a commitment on the brand page.

Is VAT included?

There is no VAT to add. Assize Data Ltd is not registered for VAT, so the price you see is the price charged. If that changes we will say so here before it affects anyone.

Can I buy this for a class or a careers service?

Not yet as a single purchase. If you advise students for a living, the Pro plan gives you the data and the downloads to work from. Email enquiries@assizedata.co.uk and tell us what you need; we would rather build the right thing than guess at a licence.

What happens if a payment fails?

Nothing abrupt. Stripe retries the card over the following days and your access stays open for a fortnight while that runs. You can replace the card yourself at any point in the billing portal. Nothing you have saved is deleted if it lapses: it is there when you come back.

Assize Careers is not a regulator, professional body, university, law school or official careers service, and it is not part of or endorsed by one. Nothing on this site is legal advice.