Lawyer Skills you Need for your CV and Career in Legal

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Lawyer Skills List in Legal

Below we have compiled a list of the most popular skills for a Lawyer role. We ranked the top skills based on the percentage of Lawyer job descriptions they appeared on. For example, 17% of Lawyer job descriptions contained planning as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

planning
17%
solicitors
17%
liverpool
17%
confidentiality
17%
applications
17%
governance
17%
equal opportunities
17%
investigation
17%
intellectual property
17%
responding
17%
qualified solicitor
17%
junior solicitor
17%
senior solicitor
17%
solicitor
17%
in-house solicitor
17%
clerk
17%
degree
17%
law
17%
construction
17%
legal
17%
lawyer
17%
nq
17%
manchester
17%
paralegal
17%
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While these keywords are a good start, remember that every job is different. Instead of including all these keywords on your CV, identify the keywords most relevant to the job you're applying to and include those. For the best chance of success use our CV keyword scanner tool to help with this.

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