Legal executive

Legal executives specialise in one area of law and carry out similar tasks to solicitors.

Solicitor

Solicitors advise clients about the law and act on their behalf in legal matters.

Magistrate

Magistrates are volunteers who hear cases in court. They pass judgements and hand down short sentences, fines and other penalties.

Judge

Judges hear evidence in criminal and civil courts, make rulings and pass sentences based on the information presented during cases.

Barrister

Barristers give advice to solicitors and represent people in disagreements, investigations and in court.

Court legal adviser

Court legal advisers are lawyers who give advice about the law to magistrates and judges.

Human Rights Barrister

Oscar Davies is an award-winning human rights barrister and LGBTQ+ campaigner. They also happen to be the UK's first non-binary barrister. Here they speak to N2K about their career path, coming out and what it takes to work in law.

Celebrity Relations Lead

What do you get when you mix climate change action with pop singers and movie stars? A celebrity relations lead. Here Siobhan Bailey-Turner tells N2K all about her role as celebrity relations lead for the World Wide Fund for Nature.

Aquatic Ecologist

Meet Maya. She's a graduate aquatic ecologist for an environmental consulting company in Wales. She spoke to N2K about what exactly that involves and how she got there.

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Almost 2 million people in the UK are freelancers, or freelance workers. In a world of 9-to-5s and office-based jobs, they march to the beat of their own business drum. 🤔 But what does it mean to be a freelancer? And should you become one?

The Girl Boss is dead. Make way for the ✨ Lazy Girl ✨. Almost ten years on from peak #girlboss era, the popularity of the #lazygirljob hashtag on TikTok (over 17 million views) suggests that young people are now happy doing the bare minimum at work. But there’s a bit more to it. We explored the trend and spoke to a careers coach to get to the bottom of whether Gen Z really are lazy.

🧑‍💻 Hybrid work. It’s a phrase you might have seen or heard. But what actually is it? Why do people do it? And is it the right style of work for you?

Finding your future career — one that you’ll enjoy doing and that will help the planet — is tough. We think it should be easy. We’re Need to Know. A news outlet and a careers platform. And we’re here to help you find topics and careers to care about.