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What are all the branches of law that you can become a lawyer in, such as a criminal lawyer?


I hope to read law sometime in the forseeable future but the only branches of law that i'm aware of are criminal, divorce and environmental law. What are the other branches that you can become a lawyer in, as law is so vast i wish to know what other options are available to widen the possibilities for the future.

This link gives a good summary of areas of the law, but it is by no means complete and many lawyers specialise in small branches of those areas, where they see that there is a demand for their expertise. Some lawyers are versatile enough to move from one area to another as new prospects open up. Others combine their legal work with some other discipline -- eg. accountancy. It is a good thing not to think too early about specialising, but to leave the field wide open. It is indeed a vast field and could take you literally all over the world. http://www.lawcareers.net/Information/Fi...

Don't panic. It will be a while before you will have to choose any speciality as you will have to study general topics such as tort, contract, etc before that. I specialised in crime, which itself can be divided further into white collar crime, prison law, fraud, sexual offences, road traffic, etc. More general specialisations are too numerous to list, but include intellectual property/copyright law, company law, commercial law, employment law, health and safety, local government, government (ie drafting leglislation -see the Government Legal Service website), property law, landlord and tenant, welfare benefits, mental health, family law, etc and each of them has specialisations within.
I would suggest at this point you just learn as much as you can about different aspects of the law but do not choose any speciality yet until you need to choose options for your law degree.
Hope that helps. Good luck.

There's no definite list. Go to any law school website and look through the course catelogue and you will see a plethera of different areas of law one can study. Even those long lists aren't exhaustive. Most lawyers don't specialize like doctors do. They specialize in whatever they're doing, they don't pick a specialty during school and study that alone. At least in the US, other countries do it differently.

You can pick and specialize in basically anything you want.
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