The Law Graduate

The Law Degree trains professionals to have a strong command of the various branches of the Spanish legal system, as well as in European Law and international Law.

Loyola University encourages, moreover, the training of future professionals to be aware of globalization processes of social, economic, political and environmental reality, to be capable of resolving conflicts and able to communicate, both as leaders and innovators.

Why study Law?

The Law Degree is one of the most versatile university degrees as far as career prospects are concerned, in both law practice as well as other areas.  This degree enables its graduates to work in different legal areas, such as in the practice of law, as attorney-at-law, judiciaries, notaries, registries or in diplomatic careers.

The Law Degree is also an ideal training basis for those wishing to engage in the management of other companies or organizations, since combined with a graduate degree, it prepares for work in Company Management, Human Resources, Marketing, Sales, Insurance, Banking, the Stock Market, etc. In addition, the Law Degree allows professionals to participate in legal, tax, governmental, research and teaching assessment.

Law is a discipline that not only seeks to explain the whys and wherefores of things, but also tries to find the logic behind the main issues and challenges facing the human being. For this reason, it helps to develop skills and aptitudes that are very useful in life, like the ability to: analyze; to search for solutions to complex problems by applying the Law combined with the principles of justice and fairness; to improve the ability for self-expression and oral and written argumentation as well as Rhetoric and Oratory.

Loyola University collaborates with important national and international law firms, so that students can do internships in leading companies.  It is a practical career that allows an understanding of the labor market during the learning stage. Students can participate in academic exchanges in the most prestigious universities in Europe, the United States Asia and South America.

Internships

Loyola University provides the students with the possibility to do internships in external companies and institutions.  The external internships are handled by the Service for Employability and Entrepreneurship. which coordinates all the processes and activities leading to the correct development of these internships, which are regulated by existing legislation and the internal regime which complements it.

Entre el volumen de empresas e instituciones con las que contamos para llevar a cabo la realización de prácticas externas por nuestros estudiantes mostramos a continuación una muestra representativa de diferentes sectores:

• Abad Cepedello Asesores
• Abogados y Asociados Fortuny
• Accenture
• Aroca
• Arévalo
• Quiros Abogados
• Bufete Agüera & Fuentes
• Bufete Martínez Afán
• Bufete Muriel Prieto
• Bufete Serrano Aznar
• Bufete Tristán y Asociados S.L.
• Deloitte

• Despacho Carmona Jurado
• Despacho Fernández Artero
• Despacho Higuera Álvarez de los Corrales
• Despacho Merino Montes
• Despacho Romero Marta
• Despacho Sánchez de Puerta
• Despacho Secilla Sánchez
• Despacho Serrano Gómez
• Despacho Zafra Cabrera
• Erns & Young
• Garrigues Abogado
• PMG
• Lara Valle Abogados
• Management Solutions Spain

• Notaría Alburquerque Llorens
• Notaría Díaz-Vieito Piélagos
• Notaría Gari Munsuri
• Notaría Montero Pérez-Barquero
• Notaría Seda Hermosín
• PwC
• Rich y Asociados
• Urbano & Berger Asesores.

To qualify for these internships

To qualify for these internships, it is obligatory to have passed at least 75% of the credits of subjects in the first three courses (among which will be computed all of those corresponding to the complete Basic Training of each degree) in order to be able to register in the Internships for each degree.

Career Prospects

The Law Degree is one of the most versatile university degrees with respect to career opportunities, allowing graduates to dedicate  themselves  to the following professional activities:

Liberal Professions

The former Licenciate in Law, and the current Law Degree have par excellence the free exercise of the attorney as a profession, that not only covers the defense of individuals in court, but also extends its influence daily to providing professional advice in the fields of business, finance, urbanism, insurance, etc.

In the same sphere of intervention as the courts of Justice and the management of processes is found the independent profession of Court Attorney.

And we can also mention other closed professions found within the field of action of Graduates in Law: Administrative Manager, Official Real Estate Broker, Agent of Industrial Property, Administrator of Real Estate, etc.

Business

With growing frequency, employees with legal studies are being incorporated into businesses, and not only in legal advisory roles or tasks. They are also in any other department that needs qualified people with analytical skills and decision-making capacity, such as: Human Resources Directors, Heads of Personnel, Heads of Administration, private company Administrators, Labor and Legal Advisors, etc.

Public Authorities and Local Governments

Quite a high percentage of Law Graduates are admitted to positions offered by different Public Authorities and Local Governments in general, through the corresponding civil-service competitive exams that are convened.

The possibilities cover a wide spectrum, the most relevant being: State judicial functions (Judges and Magistrates, Prosecutors and Court Clerks and the different bodies of Judicial Management, Proceedings and Assistance), positions advising and collaborating in constitutional organs (Legal Advisers to Courts, the Constitutional Tribunal, the State Counsel, the Court of Audits), Public Trust and Registers (public exams for Notaries or Land and Commercial Registries), other bodies in State Administration (State Attorneys Corps, Diplomats, Tax Inspectors, Labor Inspectors, etc.) in Local and Regional Governments (Administration Counsel, Legislative Assembly Counsel, State Corps Technicians, City Hall Secretaries and  Auditors, etc.) and reference can also be made to the civil servant positions in the European Union, which any Graduate in Spanish Law with the necessary language skills can aspire to.

Research and university education

Graduates in Law who have their Ph.D and pass the corresponding civil service exam, can also access a position of professor in the university