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Sunday 6 February 2011 at 3:03 pm | In News | Post Comment The number of qualified legal executives is is up 40% on the number in 2009 based on the the number entering for the Institute of Legal Executives (ILEX) examinations.

University is not the only route to a successful career in law and the legal executive route allows a student to be in paid employment whilst the study with ILEX. The Level 3 Professional Diploma in Law and Practice is equivalent to A-level.

ILEX is the professional body representing around 22,000 qualified and trainee Legal Executives, and is recognised by the Ministry of Justice as one of the three core routes to becoming a qualified lawyer.

Trainee legal executives can be valuable fee-earners for their firms as soon as they have gained their initial qualification, and a former legal executive, Ian Ashley-Smith, was made a deputy district judge on the South Eastern Circuit in December 2010.