[LEGAL ARTICLE]
Becoming a lawyer and being a good lawyer is the desire of many people. Not only is Lawyers a noble profession, contributing to the protection of the law and righteousness, but also giving them a full and prosperous life. However, compared to other professions trained domestically, the legal training period is much longer. Besides, in addition to time, you also have to spend a "capital" in the learning process to become a lawyer. Today's article will help you better understand "Costs to Become a Lawyer".

1️⃣ Hold a Bachelor of Laws degree:
- To get a Bachelor of Laws degree, you must pass the university entrance exam in Law and graduate with a bachelor's degree. Usually the duration of a law degree is 4 years. Nowadays, there are more and more law training institutions, let's refer to the tuition fees in some of these institutions. Accordingly, the expected tuition fees of the 2020-2021 school year under the high-quality training program are as follows:
+ Hanoi Law University: VND 9,800,000 / year
+ Ho Chi Minh City University of Law: 18,000,000 VND / year
+ University of Economics - Law - Ho Chi Minh City National University: VND 9,800,000 / year
+ Law University - Hue University: VND 9,800,000 / year
+ Ton Duc Thang University: 18,500,000 VND / year
+ HUTECH University: 26,000,000 VND / year

2️⃣ Attend a lawyer training course: 12 months
- After being granted a Bachelor of Laws degree, you can register and submit your application to the Lawyer training course at the Judicial Academy. The training period of this course usually lasts 12 months. Completion of the lawyer's vocational training program will be granted a graduate certificate of law training by the Judicial Academy.
- Pursuant to Decision No. 432 / QD-HVTP dated April 8, 2020 of the Judicial Academy, tuition fee for open training course 2020 at:
+ Judicial Academy in Hanoi: 22,760,000 VND / course
+ Judicial Academy in Ho Chi Minh City: 25,190,000 VND / course

3️⃣ Internship at a law practice organization: 12 months
- When you have completed the law training course, you will continue to register as a lawyer at law-practicing organizations. Based on Resolution No. 05 / NQ-HDLSTQ of the National Lawyers Council, the highest probationary fee for a lawyer apprentice is no more than 5,000,000 VND / person, if you are lucky you will be able to apply There is no fee to enter the apprentice office.

4️⃣ Granting the Law Practice Certificate:
- After the internship period ends, you will have to take an exam for the probationary result organized by the Vietnam Bar Federation. If you get enough points, you can send your application for a law practice certificate to the Bar Association's Executive Board.
- After having a practice certificate, the lawyer will have to pay the fee to join the bar association with the highest fee not exceeding VND 10,000,000 / person. After joining, the lawyer also needs to pay an additional membership fee of 200,000 VND / month.

5️⃣ Waiting for the Law Practice Certificate:
At this stage, you have almost one short step to reach your dream of becoming a lawyer. What you need to do now is to send your application file for the Law Practice Certificate to the Bar Association's Executive Board.
In addition to the above costs, there are also expenses for items such as books, documents, extra classes, certificates (MOS, IELTS, TOEIC) ...
Thus, the total time from university to the time being granted a practicing certificate, if studying continuously without interruption and without failing any exam, will be 6 years. The average cost for this period is about 77,000,000-144,200,000 VND / person.
(The above fees are for reference only and may change from time to time.)
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