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Can I become a lawyer with a foreign degree?

Yes, but how you can then become a lawyer depends on where you got your law degree: in another European Union member state or outside.

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I obtained my law degree outside the European Union

If you obtained your law degree outside the European Union, you will not be easily admitted to the Belgian legal profession because foreign study programmes are often very different from the Belgian law school.

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I obtained my law degree in another Member State of the European Union

Are you Belgian or a national of another EU Member State and did you obtain your law degree in another composition of the European Union? Then you can undergo an aptitude test and thus be admitted to the profession of lawyer. However, there are some conditions attached to this.

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