Less places and more competition

The Gazette has picked up some more interesting findings from the Law Society’s data. It looks like training contracts for would-be solicitors are becoming thinner on the ground, with an 18% decrease from last year’s figure of 5,809 training contracts offered down to 4,784. Although we mentioned the glass ceiling yesterday, it is interesting to note that over 60% of new entrants to the profession are women. I wonder how many will make partner in ten or years’ time or thereabouts?

In any event, competition will remain fierce, with 15,000 places on LPC courses available next year. Still, it could be worse - it could be the race for pupillage!

Tesco Law, John Lewis-style ads and ABSs [2 Apr 2012]
Quality problems for the judiciary? [8 Dec 2011]
Do we need more pupillages? [25 Oct 2011]
Modern Legal Apprenticeships [27 Sep 2011]
On Duty [7 Sep 2011]
The Inns of Court [16 May 2011]
Solicitors: more of them, and more diverse. [4 Apr 2011]
No Bar to The Bar [22 Mar 2011]
Inequality in the profession - “more needs to be done” [8 Mar 2011]
Silk… [23 Feb 2011]
The two-year LLB [2 Feb 2011]
Free interactive resource! [25 Jan 2011]
A career in legal advice work? [24 Jan 2011]
How to be a city solicitor - and a podcast… [25 Aug 2010]
Judicial diversity [5 Jul 2010]
Pupillage…. getting fairer or wishful thinking? [21 May 2010]
The beginning of the end for Tesco Law? [31 Mar 2010]
Are law students being taken for a ride? [11 Dec 2009]
Tesco Law here we come? [19 Nov 2009]
Simon Myerson QC on life at the bar and advice on getting pupillage [26 Oct 2009]