Modern Legal Apprenticeships

As AS Law students will no doubt be about to learn, a legal education can be an expensive business when you factor in the cost of a degree as well as GDL/LPC/BVC depending on your chosen route into the profession. Perhaps it’s not too surprising then to see that lawyers themselves are now arguing that the time is right for a new route into the profession in the form of Modern Legal Apprenticeships. Strangely, these almost hark back to the old days of doing your “articles” by on-the-job training. For an example, see the scheme run by prestigous firm Pinsent Masons in conjunction with ILEX - so a route to qualifying as a legal exec, but into commercial law and with the chance of a training contract always there…

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