Tag: Social mobility
Linklaters targets disadvantaged teens with career support scheme
New programme also looks to help young wannabe lawyers from racially diverse backgrounds through tutoring, mentoring and work shadowing opportunities
Magic circle trainee’s mentoring programme secures first law school sign-up
GROW mentoring partners with Coventry Uni to pair students with lawyers
Freshfields targets social mobility ‘cold spots’ with sixth form mentoring scheme
Teens eligible for paid internships at magic circle firm
Legal profession making ‘significant progress’ on diversity — but top roles remain a problem
Lawyers disproportionately likely to come from privileged backgrounds, report finds
Law firms dominate social mobility employer list
Top ten spots for BCLP, Browne Jacobson, HSF and Bakers
Legal sector dominates social mobility power list
Top ten spots for Baker McKenzie, Linklaters and BCLP
Linklaters launches new ‘virtual reality’ legal internship
The digital internship is designed to improve social mobility
Top criminal QC: ‘Let’s give disadvantaged kids role models beyond pop stars and YouTubers’
Chris Daw QC’s social mobility film featured on BBC1’s The One Show goes viral among profession
14 law firms named on 2018 social mobility power list
Top 10 spots for Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner and Baker McKenzie
Number of privately-educated law students falls as state school kids increase by thousands
Exclusive: Profession's social mobility problem not reflected at university level
Hill Dickinson admits auctioning off work experience ‘had not been thought through’ as it pulls listing
Two-week placement had formed charity auction lot
Privately-educated lawyers more likely to earn higher salaries
And by some margin
‘Introduce quotas for state school educated barristers and judges,’ suggests Guardian journalist
Ellie Mae O’Hagan tells Legal Cheek she hopes column will help 'address the problem of elitism'
City law firms dominate first ever social mobility employer index
MoJ and Inner Temple also recognised for their endeavours to help disadvantaged young people
‘Social mobility initiatives are targeting the wrong people: I would know — I was one of them’
Legal Cheek’s Katie King explains why they must be more selective
Research: Israel, Italy, New Zealand and South Africa all have more diverse judiciaries than us
Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Norway, Sweden and the USA too
Diversity isn’t working, says Somali refugee who beat odds to become a barrister
Hashi Mohamed was raised exclusively on state benefits, and he believes open recruitment has made ‘little if any difference’
‘My teacher told me I was too soft to be a lawyer, now I’m a partner at a Knightsbridge firm’
Kevin Poulter tells us why his teacher's terse words encouraged him to pursue a career in law
First non-white Old Bailey judge was told to ‘try hairdressing instead’
Judge Anuja Ravindra Dhir QC also recalls being mistaken for a defendant when she was at the bar