Legal business events: Education costs

This year at legal business events a key topic will be how we find the legal stars of tomorrow.

A recent debate on the future of legal education at the Inner Temple raised concerns over the rising cost of law studies and the lack of funding options.

The main concern appears to be an oversupply of law students to the sector. Panellists at the debate were particularly worried about the barrister’s profession, with only one in four students securing pupillage.

As a result the former Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer has recommended that places on the Bar training programme should be cut.

Yet law firms are also being encouraged to develop better links with schools in order to improve diversity, as the profession is still generally viewed as elitist.

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