Social mobility Archives - Legal Cheek

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

6 days ago
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Magic circle trainee’s mentoring programme secures first law school sign-up

GROW mentoring partners with Coventry Uni to pair students with lawyers

Mar 3 2021 10:21am
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Freshfields targets social mobility ‘cold spots’ with sixth form mentoring scheme

Teens eligible for paid internships at magic circle firm

Feb 11 2021 10:55am
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Legal profession making ‘significant progress’ on diversity — but top roles remain a problem

Lawyers disproportionately likely to come from privileged backgrounds, report finds

Nov 27 2020 9:47am
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Law firms dominate social mobility employer list

Top ten spots for BCLP, Browne Jacobson, HSF and Bakers

Nov 11 2020 12:09pm
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Legal sector dominates social mobility power list

Top ten spots for Baker McKenzie, Linklaters and BCLP

Oct 9 2019 8:44am

Linklaters launches new ‘virtual reality’ legal internship

The digital internship is designed to improve social mobility

Jun 13 2019 3:33pm
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

Sep 14 2018 1:15pm
14 law firms named on 2018 social mobility power list

Top 10 spots for Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner and Baker McKenzie

Jul 12 2018 8:43am
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

Feb 28 2018 9:18am
Hill Dickinson admits auctioning off work experience ‘had not been thought through’ as it pulls listing

Two-week placement had formed charity auction lot

Feb 16 2018 11:33am
Privately-educated lawyers more likely to earn higher salaries

And by some margin

Feb 15 2018 12:51pm

‘Redouble your efforts’: Top social mobility charity calls for more action after new stats reveal privately-educated barristers still dominate

Training costs a big barrier

Jan 30 2018 10:16am
‘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’

Aug 8 2017 1:23pm
City law firms dominate first ever social mobility employer index

MoJ and Inner Temple also recognised for their endeavours to help disadvantaged young people

Jun 21 2017 12:18pm
‘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

Jun 6 2017 9:05am
Serious crime silk John Cooper admits he was bullied at the bar because of his working class background

More fuel, more fire

May 3 2017 10:25am
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

Apr 26 2017 11:05am

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’

Apr 18 2017 12:13pm
‘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

Apr 18 2017 9:12am
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

Apr 10 2017 10:29am