Social mobility Archives - Legal Cheek

A&O ramps up financial support for underprivileged aspiring lawyers

Six bursaries of £15k up for grabs

Aug 23 2021 9:32am
Linklaters and Oxford Uni join forces to mentor underprivileged sixth formers

Aspiring lawyers will be tutored by Wadham College bigwigs and receive TC application support from magic circle firm

Jun 29 2021 9:15am
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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

Apr 16 2021 9:32am
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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
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
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

Law firms dominate social mobility employer list

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

Nov 11 2020 12:09pm
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