Social mobility
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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
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14 law firms named on 2018 social mobility power list
Top 10 spots for Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner and Baker McKenzie
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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
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Hill Dickinson admits auctioning off work experience ‘had not been thought through’ as it pulls listing
Two-week placement had formed charity auction lot
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Privately-educated lawyers more likely to earn higher salaries
And by some margin
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‘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’
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City law firms dominate first ever social mobility employer index
MoJ and Inner Temple also recognised for their endeavours to help disadvantaged young people
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‘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
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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
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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’
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‘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
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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
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‘Pink Floyd’s manager tricked me into becoming a lawyer’
Why media law partner Mark Stephens has always felt like an outsider in his profession
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Plymouth High School for Girls pupils crowned Bar Mock Trial champions
Devon sixth formers emerge victorious in final presided over by Sir Brian Leveson
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One third of legal professionals believe their firm could do more to help disadvantaged young people
But charity-backed research shows finance faired far worse
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Posh solicitors pocket almost £7,000 more than ‘working class’ colleagues
Profession dominated by those from “advantaged backgrounds”, says government-backed report
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Students tackle hate crime, meat production and fake online reviews in social mobility charity’s Model Law Commission
They’re hot topics, but what do 16-year-olds make of them?
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How I landed a mini-pupilage speaking to a fishmonger at Sainsbury’s
From a Dalston supermarket to Doughty Street Chambers
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£1m funding boost opens up Sutton Trust social mobility programme to 14 and 15 year-olds
Nearly 2000 youngsters to benefit from Pathways to Law over next four years, but no corresponding hike in number of undergrad mentors