Minority students still hindered at top firms

Ethnic minority and female students are still struggling to make their way into the UK’s top law firms, comprehensive new research has found, despite attempts by commercial practices to tackle diversity. The annual Legal Week Intelligence Law Student Survey has found that while 25% of Legal Practice Course (LPC) students are from ethnic minorities, just 18% of training contracts are being taken by those from ethnic minority backgrounds. The research also suggests that the success of candidates from UK-based ethnic minorities may be even worse as increasing numbers of commercial firms’ ethnic minority lawyers are recruited from India, China and Southeast Asia.

Minority students still hindered at top firms legalweek.com Wed, Mar 5, 2008