Programmes such as
the legal apprenticeship scheme will help but only if fully supported by the legal profession.
Not exact matches
Last month the Department for Business Innovation and Skills published guidance for its Trailblazer
apprenticeship in law
scheme, which will offer an alternative route into the profession for apprentices who will be able to qualify as chartered
legal executives, solicitors or paralegals.
The firm has told
Legal Week it would allow its current apprentices on a legal executive apprenticeship scheme to transition onto the proposed Trailblazer legal apprenticeship with the option to become a qualified solicitor, paralegal or legal execu
Legal Week it would allow its current apprentices on a
legal executive apprenticeship scheme to transition onto the proposed Trailblazer legal apprenticeship with the option to become a qualified solicitor, paralegal or legal execu
legal executive
apprenticeship scheme to transition onto the proposed Trailblazer
legal apprenticeship with the option to become a qualified solicitor, paralegal or legal execu
legal apprenticeship with the option to become a qualified solicitor, paralegal or
legal execu
legal executive.
With law firm efforts to boost diversity failing to make a big enough impact on the profession, Frances Ivens asks whether a new solicitor
apprenticeship scheme — which could allow those without degrees to qualify as solicitors — has the potential to transform the route to
legal qualification
Applying for training contracts,
legal apprenticeships, vacation
schemes or mini pupillage?
Ultimately, the
Apprenticeship Levy creates a fantastic opportunity for the
legal sector to create new entry level routes into the profession, beyond just graduate
schemes.
The much - anticipated
Legal Education Training Review (LETR) has proposed keeping traineeships and pupillages but giving more support to the development of less traditional routes such as non-graduate
apprenticeships and licensed paralegal
schemes.
Law
apprenticeships exist in the form of government - backed, employer - designed «trailblazer»
schemes, which cater for apprentices working towards three broad levels:
legal administration / support, paralegal or solicitor.