Effective and fair conflicts rule must strike an appropriate balance between conflicting values: the high repute of the legal profession and the administration of justice, and the values of allowing the client's choice of counsel and permitting reasonable
mobility in the legal profession.
Social
mobility in the legal profession, commissioned by the legal communications specialist Byfield Consultancy, draws on interviews with lawyers at all stages of their careers from those starting out such as Subashini Nathan, presently a paralegal for a legal aid firm, through to Lady Justice Hallett, the fifth woman to sit as an Appeal judge.
In this Legal Week video, deputy editor Charlotte Edmond talks to ITV director of legal affairs and third - party sales Barry Matthews, Hogan Lovells chair Nicholas Cheffings, head of Aspiring Solicitors Chris White and future Nabarro trainee Jay Whiting, about the future of social
mobility in the legal profession.
He acknowledged that stereotypes of Asian model minorities as smart, nerdy, not risk takers, not interested in leadership and boring as assumptions that have hurt Asians in upward
mobility in the legal profession.
Law firms have further to go than in - house teams when it comes to cracking the issue of social
mobility in the legal profession, according to Hogan Lovells chair Nicholas Cheffings.
A majority (52 %) of senior figures in the legal industry polled by YouGov said that improving social
mobility in the legal profession would be beneficial to their firm, while 71 % acknowledged the benefit to society as a whole.
According to the survey, 52 % of the «senior figures in the legal industry» polled said that improving social
mobility in the legal profession would be beneficial to their firm.
A fair conflicts rule must balance the conflicting values of preserving the high repute of the legal profession and the administration of justice against the values of allowing the client's choice of counsel and permitting reasonable
mobility in the legal profession.
There is an increasing trend towards
mobility in the legal profession.
Not exact matches
In our view the minimum salary provides an important safeguard that protects against exploitation and contributes to social
mobility and diversity within the
legal profession.
The
legal aid system should encourage social
mobility and diversity
in the
legal profession; and
legal ethics expert Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr., like Hackett, predicts the
profession will pay more attention to lawyer
mobility and conflicts issues involving
in - house lawyers.
The
legal profession has turned
in a respectable performance
in the UK's first - ever Social
Mobility Employer Index.
There are many moving parts to the
legal profession, and the tectonic plates are always
in danger of shifting — as illustrated, for example, by Quebec's recent decision to withdraw from the
mobility scheme after having belonged only for a few years.
In his 2012 report «Fair Access to Professional Careers» writing on the subject of social
mobility within the
legal profession, Alan Milburn noted that significant progress had been made but that:
Without question, one of the greatest accomplishments of the Canadian
legal profession in modern times was the conclusion of the National
Mobility Agreements.
In a video interview with Legal Week, in which he discusses everything from globalisation to social mobility and the impact of technology on the profession, Morley is candid about progress to date in the U
In a video interview with
Legal Week,
in which he discusses everything from globalisation to social mobility and the impact of technology on the profession, Morley is candid about progress to date in the U
in which he discusses everything from globalisation to social
mobility and the impact of technology on the
profession, Morley is candid about progress to date
in the U
in the US.
Clifford Chance (CC) has backed a study proposing a set of new social
mobility initiatives for graduate recruitment
in the
legal profession, including a new university ranking system.
Cheffings, who has taken over leadership of the PRIME work experience initiative, was speaking as part of a recent
Legal Week roundtable on social
mobility,
in which leading players
in the diversity movement discussed the issues that still need to be dealt with by the
profession.
When it came to explaining why there was a social
mobility problem
in the
legal profession, respondents who think something is preventing candidates from disadvantaged backgrounds from getting law training contracts revealed that a large barrier is their presentation at interview — respondents allocated almost a quarter (23 %) of their votes to this.
As a result of national
mobility, Canada's law societies have worked with the Federation to adopt consistent rules and practices to ensure that the public is served by members of the
legal profession who are held to the same high level of competence and ethics, wherever they practice
in Canada.
As
in the U.S., the British have recognized racial, ethnic, and gender disparities
in the
legal profession and have pursued strategies for greater diversity and upward
mobility in the bar and bench.
Notably, stagnant
mobility in the U.K.
legal profession does not appear to be the result of active resistance to the proposition that more diversity is beneficial.
«Never before
in the history of this country has the
legal profession seen
mobility to this extent.
Beginning
in the late 1990s, the
legal profession also began to address the issue of interprovincial
mobility through a series of
mobility agreements entered into between provincial and territorial law societies.
In a preview to its forthcoming business plan for its first year in operation, the Board said it would «broker constructive working relationships between the profession, its regulators and the providers of legal education; and ensure that diversity and social mobility issues» are at the heart of its wor
In a preview to its forthcoming business plan for its first year
in operation, the Board said it would «broker constructive working relationships between the profession, its regulators and the providers of legal education; and ensure that diversity and social mobility issues» are at the heart of its wor
in operation, the Board said it would «broker constructive working relationships between the
profession, its regulators and the providers of
legal education; and ensure that diversity and social
mobility issues» are at the heart of its work.