Subjects:

Professional Conduct and Ethics

Contents:

The Future of Advocacy

Law Students - Getting in and Getting On

All Dressed up and Nowhere to go? Part Time Law Students and the Legal Profession

Women in the Law School - Shoals of Fish, Starfish or Fish out of Water?

Young, Gifted and Blocked! Entry to the Solicitors' Profession

Hearing Black and Asian Voices - An Exploration of Identity

Professionalism, Discrimination, Difference and Choice in Women's Experience in Law Jobs

'Up or Out' - Means or Ends? Staff Retention in Large Firms

Little Justice - Judicial Reform and the Magistrates

Promoting Diversity in the Judiciary - Reforming the Judicial Appointments Process.

Whilst the Legal Profession as well as Parliament have established rules, procedures, legislation, codes of practice and institutions to promote or guarantee open access to membership of the legal profession, nevertheless, discrimination exists. Ethnicity, gender, class, age and university continue to be factors in terms of recruitment into and success within the profession. The authors of the book, all of whom are specialists in their respective fields, have identified various stages in a lawyer's career. The analysis starts with entry into university and finishes with a review of the most senior lawyers. At the various stages, formal and informal barriers are identified and their consequences spelt out. Many of the authors include original data and the findings of their own survey work to support their conclusions.