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SRA gets a roasting as deferrals leave students out in the cold

To Anonymous at 5.09pm, Clearly it makes no business sense to pay wages for workers where there is insufficient work and this situation inevitably makes for poor training from the trainee's perspective. However, when the flawed legal business model advocates recruiting trainee personnel blind to future economic conditions; given that these contracts are like gold dust, law firms owe a moral duty to accommodate fledgling solicitors who hardly cause costs diarrhoea. It makes good business sense to have sufficient numbers when business picks up. It makes bad business sense to damage PR and restrict the future talent recruitment pool by scrapping TC's. If the ridiculous two-year recruitment system was replaced with a more responsive nine-month, University-style recruitment system, then numbers could be regulated properly and this scenario could be avoided.

20-Apr-2009

6:25 pm