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Time to ditch the LPC?

Catrin - couldn't agree more. I had various vacation scheme students sit in our group this summer, and with 1 hour of explanation, or a group lecture, none of them performed appreciably below the level of a 1st seat trainee. I look back on my own LPC and realise how little I learned there that I couldn't have learned just by working and looking at in-house memos etc. I think there may be some room for specialist course provision by the current LPC providers, but there is no need for an LPC. Of course, that would mean dealing directly with law firms as sophisticated consumers of services, which would end, one hopes, the predatory gouging of hopeful students and force the providers to actually add value.

4-Aug-2009

7:20 am