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Time to ditch the LPC?

The legal services business model for the future appears to be a small number of partners and a small number of qualified lawyers overseeing compliant unqualified staff on humble pay. Candidates for "paralegal" jobs, which will significantly increase in number, with law degrees/equivalent and the LPC might be seen as over qualified and potential trouble makers. It is common knowledge that secretaries, many of whom with no academic qualification in any subject, have been doing fee earners jobs. Such people must have the ability to do the job but have not had to study many years developing their intellect.. Nevetheless secretaries and other unqualified staff will continue to be employed doing the job of a lawyer because they don't cost as must as a qualified lawyer. Perhaps fewer people should be studying the law and the LPC in its current format is probably out of date.

4-Aug-2009

3:46 pm