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CoL: modified LPC should replace training contract

Training contracts/articles have always been a form of indentured bondage primarily designed to winnow out the less desirable candidates. How many occupations have a 2 year job interview? First, one had to pay to be trained, then a miserly salary was eventually instituted. And now a proper employee relationship ought to exist. If a lawyer is hired then it shouldn't be on a conditional basis of this length. I suspect that training is rather variable in many places and with that I wouldn't exclude the big firms. In principle the College of Law is right. It is time for law firms to move from the 19th century to the 21st. We'll let them skip the 20th. There is nothing extraordinary about law that marks it out for this kind of distinctive treatment.

28-Sep-2009

6:12 pm