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Burges Salmon sets up job site for Halliwells trainees

Fair enough! But what I want to know is who is going to do something about the hundreds of people out there who have being trying for years (have all the right grades etc) to get a Training Contract to no avail? Surely it would make sense that when you finish the LPC you can be a lawyer. Stop all this recruitment rubbish. Training Contracts tend to be a postcode lottery anyway - how rich was you family, could they buy you a good school, which buys you a good university etc. Give any person in Hackney and Peckham the life some of those Magic Circle lawyers have had and they would be working there as well. If the current batch of lawyers are so good how come not a single one saw the finantial crisis coming (for the sake of their own business at least)? Not a single City lawyer has any right to judge whether I am commercially aware or clever because when it came to the crunch (credit) they failed so miserably. Should they not have been advising that some of the deals the banks were doing were detrimental under Basel and FSMA? And then reported this to the FSA? If this was medicine most of the City lawyers would have been struck of for killing their patients.

2-Aug-2010

11:50 pm