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Opinion: Firms shouldn’t just talk the talk on ‘class’ diversity

Undoubtedly the best must get the job but the problem with the English Law firms is that they equate the best not on on their qualifications, skills or achievements but on their backgrounds-preferrably white, high class and from good university and European. Law firms in England have been lobbying hard for openning the legal sectors elsewehere but in their own turf they are excessively restrictive in terms of recruitment and selection from non-European backgrounds. Law firms in London are not global law firms they are very much local law firms with very narrow outlook for recruitment, selcting candidates mostly from UK, sparingly from EU and rarely from non-Eu territories (which is also resticted to Australian and Canadian lawyers-white lawyers) and hardly from other commonwealth countries. Why do these law firsm with such narrow contricted mentalities strive and aspire and seek the legal sectors in the developing economies to open up? Typical British double standards

13-Jan-2011

1:59 pm