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BSB study shows pupillage stereotypes persist

The problem with the profession is its becoming more and more far removed from business. The people selecting the future leaders of the profession naturally see "the best" candidates as those ticking the boxes they have chosen. Race and sex may be an issue but my experience of the UK legal profession as a whole is that those minorities chosen are chosen because they are the same as the white middle class males already running the profession not because they are from a different and bring actual diversity to the profession. This week, in Singapore, I was helping teach commercial managers from large Asian construction companies about Arbitration. For one section of the course we showed them a mock arbitration video with two famous QCs and an arbitrator who I did not know but was probably a barrister as well. The reaction of the Japanese and Koreans whose companies are actually doing a great deal of the work was why would we need people like this to solve our disputes. Bringing in people of a different colour skin or sex who are taught to act in a manner no different to their supervisor isn't making the profession more diverse its just just making people change..

3-May-2012

2:40 am