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Diversity still a distant dream

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The real issues are that law firms need lots of junior lawyers and far fewer partners and that by and large hourly billing is still prevalent and does not reward efficieny. Firms need a large proportion of lawyers to not progress to partnership and they have a large pool of people to draw on, so it is not worth the effort accommodating flexible working etc. For all the talk of wanting the best talent, the reality is that most lawyers are good enough to make partner, therefore you need to use other grounds to weed people out. Plus its about power and the ruling group are not going to give it up without a fight.

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12-Jul-2012

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10:17 am

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