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Norton Rose hunts for Indian trainees

Indian lawyers First of all, anyone who says the LPC is easy can't have done it in the best places. The reason people do well is they're committed to a career in law or they've secured a training contract which they would forfeit should they not pass on first attempt. In my school, there was still a 16% failure rate, way higher than at most top UK universities. Secondly, I've had some exposure to Indian lawyers from a UK top 20 firm. Can't say I've been all that impressed. Supposedly final version contracts repeatedly came back with typos. Unacceptable when you pay £400/hour. I suspect the real reason they're coming over to the UK is because (1) the pay is way better than back home and (2) it's where the cutting-edge work is, and the legal system actually works, and with very low levels of corruption. It's no different than any other economic migrancy. As someone else put it, if Indian lawyers were so much better trained, why is it that, with its comparatively small demographics, UK firms dominate the global legal scene? Lastly, I would say to anyone working at NR - get out while you can. When a partner begins to utter such stupidities without being censured by the rest of the partnership, there's something very wrong going on in that firm...

23-Oct-2008

5:37 pm