Source: Today’s Wills & Probate
New research has found that more than half of law firms could miss out on 96% of talent entering the legal sector – if they don’t consider all university backgrounds.
A study in April revealed that just over half of hiring managers within law firms would only consider graduates from the “top eight” universities – cited as Oxford, St Andrew’s, Cambridge, LSE, Imperial College London, Durham University, UCL and the University of Bath.
Yet further analysis from Access Legal, has found that only 4% of students studying law degrees in 2022 studied at the top eight universities. More than 140 thousand students studied law in 2022, with just 5,975 studying at the top 8 unis…
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