The Gazette 1989

GAZETTE

JULY 1989

itself having too few trainees to meet future requirements. Assist- ant solicitors were difficult to get, especially in the country areas and their salaries had gone up. Forty per cent of the firms in Scotland take trainee solicitors (apprentices). In England and Wales a survey was impending on the structure of the profession. To help meet their recruitment crisis 700 extra places for law students were being started in the Polytechnics in September/ October 1989. The experience in Northern Ireland was that fewer law gradu- ates were going into the legal professions. There had been a drop from 145 to 120 in the number of

Manpower planning - training and trainees

applicants for places in the Institute of Professional Legal Studies in Belfast. The Society's delegates stated that in the Republic the unfavour- able demographic trend in the other jurisdictions was not repeated but that emigration of solicitors to England, especially to the South East of England, had meant a scarcity of assistant solicitors especially in country areas. It seemed likely that solicitors who had not previously taken apprentices might well have to do so in future on the basis of having to 'grow their own'. All jurisdictions recorded a growth in fee support for trainees by legal firms. •

Scotland had just completed a survey on the profession. The ten page questionnaire was sent to the senior partner in each firm with a personalised covering letter from the President and it elicited a 65% response rate. In previous years, up to 50 of the approximately 430 recipients of Diplomas in Legal Practice were unable to obtain training places and therefore unable to qualify as solicitors. In the current year it looked as if virtually all Diploma holders obtained training places. There was some drop in the number taking Diploma Courses and the Society might find

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