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GAZETTE
JULY 1989
Manpower planning -
training and trainees
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
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
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.
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