Former Taylor Wessing trainee Natalie Salunke questions the recent proposals to do away with training contracts

Under the College of Law’s proposal to scrap training contracts, law students would be able to call themselves ‘solicitors’ directly after completion of the Legal Practice Course (LPC) – something which I can see appealing to plenty of people. What is worrying, though, is where this would leave LPC finishers in terms of their development and the quality of service they would be able to provide to clients.

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