Given Legal Week‘s focus on senior lawyers working in the top international firms, the people we speak to on a daily basis have already enjoyed success in their careers. As such, it is sometimes easy to overlook the struggles of new entrants still trying to climb the ladder or even find their way onto the first rung.
Although the increased partner promotion rounds of recent weeks seem to demonstrate a return to confidence at many law firms, the sustained economic malaise has clearly had an impact on students’ aspirations.
