Law firms and barristers’ chambers could be required to publish details of the academic backgrounds of trainees and new recruits under fresh Government guidelines designed to encourage diversity in the legal profession, it was announced yesterday (4 December).
The recommendation results from the findings of a working party set up last year by the Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA) in response to a report on diversity by the Legal Services Consultative Panel which highlighted barriers to the profession including gender and ethnicity.
