Last week, Sweet & Maxwell gave law firm recruiters a chilling glimpse into where they have been going wrong with the findings of a survey asking law students their views on a number of hard-hitting issues, such as how much they expect to earn throughout their career and exactly which TV shows misled them into thinking it might be fun to become a lawyer in the first place.
Headline results include the revelation that more than half (53%) of the UK’s law students don’t fancy putting
in a 50-hour working week – a relatively doable 9am-7pm day, as one legalweek.com poster points out – and that just 5% would work whatever hours were necessary to succeed. No need to apply to those US firms in London, then.
