Linklaters has become one of the first major UK law firms to publish comprehensive diversity data on its website, just days after the Legal Services Board (LSB) announced that it will make such reporting compulsory as of December 2012.
The figures appear to confirm a trend recently highlighted by Allen & Overy senior partner David Morley that social mobility in the UK has fallen over the last 30 years, with 53% of UK partners stating that they were part of the first generation in their immediate family to go to university, compared to 30% for the firm’s current crop of associates and just 22% of trainees.
