Oxbridge first

Some 44% of partners at Magic and Silver Circle law firms attended Oxbridge, research into the backgrounds of 1,100 partners by legal recruiter Laurence Simons has found. A further 34% attended one of the 22 other Russell Group universities, with Bristol, Nottingham, Kings College London and Durham among non-Oxbridge universities best represented. Among the UK’s student population as a whole, only 1.8% of 2,266,075 students attend Oxford or Cambridge.