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A work in progress

18 July 2013 / Jon Robins
Issue: 7569 / Categories: Features , Legal services , Training & education , Profession
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Jon Robins turns the spotlight on the conclusions & recommendations of the long awaited LETR

It’s been a long time coming but the much delayed final report of the Legal Education and Training Review (LETR) is finally out. Some six months after it was due and weighing in at around 350 pages, it is (as the chairman of the Legal Services Board David Edmonds has put it) “an important milestone, rather than the last word on the subject”.

Depending on where you sit in the legal services market, your concerns around the state of education and training of prospective lawyers will vary. You might be frustrated at how best to achieve greater diversity in a profession that remains too white, middle-class, and male to differing degrees in differing parts; you might be anxious about how you are going to pay your way through law school and how much debt you are going to have at the end of it; alternatively, you might well be vexed about the oversupply of graduates who

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