Thinking of a legal career? Better get into Oxbridge...

http://www.suttontrust.com/reports/Comparison_educational_backgrounds.pdf

Unbelievable stats regarding how dominated the legal professions is not only by independently educated people, but to an even larger extent by Oxbridge graduates. 82% of barristers at the the top firms and 81% of judges are Oxbridge educated.

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JHutcher

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H&E

http://www.suttontrust.com/reports/Comparison_educational_backgrounds.pdf

Unbelievable stats regarding how dominated the legal professions is not only by independently educated people, but to an even larger extent by Oxbridge graduates. 82% of barristers at the the top firms and 81% of judges are Oxbridge educated.

notes that not all have law degrees from those universities :wink:

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Comp_Genius

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but they still went to oxbridge :wink:

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emily87

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http://www.suttontrust.com/reports/Comparison_educational_backgrounds.pdf

Unbelievable stats regarding how dominated the legal professions is not only by independently educated people, but to an even larger extent by Oxbridge graduates. 82% of barristers at the the top firms and 81% of judges are Oxbridge educated.

barristers at chambers, solicitors at firms, not that it matters :p:

But we know it always used to be dominated by oxbridge, what matters I think is what the new intake each year is now. Had a quick look at that doc, does it really say that the proportion of barristers from oxbridge hasn't changed since 1989?? That is surprising, I would have expected it to go down. What I'd be more interested to see is the educational backgrounds of barristers 1-5 years call, 6-10 years, 10-20 etc, I think that might be more useful, after all, with 40+ and 39 and under you can't see what the proportions are like in the young barristers who started in the last 5 years, and change in the proportion there (which tbh I'd expect) is surely going to be masked by putting them in a big group that covers a longer time period?

Perhaps I should read the study properly before I criticize the Sutton Trust's methods, still, I'm sure I wouldn't have grouped the data like that, you could find out a lot more if you used more groups or used years since call instead of age (after all, some people start at a later age after doing something else).

Emily

Thinking of a legal career? Better get into Oxbridge...

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