30 November 2020Influential Women in IPMuireann Bolger

Legal sector’s social mobility challenge laid bare in report

Lawyers are still “disproportionately likely” to come from privileged backgrounds, with three times as many (21%) having attended fee-paying schools than the national UK average (7%), a new report has revealed.

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