The aim of this study, the second survey of students conducted by Legal Week Intelligence, is to explore what makes the current generation of law students at the UK’s leading universities tick. What attracts them to the law and how does this affect their career choices? What ambitions do they have? How do they respond to law firms’ efforts to recruit them and what factors make them choose which firms to apply to and join? And, as a direct consequence of all the above, how can law firms give themselves an edge in the graduate recruitment market?
Law firms are increasingly looking for the perspective of trainees with degrees in other disciplines whose different way of looking at the world complements the ranks of those with qualifying law degrees. As a result, this year the study also surveys students with non-law degrees studying for the Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL), in order to examine where their motivations, ambitions and experiences differ from those of law students.
Through our arrangement with the Head of Law School, the report is based on 2422 law students from 18 of the UK’s leading ‘Russell Group’ universities (including Oxford, Cambridge, Bristol and Durham), as well as 390 students studying for the GDL at the College of Law.
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here to read the executive summary of the Law Student Survey 2008.
For further information on this report, please contact Des Cahill on 020 7316 9066 or email des.cahill@incisivemedia.com.
