{"id":1122,"date":"2010-03-22T22:06:57","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T22:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1122"},"modified":"2010-03-22T22:06:57","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T22:06:57","slug":"the-gulf-between-lpc-completers-and-training-contracts-widening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1122","title":{"rendered":"The gulf between LPC completers and training contracts widening"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img alignleft size-full wp-image-1485\" style=\"width:430px;\">\r\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Solicitors-Regulation-Authority1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Solicitors-Regulation-Authority1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"47\" \/><\/a>\r\n\t<div>Solicitors Regulation Authority<\/div>\r\n<\/div>The Law Society has launched a campaign to warn students to think twice about embarking on a career in law. The campaign targets university and secondary school \u00adstudents and contains information about the cost of legal training as well as the shrinking number of training contracts on offer.<\/p>\n<p>It is not uncommon for a graduate to apply for 50 jobs, but not been able to secure a training contract.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign from the Law Society warns students that you can\u2019t just swan into a legal job by getting a 2:1 degree and finishing the LPC.<\/p>\n<p>For almost a decade the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has been engaged in endless reviews to overhaul the route for qualifying as a solicitor. At one stage it even mooted the possibility of doing away with the training contract altogether.<\/p>\n<p>The LPC can total more than \u00a312,000.\u00a0 The minimum salary since 2009,\u00a0 for trainee solicitors  working in Central London is \u00a318,590 pa, for trainees working elsewhere  in England and Wales, it is \u00a316,650 pa.<\/p>\n<p>Details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sra.org.uk\/students\/training-contract.page\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solicitors Regulation Authority The Law Society has launched a campaign to warn students to think twice about embarking on a career in law. The campaign targets university and secondary school \u00adstudents and contains information about the cost of legal training as well as the shrinking number of training contracts on offer. It is not uncommon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1486,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions\/1486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}