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This column occasionally quotes Yes Minister, with the excuse that the now antique sitcom is more educational than any politics degree. In The Writing on the Wall, mandarin perm sec Sir Humphrey Appleby advises Jim Hacker of one crackpot policy: ‘Minister, if you are going to do this damn silly thing, don’t do it in this damn silly way.’
Co-operative Legal Services has sought to distance itself from comments reportedly made by its sales and marketing director suggesting that putting the customer first is ‘an alien approach’ for solicitors.
Reporting the launch of the Co-op Legal Services’s multi-million-pound TV and radio advertising campaign, Marketing Week quoted sales and marketing director Ian Mackie as saying: ‘It’s a natural thing for the Co-op to put the customer at the heart of our plans. For a solicitor it’s an alien approach.’
by Mark Stobbs, director of legal policy at the Law Society
We should be pleased with the report card handed to the legal profession last week in addressing obstacles to entry for people from underprivileged backgrounds by the government’s independent reviewer on social mobility, Alan Milburn.
Holes will be picked by some lawyers in Alan Milburn’s ‘progress report’ on social mobility and the professions, published today – even though he was nicer about lawyers than other professionals. As was argued with his previous findings, critics will point out that law firms cannot use their selection policy to fix, at point of entry, all the wider woes of the UK’s unequal education system.
A great deal is written and said about divisions in the legal profession – on the results of increased specialisation, the disparities in rewards, and the questions of public policy that generate discord.
While such differences are real and worthy of note, this week’s London Legal Walk showed that the legal profession is still capable of coming together as a community – mixing collective endeavour with a celebration. The Gazette was proud to be the event’s media sponsor.
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