25/04/08 Legal practice course providers cashing in on unsuspecting law graduates? It has been announced today in the Law Society Gazette that the College of Law are opening a new branch in Manchester to compete with rivals BPP. If one assumes that the new college will host a further 200 to 300 new students it is surely yet another sign of the industry that has grown up around training potential solicitors and lawyers on a somewhat desperate audience or also quite captive. It has been considered for many years that a respectable career can be had in the legal profession and that students and graduates should strive towards qualification as a lawyer, whether solicitor or barrister. The reality is often very much different and that there are simply not enough jobs for trainee solicitors or for solicitors once they are qualified for there to be too many legal practice course graduates. One of the problems with this approach by the College of Law is that it almost gives off the picture tha...
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