It is time to prioritise skills over background when it comes to the next generation of legal professionals, writes CILEX chair Chris Bones in this week’s NLJ
For too long now, the legal profession has placed outsized importance on a limited number of routes to qualification, thereby excluding thousands of potentially outstanding candidates. In order to ‘unleash all the talents at our disposal’, writes Bones, we must ‘sweep away barriers to opportunity in both educational access and routes to employment’.
An alternative option is on the way in the form of the new CILEX Professional Qualification (CPQ)— with no pre-requisites for certain qualifications or experience, it is open to anyone with the right talent and attitude.
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