Quickie LPC for Linklaters Trainees
The boss of the magic circle has been doing some thinking and came up with this nifty proposition…
Linklaters has finally worked out what everyone already knew. If it takes your average law school student a year to deal with the LPC then a prospective Linklater should be able to do it in half the time (or just over).
Legal Week: Linklaters’ future trainees will see their Legal Practice Course (LPC) slashed from a year to just over seven months as part of a new-look course with the College of Law.
Supersmarts aside, here’s another good reason for the trimming…
The firm has also cut its maintenance grant from £7,000 to £5,000 to take account of the shortened course, which combines traditional classroom teaching alongside an online tutorial system that will see students studying online only for the first three weeks of the programme.
Actually it’s not just Linklaters’ who have decided to speed up their the law school process, a number of City firms have also adopted fastrack LPC programmes in conjunction with BPP. So how long before others twig that the LPC can be done in less time (and with less cost)?
