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1. Legal education and the legal services
market
Professor Julian Webb
UKCLE

2. The future of the legal profession?

3. Market threats (and opportunities)
• Legal services market is still economically vulnerable
• Shift in balance between admitted/non-admitted staff
(leveraging ratios)
• New forms of business practice (MDPs/external ownership) –
major implications for practice structures and organisation
• Commoditisation and automation of high volume work
• Growth in legal process outsourcing – Indian LPO market
estimated to be worth US$640M by end of 2010
Acknowledging that the Scottish market may be less
segmented/less commoditised than E&W, but....

4. What’s happening in legal education?
• ± 60% of law graduates not entering practice, though
about 70% of our entrants want to (but with a limited
conception of what that means)
• Traineeship bottleneck
• Concerns about access and diversity
• Relatively light touch regulation of the academic
stage
• Greater distance between academic and professional
priorities?

5. Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2010, s.1
For the purposes of this Act, the regulatory objectives are the objectives of—
(a) supporting—
(i) the constitutional principle of the rule of law,
(ii) the interests of justice,
(b) protecting and promoting—
(i) the interests of consumers,
(ii) the public interest generally,
(c) promoting—
(i) access to justice,
(ii) competition in the provision of legal services,
(d) promoting an independent, strong, varied and effective legal profession,
(e) encouraging equal opportunities (as defined in Section L2 of Part II of Schedule
5 to the Scotland Act 1998) within the legal profession,
(f) promoting and maintaining adherence to the professional principles

6. Pressure points in England and Wales
• New regulatory bodies (BSB, SRA, LSB) taking an interest in
(the quality of) legal education
• Company law and ethics [in context of outcomes-based
regulation] as new foundation subjects???
• Employability – work placements, business skills and
commercial awareness at a premium?
• Reforms to vocational training – aptitude (admission) tests and
a return to (some) external assessment?
• More structured work-based learning
• All in the context of the REF, reduced state funding and the
Browne review of student fees!

7. Challenges and opportunities in developing
legal education
• Building the continuum between stages of education in terms of
methods as well as knowledge
• Flexibility vs fragmentation
• Ensuring trainees are sufficiently stretched at the vocational
(PEAT 1) stage
• Employability for what (and market differentiation)?
• Tension between achieving current competences, and
developing future capability? Implications for methods of L,T&A
– preparing students to deal with uncertainty
– developing reflective ethical ‘practitioners’
– making the experience of legal education transformational
• Taking CPD seriously