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These days if a young person expresses an interest in the law, my first question is, “What contacts does your family have?” .
That’s the first filter, even if you have got a First from a good Oxbridge college; your mater might have been an (employed) NHS chief executive, so money might not necessarily be tight, but unless you are a successful entrepreneur yourself, you are not likely to encourage your children down the risky self employed route.
Without those contacts, a youngster will be competing with the 80% of people also without those connections for the 20% of advertised roles, be they pupillages, training contracts or paralegal roles if you are risk averse enough to prefer the “apprentice “ route, starting at 18 with no debt; a lot of sensible young people from working class backgrounds do opt for it.
That is before we even start looking at personality type; the introverts who prefer the security of an employed role whether that be for work/life reasons or because they can’t schmooze clients, are simply not going to take the risk of self employment at all.
Those who want that security are going to go the solicitor route rather than risk the self employed Bar.
A good many local government lawyers, for example, are very introverted indeed.

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