Major City law firms are funding the training of more than 20 aspiring solicitors this year through a landmark initiative to create the next generation of social welfare lawyers.
The Social Welfare Solicitors Qualification Fund (SWSQF), which is backed by 18 major law firms, has secured funding for its first cohort of social welfare legal workers to begin their journey to qualifying as solicitors via the Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE).
There are 22 social welfare legal workers in the first cohort, who were selected from a competitive pool of applicants to take BARBRI’s SQE preparation course.
The firms so far committed to the scheme are Allen & Overy, Ashurst, Addleshaw Goddard, Clifford Chance, Clyde & Co, Eversheds Sutherland, Freshfields, Latham & Watkins, Linklaters, Macfarlanes, Norton Rose Fulbright, Shoosmiths, Simmons & Simmons, Stephenson Harwood, Travers Smith, Trowers & Hamlin, Weil Gotshal & Manges, and White & Case. Also on board is the City of London Solicitors’ Company Charitable Fund.
Read the full Law Society Gazette article here.
Find out more information about the Fund here.
