Some legal statistics
- Over a 30 year period from 1979 to 2009, the number of solicitors with practising certificates has risen by well over 200%.
- Solicitors are employed in around 17,000 separate organisations.
- In 2008/09, taking into consideration disclosed ethnicity ethnic groups made up 11.4% of all solicitors.
- 45.2% of solicitors are now female, this figure doubling over the last 10 years.
- The pass rate in the LPC exams is around 75%.
- In 2009-10 there will be 11,370 full-time and 3,112 part-time places available. Of the combined number of some 14,500 there are an average level of under 6,000 training contracts available per annum.