Just Over A Third Of Female Solicitors Aim To Make Partnership

Latest research figures show that just a third of female solicitors now plan on working towards becoming a partner at the law firm they work in. These statistics are quite shocking and show a great decline in the number of solicitors feeling motivated enough to attempt partnership.

It has been announced that only 38% of law firm partners now consider aiming to become a partner as their main career goal. This comes as a big decrease as 49% in 2009 and over 50% in 2008 stated becoming a partner as their main career goal.

The lack of determination needed to become a partner has been found in more female solicitors than male with only 29% admitting they do see becoming a partner as their ultimate career goal. 48% of men however state that it is their main ambition.

Partnerships in top law firms have become more and more difficult to obtain in recent times. The field of law is extremely popular, particularly with young graduates.

This new research is based upon a survey of around 3800 solicitors, and suggests that the view of solicitors are taking of partnerships is that they are becoming more and more unattainable and therefore fewer people are willing to attempt becoming one. Startling figures also show that just under a quarter of people also said they wished to leave private practice completely. The most common reason for this was that they wished to work in an in-house role instead. Around 11% were also thinking of changing career, this is a significant percentage really when you consider the amount of effort required to become a qualified solicitor.

Becoming a partner is a much more strenuous task than it was ten years ago and the stable environment of in- house positions seems to be tempting more and more solicitor’s away.

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