Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½Law School's partnership with legal firm Macfarlanes won Best Social Mobility Strategy at the 2023 targetjobs National Graduate Recruitment Awards.
The Macfarlanes training scholarship is a unique programme developed within the firm and is designed to tackle any socio-economic barriers that discourage talented students from joining the legal profession.
Launched in October last year, the scholarship sees the firm support three Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½law students annually – known as Macfarlanes training scholars – through a fully-funded programme from the first year of their law degree onwards. The expectation is that the scholars will become trainees and then associates with the firm.
Head of Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½Law School Prof Arad Reisberg said: “The Macfarlanes’ training scholarship partnership has had a transformative impact on students in Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½Law School.”
“In particular, building on the School’s existing strengths in preparing a highly diverse strongly motivated student body for careers in the legal profession, the generosity of Macfarlanes’ means that Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½Law students will now be able to be even more successful.”
“In addition, since the introduction of the new partnership, I am witnessing the ‘Macfarlanes training scholarship impact', that is being approached by other law firms and external organisations to work with us on similar or complementing schemes.”
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