London lawyers – who needs them? Although the legal trade press and the rest of the media tend to focus on the legal world in the City, there are reckoned to be 2,500 vacancies annually for trainee lawyers outside London and the South East. As Bob White, of Nottingham Law School, says: “There is a lot of leading work done in the regions, including by national firms with big offices in places such as Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Nottingham.”
The up-and-coming specialist fields are employment law (reinforced by a range of antidiscrimination legislation), intellectual property (as more clients assert and defend their rights), leisure and licensing (in response to new gaming legislation) and social housing (if government house-building plans are realised). Insolvency work is sure