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Laying the Foundations for Years to Come
Since 1993, the Legal Practice Course has stood as the gateway to the profession. It hasn’t materially changed since then, and there is still a near exclusive focus on technical legal skills. The current training fails to recognise not only the disruption that has taken place across the legal industry, but also wider societal forces such as health, well-being, diversity and inclusion.
Whilst the introduction of the Solicitors Qualifying Exam in 2021 has been heralded
as a new future, it has attracted enormous criticism from the profession which already considers new trainees ill-prepared and ill-equipped for a career in such a demanding profession.
We see the de-regulation of legal education as a wonderful opportunity to lead change in the education system, to re-imagine the formation of lawyers to better equip them and to foster a move to a more people-centric and customer-focussed curriculum.
We will work with law schools to support the increasingly de-regulated education system and develop programmes that incorporate the O Shaped 5 Os Mindset and 12 Attributes
An O Shaped Competency Framework
The O Shaped Competency Framework is built around the 5 O’s of Openness, Optimism, Opportunistic, Ownership and Originality and looks at the competencies for each the 12 O Shaped Attributes:Emotional IntelligenceTrust & InfluenceCommunicationCollaboration
Problem-SolvingIdentifying OpportunitiesSynthesisSimplifying ComplexityCourageResilienceFeedbackContinuous Learning
Exploring the Art of the Possible
We are currently working with legal educators and universities to explore what is possible. Together, we are imagining a world where we start with a blank sheet of paper to develop legal education programmes which put the needs of the next generation of legal professionals front and centre.