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Drop out rate for Barristers

  • 26-05-2008 2:55pm
    #1
    Tim Robbins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,011 ✭✭✭


    Hi,
    Anybody know what the drop out rate for Barristers is?

    How about number of people who have qualified through King's Inn / Number of Barristers practising?

    Regards


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  • #2
    ronnie3585
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,675 ✭✭✭ronnie3585


    I would think the attrition rate is quite high. A mate of was Deviling last year said that there is a statistic floating around that approx 40% of newly qualified barristers are earning less than €8k pa from their profession. Don't know how reliable this stat is but the guy I got it from is not a bullsh*tter.


  • #3
    2rs
    Registered Users Posts: 83 ✭✭2rs


    I wouldn't call it either a drop out rate or attrition.

    I know a number of barristers and trainee barristers who have done or are doing the Kings Inns course with the intention of never practicing and of going into an in-house counsel type role.

    As for the number of qualified barristers that Kings Inns produces each year, I would say the number who do not go down to practice in the courts is around 20%. I just got that figure from people I know and what they have told me they are doing or have done with their qualification.

    There is no doubt also that you can add to that figure a number of people who take up practice only to decide, whether due to their financial circumstances or otherwise, to quit as a practicing barrister and go into some other area.


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