At Queen Mary University of London, our “2030 Strategy” challenges us to ensure that our people engage locally, nationally and internationally to create a better world, and that we open opportunity for our students by building the knowledge and skill-sets relevant to the challenges of today and tomorrow.
To support this ambition, one goal in the Hub for Professional Practice, within the School of Law, is to support our students in building skill-sets which will make them ready for tomorrow’s world of legal practice – with two of the Hub’s core values being to build skills in the next generation of legal practitioners which are “relevant”, by our Hub being “connected” with industry.
In working towards this goal, an important first question to ask is: what are the skill-sets of tomorrow’s legal world? A huge amount of research has been carried out on this topic, as legal practice, and legal sector jobs, change rapidly. Deregulation, leading to the appearance of new types of legal employers, the use of technology in legal service delivery, changing client demands, different ways of (hybrid) working, and the demands of the practitioners themselves seeking different types of careers, are all changing the landscape of legal practice.
See our thinking created with industry colleagues on key Skills for the future of legal practice.