The future of advocacy / Sir Stephen Sedley -- Law students -- getting in and getting on / Philip A. Thomas and Alison Rees -- All dressed up and nowhere to go? Part time law students and the legal profession / Andrew M. Francis and Iain W. McDonald -- Women in the law school -- shoals of fish, starfish, or fish out of water? / Fiona Cownie -- Young, gifted and blocked! Entry to the solicitors' profession / Michael Shiner -- Hearing Black and Asian voices -- an exploration of identity / Sumitra Vignaendra, Marcia Williams, and Jerry Garvey -- Professionalism, discrimination, difference, and choice in women's experience in law jobs / Peter Sanderson and Hilary Sommerland -- "Up or out" -- means or ends? Staff retention in large firms / Robert G. Lee -- Little justice -- judicial reform and the magistrates / Luke Clements -- Promoting diversity in the judiciary -- reforming the judicial appointments process / Kate Malleson.