The shortage of foreign lawyers is an indisputable fact. In addition to domestic law firms and foreign-related legal departments of multinational corporations, the offices of foreign law firms in China have developed rapidly since 200 1 China joined the WTO. In just a few years, the number of foreign law firms in 103 countries and 28 law firms in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region has increased several times, and the established areas have also developed from large and medium-sized cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Tianjin, Shenzhen and Qingdao to the whole country.
The training system of western lawyers is completely different from that of China, and even the legal professionals in China seldom know the training methods of western lawyers, which further aggravates the long-term lack of vocational qualification training in this field! Britain is the representative of western lawyer internship system, and it is also one of the countries with the most perfect legal system in Europe and America. The advantage of British lawyer training compared with the United States is that its lawyer internship system ensures the practicability of lawyer training! On 20 1 1 year, the overseas judicial system investigation group organized by the Ministry of Justice of China specially inspected the British judicial education system represented by BPP. In 20 12, the British Law Association specially appointed BPP University to train nine foreign lawyers for China through the barrister training program (BCTS).
As the largest and most influential professional training institution for lawyers in Britain, BPP University opened its professional lawyer training system to China for the first time to meet the urgent needs of the increasingly internationalized global economy and law. I hope that China students who are full of confidence in the high-end foreign-related lawyer industry in the future will seize this rare opportunity for career development!