Wig or without? - Time for change; Public call for legal modernisation.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-1 October 2004-LEXIS-NEXIS: Wig or without? - Time for change; Public call for legal modernisation(C)1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:10042004 London - Old fashioned, conservative and dominated by old men is how the majority of the UK views the legal profession. The public are now calling for drastic modernisation and more employee diversity to take the profession into the 21st century.

In a recent independent poll commissioned by LexisNexis, the provider of legal, news and business information, the legal profession came second lowest only to insurance when people were asked to rank a number of professions based on how modern and forward thinking they are. Medicine and education came out top. The research reveals that three out of four...