Cork law school closes due to dramatic fall-off in students

THE number of law graduates training as solicitors has dropped by almost 40% in the last four years. Demand for university places on law courses has also fallen.

According to the Law Society Gazette, the newsletter for solicitors in Ireland, the number of people studying to become solicitors has fallen from 672 in 2006 to 414 in 2010, representing a drop of more than 38%.

Publication of the figures comes on foot of a decision by the Council of the Law Society to close its law school in Cork because of a dramatic fall-off in student numbers there.