Law firms have further to go than in-house teams when it comes to cracking the issue of social mobility in the legal profession, according to Hogan Lovells chair Nicholas Cheffings. 

Cheffings, who has taken over leadership of the PRIME work experience initiative, was speaking as part of a recent Legal Week roundtable on social mobility, in which leading players in the diversity movement discussed the issues that still need to be dealt with by the profession.

In it, he discusses the fact private practice firms have a bigger challenge in attracting more diverse candidates – in part because there may be less awareness of them and what they do.