Press Release
Routledge Modise Law School candidate attorneys achieve top marks
7 April 2009
The Law Society of South Africa has released its national statistics for the August 2008 board exam. The Routledge Modise Law School exceeded the national average by far.
The overall pass rates for the Law Society of the Northern Provinces were as follows (the Routledge Modise Law School results are in brackets):
Paper 1: 71% (90%)
Paper 2: 73% (90%)
Paper 3: 61% (90%)
Paper 4: 61% (80%)
2008 saw the launch of the Routledge Modise Law School. The first year, which was in essence a pilot phase, was only open to the firm’s own candidate attorneys.
Terry Mahon, chairman of Routledge Modise in association with Eversheds, says: “We are pleased that our students achieved such phenomenal results. This shows that our decision to open our own law school was spot-on. Not only have we secured excellent lecturers, the convenience of having these lectures in-house has given our own candidate attorneys a definite advantage.”
Says Nicky Sher, who heads up the Routledge Modise Law School: “This year the school opened its doors to external candidate attorneys, including five bursary recipients from historically disadvantaged backgrounds, and we hope that they will achieve the same extraordinary results in their studies this year, which will open many doors to them.”
Routledge Modise in association with Eversheds is the first firm to present an accredited course in-house, not only to internal but also to external candidates and bursary recipients.
Nic Swart, director of LEAD, congratulated the school on the excellent results and said: “The Law Society of South Africa welcomes Routledge Modise’s initiative. Not only is it obviously a well-planned intervention, the firm has opened the door to candidate attorneys from outside the firm to benefit from the training. We value our association with the new school. It will certainly alleviate the pressure on LEAD to create sufficient opportunities at existing courses in the Johannesburg area.”