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• Application advice for prospective trainees

  Jan 30 2012 Here is a handy little article in the Guardian that advises prospective trainees on some of the questions they are likely to encounter in the application process for... more

• UK lawyers push to do away with training contracts

  Nov 23 2011 As US law firms grapple with the question of how to train lawyers when companies refuse to be billed by inexperienced associates, the profession in the UK is... more

• Could Acculaw change the way that lawyers are trained?

  Sep 30 2011 This article examines the implications of the entry onto the scene of Acculaw – a company that administers a low cost training program for law graduates and then... more

• Olswang outsources trainee program

  Sep 20 2011 Olswang is the very first firm to sign up to a pilot scheme run by Acculaw which takes care of recruitment of trainees. The scheme will train recruits for three... more

• Allens reduces trainee intake by 25%

  Jun 13 2011 RollOnFriday has reported that Allen & Overy has reduced its trainee intake by 25 per cent since the peak in 2008. In 2008 the firm took on 120 trainees a year,... more

• Lawyer oversupply: 16% drop in UK training contracts

  Apr 06 2011 The Law Society in the UK has reported a 16 per cent drop in the number of available training contracts last year, confirming the impresseion that there is an... more

• UK College of Law admits students with poor grades

  Mar 22 2011 The director of business development at the College of Law i the UK, Sarah Hutchinson, has said that 68.4 per cent of students earned a first or upper second class... more

• Best and worst NQ retention rates for UK firms

  Jan 24 2011 When firms miscalculate their staffing needs or wish to cut costs, it is often the newly qualified lawyers – those at the end of their trainee program – that suffer... more

• UK training contracts in decline

  Oct 29 2010 The total number of training contracts offered at the top 30 UK law firms has shrunk by 11 per cent in the last three years, according to survey results published by... more

• Emerging scandal in legal education

  Jul 13 2010 The Guardian reports on the ‘emerging scandal’ in legal education, which is churning out thousands of aspiring lawyers in the face of declining job prospects. The... more

• Simmons parks 25 trainees on new MBA programme

  Mar 05 2010 City firm Simmons & Simmons is putting 25 incoming trainees onto its MBA programme with BPP this September, with the firm moving to make the MBA a permanent option... more

• Law Society of England and Wales warns students off law

  Aug 18 2009 The Law Society has launched a campaign to warn those considering a legal career to think carefully before committing their time and money. It will draw attention... more

• Linklaters retains 80 per cent of its trainees

  Jul 16 2009 Linklaters has offered jobs to nearly 80 per cent of its trainees, the highest retention rate in the "magic circle" of UK law firms. According to The Lawyer,... more

• Allen & Overy to retain only 70% of trainees

  Mar 06 2009 Allen & Overy said it is likely to only hold on to 70% of its trainees qualifying in September 2009 and March 2010. In February, Allen & Overy layed off 247... more

• Norton Rose offers £10k for deferal of training contracts

  Feb 20 2009 Norton Rose offers trainees for 2009 and 2010 up to £10,000 to defer the start dates of their training contracts, writes legalweek. more

• UK law firms not cutting back on training contracts

  Jan 16 2009 Trainee numbers are likely to hold up at UK law firms. Many law firms were bitten in the last economic downturn when they found themselves short of lawyers as the... more

• International firms attract more Indian law graduates

  Oct 28 2008 A record 40 per cent of graduates at a leading Indian law school are now taking up training contracts with international law firms such as Linklaters and Clifford... more