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Feb 06 2019
Allen & Overy has announced its latest trainee retention rates for the firm’s spring 2019 round. Out of 47 trainees, 43 applied for roles with the firm. A&O extended...
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Jan 24 2019
Slaughter and May has revealed its retention results for sprint 2019. The firm has kept on 97 per cent of its qualifiers, with 34 of 35 remaining with the firm. This...
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Sep 13 2018
Autumn retention has been announced by Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP) and Fieldfisher.
BCLP has retained 15 (79 per cent) of the firm’s 19 qualifying trainees....
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Sep 10 2018
Linklaters and Norton Rose Fulbright have announced their retention figures for this autumn’s retention round.
Linklaters had 59 trainees who qualified for...
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Aug 28 2018
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has posted in autumn 2018 retention, bouncing back from its previous two rounds with an 83% rate.
The firm offered newly qualified...
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Aug 24 2018
Baker McKenzie has released its autumn 2018 retention rates, keeping 100% of its trainees.
The newly qualified lawyers will be fairly evenly spread between the...
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Aug 17 2018
Allen & Overy has released its autumn 2018 retention rate, while simultaneously announcing an increase in salary for trainees and newly qualified lawyers.
Of the 46...
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Aug 08 2018
White & Case has posted an 84% retention rate in its autumn batch of trainees.
Keeping on 21 of the 25 trainees, White & Case has kept on par with its recent...
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Aug 03 2018
Taylor Wessing has raised its salary for newly qualified solicitors (NQ) by the greatest margin since 2008.
The firm has increased pay to NQs from £63,000 to...
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Jul 19 2018
Clifford Chance has become the first magic circle law firm to release its autumn 2018 retention results.
Of the 47 trainees that were in its autumn cohort, 44...
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Jun 19 2018
Mayer Brown has retained eight of its 10 trainees in its September 2018 round, with no fixed term contracts.
The eight lawyers offered positions all accepted them....
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Aug 23 2017
Eversheds Sutherland and Hogan Lovells have announced their trainee retention rates for autumn, with both firms keeping on 80 per cent of trainees.
Eversheds had a...
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Aug 22 2017
White & Case has announced an autumn retention rate of 83 per cent for its London trainee cohort.
Out of 18 trainees, the firm offered positions to 15, all of whom...
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Aug 21 2017
Several Magic Circle firms have posted their autumn trainee retention figures, including Linklaters, Macfarlanes, Ince & Co, and Gowlings.
Linklaters has retained...
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Aug 18 2017
Linklaters has announced retention results for its autumn round, with 84 per cent of trainees slated to stay on with the firm.
This round included a total of 56...
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Aug 16 2017
Stewarts Law has announced its autumn trainee retention results, which are the lowest of all firms reporting results thus far this year. The firm posted a 25 per cent...
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Aug 11 2017
Freshfields has reported this year’s autumn trainee retention rate, which came in at 66 per cent. Out of 41 qualifiers, the firm made offers to 29, of which 27 have...
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Aug 11 2017
Latham & Watkins and Kirkland & Ellis have revealed their autumn trainee retention rates, as Magic Circle firms begin to report their retention numbers.
Latham will...
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Aug 08 2017
Allen & Overy has announced its retention results for autumn 2017, revealing a retention rate of 85 per cent. Out of 47 final seat trainees, 41 received offers, and 40...
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Jul 28 2017
Kirkland & Ellis has announced that the firm will retain just 50 per cent of its London-based trainees for this year’s autumn round.
The firm, which currently takes...
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Jul 27 2017
Watson, Farley & Williams has announced that the firm will retain its entire group of autumn 2017 qualifying trainees. The group included 15 trainees who will join a...
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Jul 23 2017
London-based RPC has revealed its autumn trainee retention rate, which came in at 82%. The figure represents a 15% increase over last year’s retention rate.
Of the...
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Jul 14 2017
Slaughter and May has announced that the firm will retain 91 per cent of its qualifying trainees during this year’s September qualification round. The firm made offers...
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Mar 14 2017
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has revealed a spring retention rate of 84 per cent, reporting that 31 of 37 trainees will stay on as newly-qualified lawyers. The firm...
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Mar 01 2017
Trainee retention rates have been posted by several firms, including Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF), Hogan Lovells, and Macfarlanes.
HSF has retained 77 per cent of...
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Feb 22 2017
Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) will keep eleven of its 20 trainees in newly qualified (NQ) positions this spring. The firm’s 55 per cent retention rate is lower than...
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Feb 14 2017
Clifford Chance has posted its lowest retention rate in more than seven years. The firm had a cohort of 46 trainees, of which 33 received offers out of 43 who applied....
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Dec 21 2016
Slaughter and May has announced that the firm will retain 100 per cent of its trainees who are eligible to qualify in March 2017. The firm made offers to all 25 of its...
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Oct 01 2016
Slaughter and May has reported autumn trainee retention of 89%, landing the firm in the middle of Magic Circle retention rates. The firm had 36 trainees, of which 32...
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Sep 13 2016
Reed Smith has reported that it will retain eight of 12 qualifiers this autumn, with retention coming in at 67 per cent. All eight of the newly qualified roles are...
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Sep 10 2016
Simmons & Simmons has reported 50 per cent retention of qualifying trainees this autumn, demonstrating inconsistent retention at the firm during recent rounds. The...
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Sep 08 2016
Travers Smith has retained 94 per cent of qualifying trainees this September, maintaining the same retention rate as autumn of last year. Of 18 final-seat trainees,...
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Sep 08 2016
Clifford Chance has retained 82 per cent of its autumn qualifiers this year, with 41 of 49 qualifiers receiving offers, and 40 accepting. This figure represents a...
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Sep 02 2016
Bird & Bird will be increasing its salaries for NQs by 5%, from £59,000 to £62,000. Of 17 qualifiers, 15 will remain with the firm, constituting a retention rate of 88...
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Aug 23 2016
Herbert Smith Freeholds has offered positions to 31 of 33 trainees reaching qualification this September, with all 31 accepting offers. The firm also reported a 94 per...
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Aug 23 2016
Linklaters has announced that it will retain 91 per cent of this autumn’s qualifying trainees, with 51 of 56 final-seat trainees applying for newly-qualified jobs. Two...
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Aug 04 2016
Hogan Lovells announced that the firm has retained 80 per cent of this year’s newly qualified trainees, with 24 trainees accepting offers. Of 30 trainees, 29 submitted...
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Jul 18 2016
Allen & Overy became the first magic circle firm to release its latest retention figures. The firm, which had a historically smaller cohort totaling 42 qualifying...
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Aug 24 2015
Clifford Chance has finished a strong retention round for the autumn, keeping 45 of its 47 trainees, or 96 percent of the trainees. The firm made 45 offers and all...
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Jul 31 2015
Herbert Smith Freehills announced it has retained 34 of its 37 autumn 2015 trainees, giving the firm a strong 92 percent retention rate. Except for two of the newly...
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Jul 17 2015
Slaughter and May, a magic circle firm, has posted a retention rate of 89 percent for its qualifying autumn trainees, a slight dip from its 97 percent rate one year...
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Jun 23 2015
Weil Gotshal & Manges posted a 100 percent retention rate as it announced that it will hire its entire nine-trainee cohort for autumn 2015 as newly qualified lawyers....
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Jun 22 2015
Latham & Watkins will hire 20 of its 21 trainees as newly qualified lawyers for the autumn of 2015. Of the 21 trainees, one chose not to apply for a position at the...
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Jun 19 2015
Shearman & Sterling’s cohort of 13 trainees in its London office are all staying with the firm as newly-qualified lawyers. The 100 percent retention rate follows rates...
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Apr 14 2014
Linklaters has promoted 21 associates to the partnership, of whom nine are women. This ratio represents the the highest proportion of female new partners in the firm's...
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Jan 29 2014
UK firms are announcing their trainee retention rates for the March 2012 intake, with Clifford Chance, Herbert Smith Freehills and Ashurst reporting solid numbers....
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Aug 26 2013
Allen & Overy has posted its figures for retention of trainees qualifying in September, coming in last place among the magic circle firms.
54 trainees will qualify...
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Jul 30 2013
Mills & Reeve will keep 17 of its 20 second-year trainees - a retention rate of 85 per cent.
This year’s figures are an improvement on last September’s 76 per cent...
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Jun 04 2013
The US, Employment Tribunal has ruled that the compulsory retirement of Leslie Seldon, a partner in law firm Clarkson Wright and Jakes, at the age of 65, was not an...
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Apr 30 2013
A report by The Lawyer shows that trainee attrition cost magic circle law firms more than £10m between them last year.
The report looks at how much each firm...
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May 01 2012
Speculation about the timing and amount of spring bonuses continues, after Sullivan & Cromwell’s announced relatively small bonus awards of between $1000 and $5000, or...
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Oct 06 2011
Eversheds is set to introduce a new senior role as an alternative to partnership. The new ‘legal director’ is aimed at “recognising those senior people at the firm who...
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Jul 11 2011
Trainee retention figures are finding their way out into the light of day, and some of the results are less than pretty.
Slaughter and May has offered a job to all...
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Aug 12 2010
Linklaters has retained 87 per cent of its newly qualified solicitors, with 63 of the 69 qualifiers offered a place with the firm, and 60 accepting the offered roles....
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Jan 22 2010
Allen & Overy is to allow equity partners to work part-time in a bid to retain more of its female workforce.
The arrangement, which will come into place on 1 May,...
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Jan 11 2010
Allen & Overy has retained 87% of its March 2010 qualifying intake, marking an increase on the firm's projected retention rate. The magic circle firm has offered roles...
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Aug 05 2008
Trainee retention rates at a number of leading firms have plummeted as worsening economic conditions hit the employment market. DLA Piper, Linklaters, and Lovells have...
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Jun 17 2008
The credit crunch has failed to have an impact on trainee retention rates, with early indications from a cross-section of leading firms such as Freshfields Bruckhaus...
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