Herbert Smith Freehills has revealed an increased retention rate of 90 per cent for its spring 2014 qualifiers. The City firm offered 38 trainees, from a cohort of 42, newly-qualified (NQ) roles at the firm. Of those, all 38 accepted. Of the 38 trainees, 33 will qualify into the London office, two will work in […]
Olswang has notched up a 100 per cent retention rate, with all eight of its spring qualifiers choosing to stay on at the firm after being offered NQ jobs. Seven of eight trainees take up newly qualified positions in the London office while the last will join the Thames Valley real estate team. The London […]
Being Singaporean-Chinese myself, for my international secondment I chose to apply to the corporate department at Linklaters’ Shanghai office, primarily for a first-hand experience of life in this emerging economic superpower, as well as to develop my language skills. The office is located in the Pudong district of Shanghai, just a short journey from my […]
Walker Morris is to send all of its future trainees to BPP, citing the institution’s business acumen as the reason for its choice. Prospective lawyers for the Leeds-based firm will study both the Graduate Diploma in Law and the Legal Practice Course at the university’s Leeds base. Walker Morris cited BPP’s ‘commercial and client-focused approach’ […]
So many graduates with great CVs let themselves down by not looking right at interview. Paris Smith training partner Sarah Passemard runs through the mistakes she sees all the time.
Anyone can fit the mould. Anyone can be memorable. But can anyone fit the mould and be memorable at the same time?
Major City firms are manipulating their retention rate figures by handing out short-term contracts, The Lawyer has learned. US firms Mayer Brown and Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe are among those understood to have offered trainees a short-term contract in the last year, while Travers Smith is facing a claim from pregnant trainee Katie Tantum who […]