Some of the UK’s largest law firms are reviewing their graduate recruitment practices in the wake of the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) last week confirming that it would be withdrawing its support for the graduate recruitment code at the end of this month.
Linklaters is one of five UK top 20 firms looking at the issue following the SRA’s decision to abandon the voluntary code, which advises that training contracts should not be offered to students before 1 September in their final year of undergraduate study.
