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The NY Bar exam - first we take Manhattan, then we take Burnley
The College of Law’s newly-launched ‘US JD-style’ course - which enable its graduates to sit the New York Bar exam - will doubtless hold an allure to the increasing numbers of law students completing their studies without training contracts or p...
18 Mar 2010 | 18:04
Addleshaws heads up 2010 trainee retention rankings with 89% of March intake kept on
Addleshaw Goddard retained the highest number of March 2010 qualifying trainees in the UK top 30, with the national law firm keeping 89% of its intake. The firm kept on eight of the nine trainees qualifying and 100% of those applying for jobs, putt...
17 Mar 2010 | 10:41
Shoosmiths opens up trainee recruitment after 2009 freeze
Shoosmiths has restarted its trainee recruitment programme following its controversial move last year to withdraw training contracts without offering financial compensation. The national firm has opened the recruitment process for trainees for its ...
15 Mar 2010 | 11:29
Student round up: CoL offers NY Bar course and BPP brings in statistician
The College of Law has unveiled a new course that will enable students to sit the New York Bar exam.From September, students sitting the full-time Graduate Diploma in Law programme who go on to complete either the Legal Practice Course (LPC) or Bar Pr...
12 Mar 2010 | 15:47
College of Law to offer New York Bar course for UK law students
The College of Law has unveiled a new course that will enable students to sit the New York Bar exam. From September, students sitting the full-time Graduate Diploma in Law programme who go on to complete either the Legal Practice Course (LPC) or Ba...
12 Mar 2010 | 14:52
Trainee retention at UK top 30 falls below 80%
Trainee retention rates across the UK's top 30 law firms have been hit by the ongoing economic downturn, with most firms with March 2010 intakes retaining under 80% of their newly-qualified lawyers. Legal Week research shows the average retention r...
11 Mar 2010 | 00:01
Simmons puts 25 trainees on new MBA programme
Simmons & Simmons is set to put 25 of its future trainees onto its MBA programme with BPP this September, with the firm moving to make the MBA a permanent option within its graduate recruitment process. The City firm is now asking all potential rec...
04 Mar 2010 | 00:01
SJB names City partner as graduate recruitment co-head
SJ Berwin has named City litigation partner Nicola Bridge as its new co-head of graduate recruitment. The appointment comes as SJ Berwin kicks off a joint Masters programme with BPP Law School, with the first full week of training taking place this...
25 Feb 2010 | 00:01
Size matters
Big firms put their associates through hell, but small firms pay peanuts, says junior lawyer Louise Michael...As I ponder the wisdom of my career decisions to date, I've been giving some thought to the question of where is the best place to start a le...
24 Feb 2010 | 12:07
Law Student Report 2010
Capturing the views of over 3,000 law undergraduates from the UK's top universities (the Russell group) as well as Graduate Diploma in Law students from the College of Law, BPP and Kaplan, this report identifies the reasons why students choose law as ...
15 Feb 2010 | 16:32
Bingham sets standard for London salaries with £100,000 pay for NQs
Bingham McCutchen has emerged as one of the best-paying firms for newly-qualified (NQ) lawyers in London with NQ salaries of more than £100,000. The firm said that it pays New York rates, which currently stand at around $160,000 (£102,000) for NQ...
15 Feb 2010 | 14:28
Linklaters signs up to shortened LPC as firm cuts maintenance grant
Linklaters' future trainees will see their Legal Practice Course (LPC) slashed from a year to just over seven months as part of a new-look course with the College of Law. The law school will run the fast-track LPC course for Linklaters' students fr...
12 Feb 2010 | 11:04
Dentons opts to keep on just one trainee from March intake
Denton Wilde Sapte is to retain just one of the seven trainees due to qualify at the firm in March. Two trainees withdrew from the qualification process, but of the five remaining, Dentons chose to offer a position to only one. The decision means t...
10 Feb 2010 | 17:11
Lovells sees retention rates rise with 81% of March intake kept on
Lovells has retained 81% of its March intake of newly-qualified lawyers, with 26 of 32 applicants winning jobs at the City firm. The news marks a significant increase on September 2009's retention rate of 69%, when 36 trainees from a qualifying int...
09 Feb 2010 | 12:50
Stuck in a hole
Some days redundancy doesn’t look like such a bad option, says City associate Louise Michael...Spare a thought for those in the early stage of their careers in law. From my own experience - and the experience of my friends – it’s clear that at ...
05 Feb 2010 | 10:00
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