Tag: Training contracts

DWF defers training contract start dates by six months
Thirty-one new joiners will now start in February

DLA Piper offers future trainees £10,000 to delay TC start dates by a year
Exclusive: Or £5,000 for six months

10 ways to boost your chances of securing a training contract during lockdown
Learn a new skill, start a vlog, attend virtual law fairs and write for Legal Cheek -- there's plenty to do

Rookie solicitor puts training contract on hold to work in coronavirus-battered pharmacies
King's grad Thorrun Govind dusts off pharmacy qualifications during pandemic

How Instagram can help you get a training contract at a national law firm
Five tips courtesy of Shoosmiths

Orrick pushes back training contract assessments ‘until early 2021’
Exclusive: Felt virtual assessments would not offer applicants same level of insight into trainee life

An open letter to law firms considering deferring training contracts
They should look to the past before making decisions on trainees' futures

How COVID-19 will impact law students
ULaw pro-vice chancellor Peter Crisp provides a big picture overview and draws parallels between the 2008 financial and coronavirus crises

Kennedys launches SQE-ready solicitor apprenticeship for graduates
New 30-month TC alternative enables trainees to earn while they learn

Former Milbank junior lawyer probed over ‘opportunistic’ COVID-19 mentoring site
Singapore-based associate accused of targeting vulnerable TC hunters with costly online offering

Squire Patton Boggs warns it may defer training contracts
Exclusive: City firm continuing to plan for August intake but urges future trainees to ‘hold off making financial decisions’ until COVID-19 situation is clearer

Irwin Mitchell delays trainee start dates by six months in response to pandemic
Exclusive: New starters will now join in February 2021

Gateley furloughs trainee solicitors
Some rookies may also have qualification dates pushed back in response to pandemic

Hogan Lovells makes training contract offers early as it cancels summer vacation schemes
Exclusive: Some candidates offered winter vacation scheme places

‘Will coronavirus cost me my magic circle TC?’
I'm due to start in August 2022

99 training contract interview tips
With examples of the questions you need to know how to answer

‘Should I renege on my accepted TC offer to take one at a better firm?’
I need readers' advice

Coronavirus could delay City law trainee spring start dates
LPC grads returning from breaks in far flung destinations will have to heed quarantine advice

Dentons revamps training contract in bid to make trainees more resilient
Global law firm wants to create 'more good days at work'

Student Event: Secrets to Success Leeds — with Squire Patton Boggs, Kings Chambers, Womble Bond Dickinson and ULaw
Wednesday 11 December at ULaw Leeds; open to all students and graduates

Clifford Chance launches business internship for future trainees
New scheme will see vac scheme places reduced but additional open days introduced for penultimate-year students