Trainee Retention 100% for Cleary and Bird & Bird
Like many aspects legal business, trainee retention looks to likely to suffer this year. A number of firms have already announced that retention rates will be down on last year but here we have a brace of firms defying the current trend. Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Bird & Bird have managed to keep on all of their trainees. Cleary is the first of the US firms to announce a 100 per cent retention rate with six out of …
Like many aspects legal business, trainee retention looks to likely to suffer this year. A number of firms have already announced that retention rates will be down on last year but here we have a brace of firms defying the current trend. Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Bird & Bird have managed to keep on all of their trainees.
Cleary is the first of the US firms to announce a 100 per cent retention rate with six out of six trainees due to stay on in its London office in the autumn.
Bird & Bird was the first City law firm to retain 100 per cent of its trainees, 16 in total, due to qualify in September. Two of the trainees will qualify early thanks to previous work experience, one of whom will do so at the respectable age of 50!
June 8, 2009
good to see
June 8, 2009
Yea, wouldn’t want to be a trainee facing this recruitment market.
June 8, 2009
things may be looking up a bit by qualification time though
June 8, 2009
good housekeeping indeed, same cannot be said for some of their rivals