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From Burge Salmon’s website:

Burges Salmon is putting forward a plan to persuade the legal profession to rescue the careers of trainees and those whose offers of training contracts have been withdrawn as a result of the collapse of Halliwells.

All leading law firms in the country are being asked to consider taking on just one of these candidates, either to complete their training contract, or to start a new training contract.

Through its website, Burges Salmon is offering to collect the CVs of former Halliwells’ trainees whose training contracts have been prematurely ended, or those who have been notified that their offer of a training contract has been withdrawn.

The senior partner of Burges Salmon, Stephen McNulty said: “I believe it is incumbent on the solicitors’ profession as a whole to do something to help these individuals whose professional lives could be seriously de-railed by the withdrawal of their training contracts. All firms have a responsibility to the profession and I believe that it is right they should consider co-operating in the scheme so that as many training contracts as possible are re-instated.” He has already gained the support in principle of a number of senior partners to whom he has proposed the plan.