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Fortunes for Halliwells trainees improve
- 11th August 2010
Last week we reported on the efforts being taken to help the trainees who worked or were about to start at liquidated firm Halliwells.
Law firm Burges Salmon started a scheme last week to get law firms to participate in an effort to recruit those trainees so that they did not have to start their application process from the beginning.
This week, the firm says 30 law firms have “registered serious interest” in the scheme which closes to trainee applicants on 13 August. So far, 14 out of the 17 due to start in September have applied through the scheme. The firms, which include two magic circle firms, will not be obliged to take on any of the trainees. Burges Salmon says it intends to recruit one of the trainees. Senior partner Stephen McNulty who initiated the scheme said the response from the legal profession has been “very gratifying”.
Magic circle firm Clifford Chance has also offered training contracts to the two London-based first-year trainees who lost their jobs when Halliwells went under. It is understood they will start their second-year contracts this autumn.
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