Flexible Legal Resourcing – Client FAQs
Do you need additional resourcing for your legal team? Here are some of our client FAQs. Please call us on 020 7040 0973 if you have any further questions. (more…)
My First Seat
Earlier this year I completed my first seat with the London office of an American firm. The London office specialises in trade finance and insurance litigation employing some of the leading practitioners in these fields. One of the greatest advantages…
Accutrainee Questions and Answers
Listen to one of our recent trainees talk about his experiences as an Accutrainee Trainee, his training contract and some helpful tips!
My First Trainee Secondment
Before starting my first trainee secondment in July this year, I had already researched the client and met my future boss. However, not knowing exactly what was to come on my first secondment to a client still proved a little…
Day One to Qualification – My In-House Training Contract
1 November 2015: the first day of my training contract. Now, almost two years later, I am approaching qualification and the (at one point fairly distant) dream of being able to say, “I am a solicitor!” is finally within reach.…
10 Tips for a perfect training contract application
10 Tips for a perfect training contract application
The advantages of training with Accutrainee
How does the Accutrainee selection process compare to a traditional law firm selection process? The application process was straightforward and quick compared to many traditional law firms. If successful at application stage, you are invited to attend an HR interview with…
My Training Contract Journey
Author: Charles Laporte-Bisquit (Qualified Solicitor via Accutrainee) As you embark on what could be a two-year journey of gainful employment in a law firm or company, my main advice to those reading this blog entry is to obtain as wide…
Cass Alumna Wins Prestigious “The Lawyer” Award
Congratulations to CEO and founder of Accutrainee and Cass alumna Susan Cooper (EMBA 2010) on winning “Most Innovative Collaboration with In-House Legal Teams” at The Lawyer Business Leadership Awards 2015. Accutrainee bridges the gap between graduates, the provision of training…
Growing from Within
How thinking differently about recruitment can help in-house legal teams meet their biggest challenge… The challenges facing in-house legal teams are well-documented. An economic and regulatory environment-induced pressure to manage increasing workload, while containing or in many cases reducing resources.…
LBC Wise Counsel/LexisNexis Grow your own – 10 advantages of trainee solicitors in an in-house legal team
In this article Paul Gilbert, Chief Executive of LBC Wise Counsel, explores the opportunity for in-house teams to recruit and manage trainee solicitors as part of the mix of resources within the in-house team. In 1999 I was General Counsel…
Agency heralds revolutionary approach to solicitors training contracts
Fans say the scheme offers better value for law firms, without sacrificing quality for prospective young lawyers. Solicitors’ training contracts are viewed by many as arcane as the days when they were known as articles of clerkship — but a…
Legal Business: In-house analysis “Lessons Learned”
While the in-house profession has come of age, the number of home-grown trainees remains tiny. Legal Business assesses whether in-house teams should lessen their reliance on law firm-schooled staff. Despite talk of radical changes to legal education and burgeoning in-house…
Lawyer2B: Accutrainee secures first training contract recruit
Accutrainee has agreed its first training contract for an aspiring lawyer, at an undisclosed Top 20 law firm. Flora Hussey is the first trainee to be recruited by Accutrainee and began her training contract this summer at London-based New Quadrant…
Law Society Gazette: Accutrainee welcomes first recruit
A groundbreaking scheme that finds trainees and seconds them to law firms on a temporary basis has welcomed its first recruit. Flora Hussey has become the first trainee to sign up to Accutrainee since it was launched last September. Trainees…
Lawyer2B: Accutrainees first qualifiers land NQ jobs
The first two people to go through the Accutrainee program have landed newly qualified jobs with firms they were placed with. Flora Hussey has taken up an associate role at London private client boutique New Quadrant Partners, while Simon Latham…
The Lawyer: Fledgling training model off to a flying start
More than 400 aspiring lawyers have signed up to the radical new training model Accutrainee since its launch in September 2011. To date the revolutionary training business has had four organisations commit to the programme, which incorporates a combination of…
Guardian: Can a cut-price traineeship ever be a good deal for a wannabe lawyer?
For the lucky ones who get jobs with the top firms, the life of a rookie lawyer is a charmed one. Not only do the likes of Allen & Overy – where Prince Harry’s ex, Chelsy Davy, began work as…
Legal Futures: Founder of novel trainee secondment business defends model from critics
The lawyer behind a new outsourcing venture that recruits trainee solicitors and then seconds them to law firms and in-house legal departments to do their training contracts has been defending the model from a volley of instant criticism. READ FULL…
Times online: New scheme to offer outsourced trainee lawyers
Medium and small firms struggling to provide training contacts will soon be able to recruit trainees under a revolutionary new trainee-solicitor agency scheme. The scheme is launched today by Acculaw and is the first to be authorised by the Solicitors…
Law Gazette: New solicitor training model could shake up the City
A groundbreaking solicitor training model has launched this week, targeting City law firms and in-house legal departments. The first non-legal service provider to be authorised by the Solicitors Regulation Authority to take on trainees, Acculaw claims it will cut costs…