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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…

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…

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…

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…

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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…

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…

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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…

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…

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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…

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…

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…

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…

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