So Nottingham Law School has finally entered the race to run bespoke Legal Practice Courses (LPC) for leading City firms.

On Monday (13 November), it secured its first customer in the shape of US firm Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw’s not insubstantial London office (see story). Nottingham was once at the forefront of the leading City firms’ drive to improve the quality of the LPC by drawing up tailor-made courses. But it lost ground due to its reluctance to open an office in London, where the bulk of the leading firms want their students to be based. This left the way open for the College of Law and BPP to make all the running.