Almost three-quarters of top City firms offer no formal training for managing assistants, despite junior lawyers labelling the assistant-line manager relationship as crucial for retention.
The revelation comes as Legal Week this week unveils the results of an extensive assistants survey, which polled 58 of the City’s top practices. Seventy-one percent of firms admitted that assistants’ line managers are not made to go on compulsory management training, relying instead, according the report, on the ‘innate people management skills’ of its partners.
