BPP Law School has announced a tie-up with Withers which will see the City firm send its trainees to the school to study the Graduate Diploma in Law and the Legal Practice Course (LPC).

Withers trainees will study the courses at BPP's centres in London, Leeds or Manchester, attending lectures and tutorials alongside students with training contracts at other firms.

The arrangement brings the total number of law firms sending trainees exclusively to study the LPC at BPP to 17. Other firms to have signed up with BPP include Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Slaughter and May and Herbert Smith.