Nicholson Graham & Jones (NGJ) is offering its newly-qualified insolvency and corporate assistants six-month contracts in a bid to cope with the slowdown in commercial activity.

Although the firm is set to offer posts to eight of its nine trainees who will qualify in September this year, it is only offering posts in corporate and corporate recovery on six-month contracts to allow the firm more time to decide whether to keep them on permanently. At least two fee earners are affected.