Recruitment activity continues to improve, providing further evidence of a sustained increase in hiring activity, according to this month’s Legal Week/Chadwick Nott recruitment index.

A poll of more than 100 recruitment decision makers at leading UK firms found 67% of the respondents expecting to increase their overall recruitment activity in the next three months. This compares to last month when 64% of the poll anticipated that they would be hiring more people in the next quarter.