Over the last few months, increasing numbers of firms have been asking their 2009 graduate intake to delay their training contract start dates.Clifford Chance (CC), Norton Rose, Herbert Smith and Simmons & Simmons are among the firms to pay off recruits due to start in September, giving them the opportunity to put off their entry into the working world for a year. Some of the offers are dependent on the firms getting enough volunteers to defer; otherwise compulsory deferral may be introduced.
April 08, 2009 at 09:38 PM
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The original version of this story was published on Legalweek
More and more trainees are finding their training contracts are being pushed back for a year as law firms struggle to cope with the downturn. Alex Aldridge explores how lawyers-to-be can best spend their enforced gap year
Over the last few months, increasing numbers of firms have been asking their 2009 graduate intake to delay their training contract start dates.
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