Denton Wilde Sapte and Taylor Wessing are both set to retain only half of their trainees due to qualify in September.

Dentons told all 31 of its September 2009 qualifiers last week (16 June) that it will only be offering 17 positions across the UK and Middle East. Of the 17 offers, which equate to a retention rate of 54%, two of the positions will be client secondments.