Shearman & Sterling has signed an exclusive deal with Kaplan Law School to provide the Legal Practice Course (LPC) and Graduate Diploma of Law (GDL) for its London trainees.

As a part of the agreement, which will start in Autumn 2011, trainees at the US firm’s London office will participate in Kaplan’s ‘Bridge to Practice’ programme, which is designed to ease the transition from the LPC into a commercial law firm.