Inaugural Accutrainees secure qualifying positions

The first two people to have completed the Accutrainee programme have been taken on by the firms at which they trained.

As reported in Lawyer2B, Flora Hussey has become an associate at private client boutique firm New Quadrant Partners and Simon Latham has joined US firm Hausfeld & Co. Both Flora and Simon joined Accutrainee following its launch in 2011. It offers an alternative to the traditional training contract model, recruiting its own trainees and seconding them to firms and in-house legal departments. A number of organisations have signed up to the programme, including City firm Olswang.

Susan Cooper, founder and CEO of Accutrainee, said: "There is a strong business case for our training model, particularly for legal service providers which are interested in a diverse, quality assured pool of candidates who can be taken on in a flexible, efficient, cost effective way. The time and resources we put into our selection process all year round means clients have access to an entirely different pool of talent they might have otherwise missed."