Trainee solicitors to be recruited solely from vacation scheme at Mishcon from 2017
updated on 10 October 2014
Mishcon de Reya has confirmed that it will offer training contracts only to those attending its vacation scheme.
The change reflects the firm’s belief that assessing candidates over the vacation scheme period will allow it to recruit only the strongest applicants as trainees, as Lawyer2B reports. Mishcon runs three vacation schemes a year; about one third of those attending the firm on work experience will be taken on for a training contract. Other firms which operate similar graduate recruitment methods are Nabarro, Morrison & Foerster and Skadden.
Charlotte Lynch, graduate recruitment adviser at the firm, commented to Legal Cheek: "We don’t want to exclude people and ultimately we think this approach is mutually beneficial, in the sense that it is a gamble to join a firm when you have only experienced an assessment day".
