WFW offers trainees £5K to defer
updated on 12 April 2013
Watson Farley & Williams (WFW) has asked its September 2013 trainee intake to consider deferring their training contracts for a year, sweetening the deal with an offer of £5,000 for those who decide to do so.
Reported in RollOnFriday and Lawyer2B, WFW training principal Christina Howard said: "As many other London firms have done, we've considered trainee recruitment levels as part of our ongoing business planning strategy. We think that it would be better to defer a small number of trainees and therefore enquired whether that would fit with anyone’s plans." With a typical annual trainee intake of between 12 and 14, Howard said that the firm's intention is to "remain within that band following the deferrals".
It is not known how many prospective trainees have elected to take up the offer.
