Award Winners 2009

June 2009 saw the sixth annual LawCareers.Net Training and Recruitment Awards. Once again we conducted a huge survey with a fantastic response rate. Over 2,500 trainees and newly-qualified solicitors responded with their thoughts on the training and recruitment experience, and on how they felt their firms had performed. Based on these replies we selected the winners of our awards. We prepared exclusive LawCareers.Net profiles of each winner for publication in the LawCareers.Net Best in Law magazine.* Read the profiles here:

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Best in Law
Best in Law focuses on excellence in recruiting and training tomorrow's lawyers. The magazine looks at those firms that won or were nominated for LC.N's Training and Recruitment Awards 2009, as well as examining what a good candidate needs to know to display the excellence that catches the eye of recruiters.
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Best in Law 2009
Ashurst LLP
Winner: Best Recruiter - Large City Firm
"I was looking for a large City firm with international prospects and with a high profile and impressive client base."
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Burges Salmon
Winner: Best Recruiter - National/Large Regional Firm
"The seat rotation is one of our selling points and one that trainees consistently say is a key reason why they choose to work at Burges Salmon."
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Edwards Wildman Palmer UK LLP
Winner: Best Work Placement Scheme - City Firm
"We are able to offer a very personalised training contract that allows trainees to really make their mark. The summer scheme represents a distilled version of that."
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Government Legal Service
Winner: Best Recruiter & Trainer - In-house/Public Sector
"The work our trainees do is all real work, alongside qualified lawyers on the major projects of a department."
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Mills & Reeve LLP
Winner: Best Work Placement Scheme - Regional Firm
"First and foremost, our vacation scheme gives students the opportunity both to discover whether a career in the law is for them and to show us what they can do."
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