Award winners 2010

June 2010 saw the seventh annual LawCareers.Net Training and Recruitment Awards. Once again we conducted a huge survey with a fantastic response rate. Nearly 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 2010, 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 2010

 

Bond Pearce LLP
Winner: Best Trainer - National/Large Regional Firm
"Our trainees are working with partners who are leaders in their field; they're learning from the best people."
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Burges Salmon
Winner: Best Recruiter - National/Large Regional Firm
"I think the investment that we make in our staff and the business as a whole stands out."
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CMS Cameron McKenna LLP
Winner: Best Recruiter - Large City Firm
"We are deliberately quite open with candidates – we want them to find out about us, and about the firm, because in a sense if they do join us, it is better that they are well informed.”
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Edwards Wildman Palmer UK LLP
Winner: Best Work Placement Scheme - City Firm
"Coming on the scheme gives students a more realistic picture of what to expect and a greater awareness of the part trainees can play in the work we do."
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Farrer & Co LLP
Winner: Best Trainer - Medium City Firm
"What we pride ourselves on, more than anything, is trying to make the trainees feel as though they are part of the firm from the moment they walk in through the door."
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Mills & Reeve LLP
Winner: Best Work Placement Scheme - Regional Firm
"Although we do put on talks and run social events, for the bulk of the time being a placement student here is essentially what you could expect to be doing if you were to get a training contract."
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Reed Smith
Winner: Best Trainer - Large City Firm
"Our objective is to help our trainees to become the best lawyers they can be."
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Shoosmiths
Winner: Commendation for Diversity
"We do a lot to promote diversity. What we can do, we will do – we're very proactive."
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Tees Solicitors
Winner: Best Trainer - Medium Regional Firm
"We give trainees as much responsibility as we assess that they can handle and, when we’re comfortable that they’re capable, they will be seeing clients."
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Travers Smith LLP
Winner: Best Recruiter - Medium City Firm
"I can honestly say that I've never got up in the morning and thought ‘Oh God, I've got to go to work’."
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