Award winners 2011

June 2011 saw the eighth 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:

* Copies available in your careers service and/or law faculty.

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 2011, 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 2011

 

Allen & Overy LLP
Winner: Best recruiter - Large City firm
"I was struck by how enthusiastic, open-minded and genuine everyone seemed to be, and how willing the partners were to talk to people they may never see again."
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Baker & McKenzie
Winner: Best trainer - Large City firm
"We’re a firm that allows people to play to their strengths and appreciates the fact that different people have different skills to bring to the table."
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Burges Salmon
Winner: Best recruiter - National/large regional firm
"Candidates should come here because we have fantastic work, fantastic lawyers, and they can fit into our collaborative culture and help strengthen the team."
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DLA Piper UK LLP
Winner: Commendation for Diversity
"We’re a massively broad firm in terms of geography, practice areas and clients, whom we can't service to the best of our ability unless we have a diverse workforce. So that has to be central to recruitment."
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Farrer & Co LLP
Winner: Best recruiter - Medium City firm
"Trainees are not made to feel like just 'the trainees'; they’re regarded as a vital part of the firm and are consulted on matters you wouldn’t imagine they would be."
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Kirkland & Ellis International LLP
Winner: Best recruiter - US firm in the City
"With a small group of trainees, you are likely to be the only trainee on a deal - perhaps even the only trainee in a department. As a result, the level of work that you are going to get will be head and shoulders above that of friends or colleagues in other City firms."
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Mills & Reeve LLP
Winner: Best work placement scheme - Regional firm
"The scheme is basically a training contract condensed into two weeks. Everyone will get four training contract-style 'seats', so that they experience four completely different areas of law."
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Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (UK) LLP
Winner: Best work placement scheme - City firm
"I think [the scheme] mirrors what they would be doing on a training contract and shows them what they would be doing if they were to join us."
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Wragge & Co LLP
Winner: Best trainer - National/large regional firm
"People who come to Wragge having worked in other firms and organisations are surprised to find that our culture is genuinely different – people here really do think this is a great place to work."
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