Clifford Chance has dropped the University of Law as its training provider and switched to BPP.

BPP will teach CC's future trainees the MA LPC from next January and the GDL from September 2015.

Insiders tell RollOnFriday that UoL staff were told about CC's decision this morning. It is a huge blow for the university. Clifford Chance has intakes of around 100 trainees a year and the firm's contract is worth millions.

The University of Law, yesterday

Private equity company Montagu might be ruing its decision to buy the former charity, if it wasn't flogging off all its property. Last September BPP swooped in and took Allen & Overy off the UoL's hands, and then last month it added DWF. Both firms have sizeable intakes. And now the breaded cat has won over Clifford Chance.

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