It has been announced that Clifford Chance trainees will be joining their Magic Circle peers in sitting through a truncated, seven month LPC.
The new course will begin in January 2012. Which means that the graduating class of 2011 will have to wait for several months from say May or June, when they finish their degree or GDL, until January when they can start the LPC, The Lawyer reports. Any students planning to do anything interesting with that time, can get in touch here.
Although the LPC normally takes a solid ten months or so, the compressed version is tailored more closely to the demands of the big firms. The firms like this sort of arrangment because they can ensure the documents students practise on are house style, and will match those they'll see during their training. But they also like it because it means they can pay their students less. The usual £7,000 maintenance grant CC hands out to impoverished LPC students has been pro-rated down to £5,000. G&Ts for the partners all round!
The law schools have been fighting to snap up the Magic Circle firms for these courses. BPP - which is already on its third class of fast-track LPC'ers - has snared Freshfields and Slaughter and May. The College of Law meanwhile has snapped up Links and CC, so it's just Allen & Overy left to grab from the big five - and the firm currently insists on its trainees studying at the College of Law for the full year.
The College of Law told RollOnFriday that "the students on the accelerated course will be covering exactly the same syllabus as our other LPC students, but they will not have the holidays usually allocated in the academic year. The main driver for Clifford Chance is to keep the momentum going between finishing the LPC and starting training contracts so that the students' learning is current."
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The new course will begin in January 2012. Which means that the graduating class of 2011 will have to wait for several months from say May or June, when they finish their degree or GDL, until January when they can start the LPC, The Lawyer reports. Any students planning to do anything interesting with that time, can get in touch here.
Although the LPC normally takes a solid ten months or so, the compressed version is tailored more closely to the demands of the big firms. The firms like this sort of arrangment because they can ensure the documents students practise on are house style, and will match those they'll see during their training. But they also like it because it means they can pay their students less. The usual £7,000 maintenance grant CC hands out to impoverished LPC students has been pro-rated down to £5,000. G&Ts for the partners all round!
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The LPC being trimmed yesterday |
The law schools have been fighting to snap up the Magic Circle firms for these courses. BPP - which is already on its third class of fast-track LPC'ers - has snared Freshfields and Slaughter and May. The College of Law meanwhile has snapped up Links and CC, so it's just Allen & Overy left to grab from the big five - and the firm currently insists on its trainees studying at the College of Law for the full year.
The College of Law told RollOnFriday that "the students on the accelerated course will be covering exactly the same syllabus as our other LPC students, but they will not have the holidays usually allocated in the academic year. The main driver for Clifford Chance is to keep the momentum going between finishing the LPC and starting training contracts so that the students' learning is current."