Linklaters signs up to shortened LPC as firm cuts maintenance grant
Author: Jeremy Hodges
Linklaters' future trainees will see their Legal Practice Course (LPC) slashed from a year to just over seven months as part of a new-look course with the College of Law.
The law school will run the fast-track LPC course for Linklaters' students from January 2011, taking on two intakes a year in January and July.
Those due to start their training contract in September 2011 will start the course in January - rather than September under the current system - with those due to join in March 2012 to start the course in July next year.
The firm has also cut its maintenance grant from £7,000 to £5,000 to take account of the shortened course, which combines traditional classroom teaching alongside an online tutorial system that will see students studying online only for the first three weeks of the programme.
Linklaters said it made the decision following feedback from trainees.
Linklaters trainee partner Simon Firth told Legal Week: "It will mean there will be a shorter time between recruitment and joining the firm. Plus trainees will benefit from the continuity of learning they will gain, as they will join the firm straight after their LPC."
Linklaters' move comes 12 months after BPP Law School launched its own shortened LPC. The City consortium firms, comprising Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Herbert Smith, Lovells, Norton Rose and Slaughter and May, all signed up to the seven-and-a-half month course.
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