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Eversheds to integrate LPC with training contract
16 December 2011

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Eversheds has launched a new "integrated training programme" with BPP Law School, under which trainees will complete the LPC as they work their way through their training contracts.

An intake of 12 trainees will join the firm in January 2013 in London, Leeds and Birmingham, having spent just four months at BPP doing the compulsory bits of the LPC (that's the exciting stuff like solicitors' accounts). They will then complete their electives whilst working at the firm. For example, the student trainees will get to do their advanced commercial property elective during a commercial property seat.

The students will be paid as much as a normal 2012 trainee whilst they're in the office, and Eversheds of course gets its hands on some fee-earning material a bit earlier. A spokeswoman said that the firm "anticipated that this more focused, work-based learning approach will be very popular".

A new trainee being totally immersed at Eversheds. How it may look.

BPP, which is running the scheme in conjunction with the firm, said that it was a "fantastic initiative...By enabling trainees to immerse themselves in the firm whilst studying, they can take what they learn on the LPC and apply it straightaway in a practical context". Although it's possible that the students who will have to juggle training, exams and work simultaneously won't all see it that way.

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anonymous user 16/12/2011 08:52 Rate it 0 Report as offensive Gets the hoop-jumping of the LPC out of the way quicker by integrating it with some real-world experience. I wish this had been in place when I was training.
anonymous user 16/12/2011 09:48 Rate it 0 Report as offensive Sounds a bit like how many grads do College of Law in Sydney, except that's wholly part-time.
anonymous user 16/12/2011 11:37 Rate it 0 Report as offensive I moved from the private practice to a Big 4 accountancy firm's tax function. The trainee-equivalents here hate having to juggle their studies and work. That said, the LPC is hardly equivalent in merit or difficulty to accountancy/tax exams. One in three was the number of days I had to work in the LPC year to pass. One in three is the pass rate for the CTA...
anonymous user 16/12/2011 15:58 Rate it 0 Report as offensive The LPC seems a soft option compared to the old LSF. Bring back the days of 13 subjects over 11 months, 50% pass marks, no continuous assessment and the 13 subjects examined over 6 consecutive days at the end. Not forgetting the charming business of publishing your results in The Times instead of mailing them to you and only publishing your results 2 weeks after you’d started your training contract. OK, the LSF was pointless exam-machismo in many ways; but in best grumpy old git style it used to cheer me up that subsequent generations were suffering as well.

anonymous user
16/12/2011 08:52

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Gets the hoop-jumping of the LPC out of the way quicker by integrating it with some real-world experience. I wish this had been in place when I was training.

anonymous user
16/12/2011 09:48

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Sounds a bit like how many grads do College of Law in Sydney, except that's wholly part-time.

anonymous user
16/12/2011 11:37

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I moved from the private practice to a Big 4 accountancy firm's tax function. The trainee-equivalents here hate having to juggle their studies and work.

That said, the LPC is hardly equivalent in merit or difficulty to accountancy/tax exams. One in three was the number of days I had to work in the LPC year to pass. One in three is the pass rate for the CTA...

anonymous user
16/12/2011 15:58

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The LPC seems a soft option compared to the old LSF. Bring back the days of 13 subjects over 11 months, 50% pass marks, no continuous assessment and the 13 subjects examined over 6 consecutive days at the end. Not forgetting the charming business of publishing your results in The Times instead of mailing them to you and only publishing your results 2 weeks after you’d started your training contract.
OK, the LSF was pointless exam-machismo in many ways; but in best grumpy old git style it used to cheer me up that subsequent generations were suffering as well.