Trainee Retention Update: figures looking good
28 January 2011
More trainee retention results have been emerging this week and overall the figures are looking pretty positive. Here's the updated results table:

Firm	Number of trainees	NQs retained	%
Stephenson Harwood	5	5	100
Weil Gotshal	2	2	100
Osborne Clarke	5	5	100
Travers Smith	7	7	100
Slaughter and May	TBC	TBC	96
Berwin Leighton Paisner	21	20	95
Reed Smith	16	15	94
White & Case	13	12	92
Norton Rose	30	26	87
MacFarlanes	7	6	86
Nabarro	13	11	85
Allen & Overy	64	54	84
Simmons & Simmons	15	12	80
Pinsent Masons	14	11	79
Wragge & Co	7	5	71
CMS Cameron McKenna	30	19	63
Bircham Dyson Bell	7	4	57

It's champagne all round for Osborne Clarke and Travers Smith, both of which managed impressive 100% retention rates. Osborne Clarke kept on all of its five trainees whilst Travers has retained its entire intake of seven. And that's despite Travers' trainees moaning about the "exceptionally rude" partners and associates and standard of canteen food "slipping slightly" (click here for more Firm of the Year feedback).

Impressive results too from Berwin Leighton Paisner and Reed Smith, both firms keeping on all but one of their trainees. But it's a glass of lukewarm Vimto to Bircham Dyson Bell, which is currently propping up the table with a retention rate of only 57% - handing out jobs to only four of its seven trainees. Depressingly this is an exact repeat of the firm's 2010 performance. The firm declined to make a comment.

There are still plenty of firms yet to reveal the numbers of NQ jobs they'll be doling out - but initial results are certainly looking positive. To have at least four firms boasting 100% retention rates is not bad going.

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