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Watson Burton manages to outsource nearly all its qualifying trainees
07 August 2009
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Watson Burton has confirmed that it is only keeping on one or two of its eight qualifying trainees, sinking to nearly the bottom of RollOnFriday's trainee retention table.

Firm  No. of qualifying trainees  No. being kept on  % being kept on 
Bird & Bird 16 16 100%
Cleary Gottlieb 6 6 100%
TLT     6 6 100%
Burges Salmon     21 19 90%
Reynolds Porter Chamberlain 17 15 88%
Macfarlanes 21 18 85%
Norton Rose 24 20 83%
Linklaters     66 50 79%
Allen & Overy     62 48 77%
Manches 8 6 75%
Ashurst     30 22 73%
Freshfields 48 34 71%
BLG 21 14 70%
Clifford Chance     70     49 70%
Lovells     36 25 69%
Shearman & Sterling 14 9 64%
Jones Day 13 7 54%
McGrigors 29 14 48%
LG 21 9 42%
Bircham Dyson Bell 10 4 40%
DLA Piper 57 20 35%
Brodies 20 5 25%
Shepherd  & Wedderburn 34 8 24%
Blake Lapthorn 14 2 14%
Watson Burton 8 1-2 12.5% - 25%
Maclay Murray Spens 31 3 10% 
The firm may have a shameful retention rate, but at least it got off its arse and tried to help its trainees. Chris Graham, trainee partner at the firm, said that all but one of the NQs had been offered jobs elsewhere. One is joining a client of the firm, another is going to a local accountant.

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