Linklaters has confirmed that all 51 of its qualifiers who applied for permanent positions at the firm have been awarded NQ contracts, with just five declining to stay on. Of the new batch of juniors, 47 will remain at Linklaters’ London office, two are headed to Singapore and one each will join teams in Hong Kong and Tokyo. The result puts Linklaters in the middle of fellow Magic Circle firms Allen & Overy and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, with the former retaining 86 per cent for the autumn round and the latter posting an impressive 95 per cent retention rate. Clifford Chance and Slaughter and May are yet to publish their autumn figures.

Sources: The Lawyer; Legal Cheek