The firm offered places to 33 of its 38 trainees, or 87 per cent. The figure is slightly lower than last year’s spring figure of 85 per cent, with the firm having firm kept on 41 of 48 trainees after offering places to 91 per cent.
Freshfields performed better than Magic Circle peer Clifford Chance, which posted a retention rate of 80 per cent. But it fared a little worse than Linklaters, which kept 45 of a 54-strong cohort, or 83 per cent, and Allen & Overy, which kept 39 of 43, or 91 per cent, of trainees.
Slaughter and May also posted a rate of 91 per cent, when 38 of the firm's 40 qualifying trainees accepted NQ positions. The figure was an improvement for the firm from last autumn, when it kept on 33 of 37 trainees, and its 2015 spring intake, when 88 per cent of a cohort of 42 accepted offers.
Email your news and story ideas to: [email protected]
