RPC signs exclusive agreement to send trainees to BPP
City firm Reynolds Porter Chamberlain (RPC) has signed an exclusive deal with BPPlaw school. The agreement will see all of RPC's future trainees studying the Legal Practice Course (LPC) with BPP from September this year. The course will be specifically tailored to RPC's needs. The deal makes RPC the latest in a stream of firms to sign exclusive training agreements with individual law schools, with BPP running programmes for 12 firms. Last September, the City LPC consortium of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Herbert Smith, Lovells, Norton Rose, and Slaughter and May extended their relationship with BPP by agreeing to send all their Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) students to the school.
January 15, 2009 at 12:25 AM
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City firm Reynolds Porter Chamberlain (RPC) has signed an exclusive deal with BPP law school.
The agreement will see all of RPC's future trainees studying the Legal Practice Course (LPC) with BPP from September this year.
The course will be specifically tailored to RPC's needs.
The deal makes RPC the latest in a stream of firms to sign exclusive training agreements with individual law schools, with BPP running programmes for 12 firms.
Last September, the City LPC consortium of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Herbert Smith, Lovells, Norton Rose, and Slaughter and May extended their relationship with BPP by agreeing to send all their Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) students to the school.
The school is also launching an accelerated LPC course that will reduce the length of the course by several months.
Jonathan Watmough, managing partner at RPC, said: "Our trainees will arrive with knowledge gained from a year at BPP supplemented by training from key RPC staff."
Peter Crisp, chief executive of BPP said: "Twelve firms have now decided that sending their trainees to one provider will give the best possible experience to their trainees."
Rival training provider the College of Law has signed up Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Clifford Chance, Linklaters and Allen & Overy to exclusive agreements.
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