Mills & Reeve has agreed a deal to send its future trainees to Kaplan Law School.

The tie-up will see all of Mills & Reeve's future trainees choosing to study in London take their Legal Practice Course (LPC) at Kaplan's centre in Borough from September 2010. Those who do not want to study in the capital can attend the regional LPC provider of their choice.

Each year, Mills & Reeve – which has a total staff of almost 800 and offices in Birmingham, Cambridge, Leeds, London, Norwich and Manchester – recruits around 23 trainees. Last year 12 studied their LPCs in London.

Commenting on the arrangement, Sandy Boyle, HR director at Mills & Reeve, said: "We are confident that Kaplan will provide our trainees with a rich, dynamic and challenging programme."

Kaplan launched in the UK in 2007 in conjunction with Nottingham Law School, which provides the course and teaching.

Including Mills & Reeve, the school now has eight law firms sending students for the LPC – Mayer Brown, Penningtons, Manches, Trowers & Hamlins, Nabarro, Bird & Bird and Bates Wells & Braithwaite.

BPP has 17 firms signed up exclusively to its LPC, including the City LPC consortium, comprising Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Slaughter and May, Herbert Smith, Lovells and Norton Rose.

The College of Law has exclusive LPC tie-ups with 15 firms, among them magic circle trio Clifford Chance, Linklaters and Allen & Overy.

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