Eversheds and Clyde & Co have become the latest UK top 50 firms to confirm their autumn trainee retention rates for 2013, following a clutch of announcements in recent weeks.

Eversheds is keeping on 84% of its newly qualified (NQ) lawyers this autumn after offering 40 of its 45 qualifiers a role at the firm, with 38 accepting. The percentage is flat on last autumn's round, when the firm retained the same proportion of NQs.

Meanwhile, Clydes has confirmed it will hold on to 95% of its qualifying round, after 36 of its total intake of 37 took a role at the firm. The result remains broadly static on the rate achieved last September, when the firm held on to 94% of its qualifiers.