Clifford Chance (CC) has become the latest magic circle firm to reveal its spring retention rate, announcing it will keep on 94% of its March 2014 intake of newly qualified (NQ) lawyers.

The magic circle firm has offered roles to 45 of 48 potential NQs, with all of them accepting positions.

The result is up on the same point in the previous year, when the firm kept on 82% of the lawyers that applied to qualify.