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Garrigues launches MBA management programme for law firm leaders

Garrigues' former managing partner is set to launch an executive Master of Business Administration (MBA) to train lawyers and other professionals on leading advisory businesses. Miguel Gordillo, who stepped down from his role as managing partner at the Spanish giant in September 2009, will launch the programme in October this year alongside former chief executive of Deloitte in Europe Alberto Terol.
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A legal gig - why Blur's drummer decided to train as a lawyer

It's the first day of the Legal Practice Course (LPC) at BPP Law School's Holborn branch. To break the ice, the tutor suggests that each person tells everyone else what they did over the summer. Cue the usual tales of vacation schemes and exotic holidays. Finally, it's the turn of the scruffy older guy in the corner. "I did some gigs in Hyde Park, then headlined Glastonbury." "A few people thought I was joking at first," explains Dave Rowntree, LPC student and drummer in the band Blur. "But they googled me and found out I was telling the truth. Not that it was a big deal - after a day it was obvious I wasn't going to turn up in a diamond-encrusted Rolls Royce and laud it over everyone. I'm serious about the law and love learning."
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Eversheds set to launch new training academy

Eversheds is set to launch a new training academy as part of a major shake-up of its learning and development framework, in a bid to move further away from promotions based on post-qualification experience (PQE). Junior lawyers at the firm will be able to apply to study courses on business accounts and reporting, building commercial relationships, marketing and business development from June. The firm will also run a shortened Master in Business Administration programme.
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Student round-up: Coventry Uni unveils sports law course; Ashurst signs UAE law school deal

Coventry University is launching a new postgraduate certificate in sports law. The one-year programme will run for the first time from October 2010, and will be delivered at Coventry University's new London campus located in East India House in the City of London. The course, which will cost around £3,000, is open to anyone with an LLB or GDL qualification or to non-legally qualified individuals with significant experience in the sports world.
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OC signs up to exclusive College of Law training deal

Osborne Clarke (OC) has become the latest firm to seal an exclusive deal to send all of its City trainees to study at the College of Law. From September 2010, the college will provide the Graduate Diploma in Law, the Professional Skills Course and the Legal Practice Course for all of OC's future trainees.
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Ashurst targets Indian graduates in effort to broaden trainee intake

Ashurst will for the first time take on trainees direct from India from September 2011. The top 10 law firm has been actively targeting both Indian and Chinese universities for prospective trainees over the last year, with the first wave of new recruits set to hit the firm next year.
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International Edition

Camerons offers two NQs contracts over permanent positions

CMS Cameron McKenna has taken the unusual step of offering trainees temporary contracts upon qualification. Camerons retained an above-average 79% of its 29 trainees qualifying in March, but it has since emerged that two of the group were offered contracts of just one year and six months respectively.
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Training and education

Attempts to replace the training contract with work-based education are struggling to win support...
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Training and education: Leaders in the making

Many current managing partners joined their firms before law became a global business. They worked hard, focused on their clients and then found themselves running increasingly complex and sophisticated organisations. Not surprisingly, the approach to leadership and management in law varies greatly and many leaders have been left to develop these broader skills in relative isolation. This is compounded by the fact that every other fee earner in the firm is working hard, focusing on their clients and trying their best to ignore the things that management is doing. This article assesses the extent to which current approaches to developing partners prepares them for the future and the role that training/development departments play in this future.
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Training and education: The evolution of legal training

Since its establishment in January 2007, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has indelibly stamped its mark on the profession. Having introduced a new code of conduct in 2007 and overhauled the Legal Practice Course, the SRA in 2008 began to tackle the training contract, which has been the route for qualification as a solicitor since 1994, by trialing a new system for training lawyers. "We're aiming to make the legal profession one pure meritocracy," declares SRA education and training manager Tim Pearce.
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