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Training and education: Lessons for the future

By Legal Week | March 18, 2009

Last week we unveiled to our future trainees what we see as a groundbreaking approach in their development: a fully-fledged MBA me with BPP's Business School. Why is Simmons & Simmons doing this? Given the current economic climate, there was a need to give real consideration to our staffing needs. As a firm we actively manage our business, and ensuring that we have the right number of trainees at the right time is key to this. This year presented a unique challenge, given the changes in the market that have occurred since hiring our 2010 trainees. At the end of last year we asked our March 2009 intake if they would like to consider deferring. Many firms now seem to be thinking along the same lines for their September 2009 intake.

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Training and education: Training partners

By Legal Week | March 18, 2009

I am just coming up to the end of my first term as managing partner of Rickerbys, a 19-partner, Cheltenham-based practice serving both commercial and private clients throughout our region. Despite the challenges brought on by the current economic climate and the pace of change resulting from the Legal Services Act (LSA), I am looking forward to my second term.Prior to being appointed managing partner, I had spent the previous 15 years as a fee earner and subsequently partner in the corporate and commercial team at the firm. I had little prior knowledge or experience of management other than of a small group of fee earners and my secretary.

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Training and education: E for education

By Legal Week | March 18, 2009

Staff training and development is a necessary element of any industry, but its role within the legal profession is paramount. Be it professional skills development, keeping up to date with changing law and legislation, new employee induction or the infamous health and safety awareness, training can require huge amounts of investment, both in terms of time and financially. It is essential that employees are provided with the training necessary to perform their roles effectively and meet compliance requirements. But to ensure staff development is effective, and doesn't cost the earth, what measures need to be in place to make sure you're getting the most from your training spend? And what does the future of training in the legal profession hold in terms of learning methods and approaches?

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Training and education: The learning curve

By Legal Week | March 18, 2009

It is a truism that lawyers are the ultimate knowledge workers. In maintaining that position the depth and, importantly, the currency, of a lawyer's understanding form the knowledge bedrock on which their practice is built. However, how lawyers learn and what they learn is changing. Externally, in-house counsel and the organisations that employ them are reviewing their roles.A recent review of training needs shows the pressure on in-housecounsel - as a result of the recent economic upheavals and subsequent corporate insolvencies - to take a wider role as an active risk manager, who is also expected to be the guardian of a company's ethics and its reputation. Where this results in a seat on the main board, the role is no longer that of the traditional detached and reactive legal adviser.

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Pinsents starts UAE law student training scheme

By Legal Week | December 03, 2008

Pinsent Masons has teamed up with the United Arab Emirates University to give local law students a chance to train with the firm in the UK. The firm has operated in Dubai since 2004 and will offer UAE University College of Law students the chance to develop skills across areas including commercial, property, outsourcing and Dubai law. The scheme, initially limited to two students, is not a full training contract but will run between January and February and June and July. Students will spend the rest of the summer in one of the firm's UK offices.

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Camerons and CMS bolster training options

By Charlotte Edmond | November 28, 2008

CMS Cameron McKenna and its European alliance firms are set to roll out a training course for partners and associates, in the latest effort to increase unity across the network. From next March, partners and associates at all nine CMS firms can sign up for a series of week-long training courses run by business school IMD.The course, aimed at boosting lawyers' commercial knowledge, will be run in modules, similar to a mini-MBA, through the group's existing 'CMS academy'.

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Camerons and CMS bolster training options

By Charlotte Edmond | November 27, 2008

CMS Cameron McKenna and its European alliance firms are set to roll out a training course for partners and associates, in the latest effort to increase unity across the network. From next March, partners and associates at all nine CMS firms can sign up for a series of week-long training courses run by business school IMD.The course, aimed at boosting lawyers' commercial knowledge, will be run in modules, similar to a mini-MBA, through the group's existing 'CMS academy'.

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Kaplan secures tie-up with training provider

By Legal Week | July 25, 2008

Education provider Kaplan Professional has extended its legal offering after acquiring Altior, a specialist in post-qualification legal training, it was announced yesterday (24 July) The acquisition follows the launch in London last year of Nottingham Law at Kaplan Law School, which specialises in the Legal Practice Course (LPC) and the Graduate Diploma in Law, as well as extending in to legal professional development by acquiring Hawksmere.

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Elite law schools sign up Camerons and Barlows as duo carve up market

By Ben Wheway | August 02, 2006

College of Law and BPP fight for supremacy as firms scramble for LPC deals; Olswang and Macfarlanes review providers

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Elite law schools sign up Camerons and Barlows as duo carve up market

By Ben Wheway | August 02, 2006

College of Law and BPP fight for supremacy as firms scramble for LPC deals; Olswang and Macfarlanes review providers

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