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Tuesday 10 April 2007

If You Must Apply for a Training Contract, Look Here...

The list below is taken from The Lawyer magazine's annual top 100 survey. (Remember, you are strongly advised to start reading the The Lawyer if you don't already.)

The rankings are done on turnover, so Clifford Chance is not necessarily the 'best' firm, it is simply the biggest by turnover.

Although many firms have dedicated graduate recruitment websites, the links are to the main websites. You should kick the tyres and try to get a feel for each firm by looking at its main website as well as its graduate recruitment site (if it has one).

If you concentrate your efforts on getting a training contract with law firms on this list, you won't go too far wrong. All the firms on the list are very reputable places to do a training contract.

Having said that, you should also consider US and other foreign firms in London, and this list misses many smaller firms and great niche and/or boutique firms that are also great places to do a training contract.


1 Clifford Chance

2 Linklaters

3 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

4 Allen & Overy

5 Lovells

6 DLA Piper

7 Eversheds

8 Slaughter and May

9 Herbert Smith

10 Simmons & Simmons

11 Ashurst

12 Norton Rose

13 CMS Cameron McKenna

14 Pinsent Masons

15 Addleshaw Goddard

16 SJ Berwin

17 Denton Wilde Sapte

18 Berwin Leighton Paisner

19 Taylor Wessing

20 Hammonds

21 Clyde & Co

22 Irwin Mitchell

23 Nabarro Nathanson

24 Wragge & Co

25 Beachcroft Wansbroughs

26 Bird & Bird

27 Salans

28= Macfarlanes

28= Reed Smith Richards Butler

30 Barlow Lyde & Gilbert

31 Olswang

32 Shoosmiths

33 Osborne Clarke

34 Travers Smith

35 Withers

36 Lawrence Graham

37 Halliwells

38 Holman Fenwick & Willan

39 Stephenson Harwood

40 Field Fisher Waterhouse

41 Charles Russell

42 Trowers & Hamlins

43 Hill Dickinson

44 Burges Salmon

45 Cobbetts

46 Watson Farley & Williams

47 Dundas & Wilson

48 Reynolds Porter Chamberlain

49 McGrigors

50 Ince & Co

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