Students hoping to secure a place on a vacation scheme next year may face an uphill struggle as competition intensifies dramatically. A number of law firms have scrapped their schemes altogether, while others have reduced the amount of places available.
Allen & Overy closed its 2009 Easter vacation scheme and will keep it suspended for 2010. Lovells has reduced its usual vacation schemes to two three-week summer schemes and a series of work-shadowing days - replacing the firm's Christmas and Easter placements. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has cancelled its usual three-week Easter scheme, leaving only the firm's summer placement, while CMS Cameron McKenna will no longer be holding its Christmas programme. Eversheds and Field Fisher Waterhouse have both put graduate recruitment on hold until 2010, cancelling all their summer placements.
Law Careers Network, September 09
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