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Media release
Issued: Friday July 31st 2009
Last week, Kaplan Altior launched its exciting new Trainee Litigation Programme (TLP) for trainee solicitors to help them satisfy the contentious work and advocacy requirements of their training contract.
Having delivered the Professional Skills Course (the compulsory course for all trainee solicitors) since its inception, it made perfect sense for Kaplan Altior to offer this supplementary prequalification training. The decision to ‘go for it’ was made all the easier when an existing International law firm client suggested that Kaplan Altior should run the programme, adding that they would be delighted to commit their trainees to the course once it was up and running.
For firms which struggle to provide the right kind of contentious experience for all of their trainees, the TLP provides a practical, convenient and cost effective solution. Run intensively over a two week period, the programme comprises one week in a classroom working through a breach of commercial contract case study, followed by one week of practical experience at Kaplan’s new Legal Advice Centre, based at the premises of Kaplan Law School. The trainees are also given the opportunity to represent members of the public as McKenzie friends in Magistrates’ Court hearings, thus ensuring that they also gain valuable and high quality advocacy experience whilst on the programme.
This scheme is a very exciting move for Kaplan Altior and, with a healthy number of trainees from two large international firms enrolled on the first programme, it is already showing signs of success.
For more information about the Trainee Litigation Programme, please visit www.altior.co.uk/trainee_litigation_programme or call Barbara Anderson, Business Development Director on 029 2045 1000. |
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