The Law Society Gazette reports that city firms are marking Social Mobility Day with the official launch of an initiative to boost the number of solicitor-apprentices in the capital: City Century.
50 firms have signed up to the City of London Law Society’s City Century initiative. The programme, designed to identify, attract, recruit, educate, qualify and develop committed solicitor-apprentices.
The firms who have signed up to this initiative are:
- Addleshaw Goddard
- Allen & Overy
- Ashurst
- Bates Wells
- BDB Pitmans
- Bird & Bird
- Blake Morgan (2025)
- Bristows
- Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
- Charles Russell Speechlys
- Clyde & Co
- CMS
- DAC Beachcroft
- Dentons
- DWF
- DLA Piper (UK)
- Eversheds Sutherland
- Farrer & Co
- Fenchurch Law
- Fieldfisher
- Fox Williams
- Freshfields (2025)
- Gowling WLG (UK)
- Herbert Smith Freehills (2025)
- HFW
- Hogan Lovells
- Kennedys
- Linklaters
- Mayer Brown
- Mishcon de Reya
- Osborne Clarke
- Pinsent Masons
- Reed Smith (2025)
- Schillings
- Simmons & Simmons
- Squire Patton Boggs
- Stephenson Harwood
- Taylor Wessing
- Travers Smith (2025)
- Trowers & Hamlins (2025)
- Watson Farley & Williams (2025)
- Wedlake Bell
- Weil Gotshal & Manges
- White & Case (2025)
- Wiggin
Find out more about the City Century Initiative here.
