Freeth Cartwright wins training award
FREETH CARTWRIGHT WINS TRAINING AWARD
Award-winning law firm Freeth Cartwright has won yet another accolade, this time for its quality training procedures for graduate recruits.
The Fifth Annual LawCareers.Net Training & Recruitment Awards have just recently taken place at Forbes House in London, to recognise the best recruiters and trainers among law firms.
Trainees and newly-qualified solicitors were invited to complete an online survey assessing their own experiences and Freeth Cartwright took the Best Trainer - National/ Large Regional Firm award, beating well-known national firms in the process.
LawCareers.Net publisher Matthew Broadbent said: “The LawCareers.Net TARAs, now in their fifth year, are a fully established part of the legal landscape. They offer a generation of candidates crucial insights into which organisations really get their training and recruitment right.
“All the trainees surveyed for this year’s awards are familiar with the TARAs from their days of searching for a contract, and this biggest ever turnout of over 3,000 respondents underlines the significance of the results for the next crop of candidates.”
Freeth Cartwright’s head of human resources, Carole Wigley (pictured), collected the award on behalf of the firm, which has offices in Nottingham, Derby, Leicester, Birmingham and Manchester.
Carole commented: “It’s fantastic to know that we are doing something of such good quality and to be recognised for doing it. It’s pleasing to know that our trainees and newly-qualified solicitors think so highly of our training policies and procedures.”
Clare Carpenter, who will qualify as a solicitor in September, said: “The training is very bespoke, comprehensive and there’s a lot of one-to-one training and guidance, group training sessions and away days. Because Freeth Cartwright is a leading regional law firm and only has a small annual intake of trainees, it has the resources to offer attention to the individual and that, for me, is what marks it out as different.”
Earlier this year, Freeth Cartwright was named as one of the 100 Best Companies to Work For by the Sunday Times.
ends - 16 July 2008