Norton Rose hunts for Indian trainees
Norton Rose hunts for Indian trainees" />Norton Rose has opened its trainee programme to newly qualified Indian lawyers and is recruiting directly from India.
The firm’s graduate recruitment partner Sam Eastwood (pictured) said Norton Rose had gone directly to several Indian colleges to recruit between three and five trainees for the 2010 intake.
“Foreign lawyers can be very dynamic when put against UK students only studying law because their fathers told them to, and they also know the meaning of hard work,” said Eastwood. “So we’re trying to be more proactive by engaging with colleges and opening up trainee recruitment to Indian-qualified lawyers.”
Eastwood added that, while it was not necessary to put Indian lawyers through a trainee scheme, as they can sit the qualification transfer exam, the firm wanted to provide them with the same opportunities as English-qualified lawyers.
The move follows that of global law firms into the Indian recruitment market.
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Anonymous | 20-Oct-2008 10:37 am
Outrageous!
How is it that Norton Rose is able to go outside of the EU to recruit trainees/lawyers. I thought the new government policy meant that this was illegal unless the firm is unable to locate suitable lawyers from within the EU. Given the huge competition for training contracts within the UK, and the diverse talent available within the EU, surely Norton Rose can find enough suitable candidates from the EU. Why look outside? What is the motivation here??
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Anonymous | 20-Oct-2008 11:35 am
they are above all
Yeah but they are lawyers i'n it? they can recruit out of jurisdiction and send them here for secondment
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Mathew | 20-Oct-2008 11:37 am
Not outrageous
Norton Rose is perfectly right in recruiting newly qualified indian lawyers. If they are looking to advise on Indian laws and understand better the Indian Market, who do you think they will recruit: Italian Lawyers?
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Anonymous | 20-Oct-2008 12:09 pm
Cost Savings!!
I heard they can post them anywhere and that they are more willing to re-locate to the places that UK Solicitors are not willing to go.
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Con Fused | 20-Oct-2008 12:41 pm
Another Tick
Another tick in the diversity box - whilst pushing out UK born ethnic minorities... doesn't make sense!!
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abc | 20-Oct-2008 3:30 pm
doent matter
the firm only has to show that the people they are looking fro are not awailable in the eu by putting up ads n all...if they put up an ad for an indian lawyer + newly qualified....ur not gonna get them in the EU are you ?
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Anonymous | 20-Oct-2008 4:46 pm
Not fair!
As if there is a shortage of hard-working trainees here! Isn't Eastwood saying UK educated trainees aren't hard working enough? there is a wide pool of potential talent here, and from ethnic minorities. Is this just to save costs?
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Anonymous | 20-Oct-2008 4:46 pm
Have you read the article?
Mathew, have you actually read this article? it says nothing about recruiting Indian solicitors to work on Indian law, they are being recruited because Norton Rose doesn't seem to think UK/EU solicitors are good enough, i.e they don't know about hard work, and are in law because their parents told them to go into it (see quote from their recruitment partner).
In reality Norton Rose probably want people who are less likely to complain about long hours and a lack of work life balance.
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L. Wolenska | 20-Oct-2008 4:52 pm
What's wrong with this firm?
Haven't they HEARD of Poland?
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indian guy | 21-Oct-2008 11:09 am
no surprise
is tht really a surprise??
norton rose is probably even late. CC, Links, A&O, Simmons, SJ Berwin and CMS hav all been recruiting trainees directly from india for years now.
and this is all meant to tap the burgeoning indian market..simple!
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