Travers Smith will keep on 17 of its 19 qualifiers this autumn, a retention rate of 89.5 per cent.
Five of the 17 will take up newly-qualified (NQ) roles in the dispute resolution team. Two will join the funds team and another two will go to corporate M&A. The final eight have secured roles in commercial; derivatives; employment; finance; financial services; private equity; pensions; and real estate.
All 17 are on permanent, rather than fixed-term, contracts.
Travers is the fourth firm to reveal its trainee retention figures for the autumn, after Sidley Austin, Mills & Reeve and CMS.
| Autumn 2020 retention so far | Trainees retained | Fixed term contract | Trainees left | Total number of qualifiers | Percentage retained |
| Sidley Austin | 10 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 100.0 |
| Travers Smith | 17 | 0 | 2 | 19 | 89.5 |
| Mills & Reeve | 15 | 1 | 2 | 18 | 88.9 |
| CMS | 44 | 0 | 17 | 61 | 72.1 |
