Advocates choice ; ;The College of Law has lost out on two lucrative advocacy training ;contracts from magic circle firms to ;Nottingham law school. ;Linklaters chose Nottingham for all its advocacy training, including its new own-brand advanced qualification the Linklaters advocacy diploma. ;Rival post-graduate legal training providers pitched for the contract after Linklaters offered its litigators an advanced advocacy qualification. ;Freshfields has also opted for Nottingham for advanced advocacy training. And other leading firms are understood to be considering bids from advocacy training providers. Nottinghams dean Peter Jones, said: Most of the major law firms have a similar strategy. Thats the way the market is going. ;Both firms also chose Nottingham, BPP and the Oxford Institute of Legal Practice, to provide the planned City legal practice course. ;Before the decision to outsource all advocacy training to Nottingham, Linklaters also used the College of Law for the one-year higher rights course. Linklaters head of advocacy Mark Humphries said the course would run as modules, and would be open to litigators from other departments although not from other firms. ;The College of Law has signed a similar deal with CMS Cameron McKenna and has won Law Society approval to run a higher rights qualification course under the new advocacy rules, which came into force last month. ;Anne Mizzi ; ; ;