Allen & Overy to advocate training as it quits alliance

Allen & Overy to advocate training as it quits alliance

Allen & Overy is quitting the City advocacy training consortium in a move to train all of its UK litigators for higher rights of audience.

All litigators with advocacy and pleadings experience will apply for advocacy licences via the accreditation or exemption route laid out in the Higher Courts Qualification Regulations 2000.

Any necessary training will be provided in-house by the College of Law.

All other litigation lawyers will take part in a two-week training programme also run by the college.

The training scheme will replace the advocacy courses run since 1995 by a consortium of eight top City firms.

The other members are Clifford Chance, Freshfields, Herbert Smith, Linklaters, Lovells, Norton Rose and Slaughter and May.Andrew Clark, managing partner of the litigation department, said: A wider knowledge and experience of advocacy across our department will considerably enhance the services we can offer our clients.Neil Rose