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Originally from Legal Marketing magazine vol 2 Issue 3: Graduate recruitment in law firms around the world ranges from being very organised and systematic to being completely unstructured and ad hoc. A lot depends on the size of the firm, the type of practice and the culture of the country where the firm is located. Having recently been involved in setting up a graduate-recruitment programme for an international law firm in Moscow, I thought it perhaps fitting to offer some suggestions in the event you are ever challenged to start up a graduate-recruitment function for an evolving or new market, or need ideas to 'perk up' your current recruiting process.

Not in full agreement

Entire agreements clauses will only be effective if the wording is sufficiently clear and wide in scope, say Eamonn Mcnamara and Michael Twomey

Life in crime

Francis FitzGibbon explains that the IPP regime may have the opposite effect to what was intended

Compensation magic

Finally the House of Lords has addressed the question of the calculation of compensation for terminating an agency agreement, says Stephen Sidkin

Update: local government

Christopher Baker considers the new model code of conduct for members, bias and pre-determination, and negligence liability and human rights

Statute barred

Adrian Oliver considers the conflicting approach of the Law Lords when a litigant faces the prospect of being denied access to the court system

Carry the costs

Litigants should be able to claim their own preparation costs, argues James Ross

Simply the best

Is legal recruitment a form of Russian roulette? Geoff Wild explains how to find the best staff