After a period of draught, trainee intake at Iberia's
leading firms is on the up once again as workloads increase
Growing workloads in Spain and Portugal resulted in an increase
in the intake of trainees at leading Iberian law firms in 2015.
Data supplied by the major firms in the two countries showed that
trainee intake grew by up to 86 per cent in Spain, while some of
the leading firms in Portugal almost tripled their trainee intake
in the last 12 months.
Uría Menéndez attributed the growth in trainee intake
to the "increase in activity" since 2014. Similarly,
Baker & McKenzie said it upped its number of trainees in the
last year due to the improvement in Spain's economy and the
subsequent "notable increase in office workload". Though
Pérez-Llorca took fewer trainees in 2015, it says its intake
in 2014 was particularly high due to an increase in work
volume.
