Chelsy Davy accepts A&O training contract
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Prince Harrys former girlfriend Chelsy Davy has bagged a training contract at magic circle law firm Allen & Overy (A&O).
Prince Harrys former squeeze Chelsy Davy (pictured) has bagged a training contract at magic circle law firm Allen & Overy (A&O).
Zimbabwe-born Davy, who has an Economics degree from the University of Capetown, will join A&O after completing her Legal Practice Course (LPC) at the College of Law (CoL).
The 23-year-old is currently studying a postgraduate law course at the University of Leeds and has already notched up vacation schemes at A&O the Queens law firm Farrer & Co, as first reported on Lawyer2B.com last December (10 December 2008).
CoL chief executive Nigel Savage is looking forward to Davy joining. He said: Im delighted that she has chosen to do her training contract with a first-rate establishment like A&O. It means she can have the highest quality training with us.
The heiress will pocket a starting salary of around 37,000 going up to approximately 65,000 when she qualifies. A&O also offers a 7,000 maintenance grant to students for their LPC year.
Davy reportedly ended her relationship with Harry, 24, after the couple returned from a holiday on the island of Mauritius a few weeks ago.
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Readers' comments (65)
Anonymous | 4-Feb-2009 10:27 am
match in heaven
The perfect little firm for a perfect little girl!
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Anonymous | 4-Feb-2009 10:41 am
Headline news?
I wish I got a write-up in the Lawyer when I accepted my training contract...
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Anon. | 4-Feb-2009 11:34 am
Is this news?
Does anyone care?
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anon. | 4-Feb-2009 12:02 pm
You three do
...obviously.
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Anonymous | 4-Feb-2009 12:05 pm
News
Is this a news?
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Anonymous | 4-Feb-2009 12:49 pm
Yes indeed
to poster below - you read the story didn't you?
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Prince Harry's Fancy Dress Adviser | 4-Feb-2009 1:57 pm
Cheap Advertising
This is a prime example of Royal connections aiding and inflating the career of somebody who is probably no better than some of the rejected candidates who attended a better University.
From A & O's perspective, they have secured phenomenal brand exposure (via Sky News, the BBC etc) for the measley cost of a trainee's wage for two years. Good luck to Chelsy; the added pressure of colleagues and rivals having an even greater incentive to prove they are better is not something I would welcome.
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Anonymous | 4-Feb-2009 2:07 pm
Good on her
Glad she's binned the Royal and is proving that she has brains....... don't know how she's going to cope on that salary though - think Daddy will have to pad it out with the trust fund.....!
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Anonymous | 4-Feb-2009 4:17 pm
Isn't that expected?
At a time when candidates who have qualified from the ebst unibversities are being rejected and made to wait for at least 2/3 years before even getting a slight hope of a training contract, the fact that Miss Davy secures a training contract with A & O is of no surprise. Very obviously, the firm has planned it well as her contacts will promise the firm multi million pounds deals... Merit does not matter..connections, position very much do...
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Anonymous | 4-Feb-2009 4:20 pm
Ridiculous
No doubt it's more to do with who she is rather than her actual ability.
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