After lying dormant for the past year, the legal recruitment market is once again showing signs of life. However opinion is divided as to whether it will ever reach the lofty heights that lawyers grew accustomed to before the GFC.

Cost cutting has been rampant across the legal sector, but summer clerkship recruitment is one area in which firms are holding strong. In return, prospective summer clerks are remaining quietly confident about their career prospects, Zoe Lyon reports