Training Contract/Traineeship/Graduate Solicitor Apprenticeship

Please note: These roles are for a September 2025 start.

Our trainee programmes will provide you with excellent training and experience across seats in different areas of the business, which will include everything which is required for your qualification to solicitor. During this time, you will be given the opportunity to complete a range of different work with a robust support network of supervision and mentoring.

You can apply to complete our training contract if you are currently studying towards, or have completed, the Legal Practice Course (LPC). If you have not yet commenced the LPC, you can become a trainee solicitor by following our graduate solicitor apprenticeship pathway to qualification.

For Scotland, you can apply to complete a traineeship in our Glasgow office. Our 24-month training programme will provide you with excellent training and experience across four six-month seats in different areas of the business, which will include the PEAT2 outcomes which are required for your qualification to solicitor.

Prior to commencing your training, you will be required to undertake the Professional Education & Training (PEAT1) course. If you successfully gain a position to commence in 2025, and have not yet enrolled on a PEAT1 course, we will fund the cost of postgraduate tuition at the university of your choice.

We are looking for a specific type of individual who will fit in well with our ethos and culture. Our trainee programmes will be an intense path, so we are looking for those who are passionate about law and committed to a career as a solicitor. You will need to show that you are a resilient individual, with the drive and determination to succeed for our clients.

Our aim is that our qualified solicitors will possess the below competencies as they progress through and complete their programme.

• Reasons and problem solves effectively with complex data and information and learns quickly
• Plans, organises, prioritises and manages resources and time
• IT literate
• Has a strong commercial focus
• Emotionally resilient, mature and positive when the going gets tough
• Customer-centric — both internal and external
• Flexible and adaptable
• Demonstrates integrity
• Is achievement-driven, shows initiative, takes responsibility with a ‘can do’
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• Committed to continuous improvement
• Attends to the detail and is quality minded
• Self‐aware — knows own strengths and weaknesses
• Demonstrates effective communication both verbally and in writing
• Assertive and socially confident
• Influential and persuasive
• Team player and team builder who networks effectively
• Diplomatic, tactful and empathic
• Interpersonally skilled, reads people and situations and then adapts accordingly
• Aware of and propagates a positive and professional image and persona