Solicitor Apprentice (Salary £28,000) - GRADUATES ONLY

TRETHOWANS LLP

Southampton, SO30 2AF

Closes in 15 days (Friday 15 November)

Posted on 25 October 2024

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Summary

This role offers the opportunity for immediate exposure to high quality work from day one and provides excellent opportunities for career progression. As a Solicitor Apprentice you will provide clients of the Firm with a professional legal service of a high standard and provide support for the other Lawyers in the Corporate Team.

Annual wage
£28,000 a year

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Training course
Solicitor (level 7)
Hours
Monday - Friday from 9.00am - 5.00pm

35 hours a week

Possible start date

Tuesday 23 September

Duration

1 year 6 months

Positions available

1

Work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

Upon successful completion of your probationary period you will be enrolled to undertake the Solicitor Apprenticeship (18 month course). As a Solicitor Apprentice you will learn the theory necessary to pursue a career in the law, building your commercial awareness and practical involvement whilst working within a law firm. You will have access to advice and mentorship from skilled Partners, Solicitors and other areas from within the firm.

You will be expected to spend approximately 20% of your working week studying, while the other 80% of your week will be spent working within our Banking & Finance Team, receiving real-life experience of legal matters.

Main Responsibilities:

  • Drafting, negotiating and amending legal documents;
  • Conducting legal research
  • Managing files for legal matters
  • Completing administrative duties and compliance processes
  • Preparing advice and communicating with clients

Company Benefits:

  • Generous holiday entitlement, increasing after three years continuous service up to a maximum of 28 days
  • Additional holiday around your birthday and Christmas
  • Rewarding Bonus Scheme
  • Pension Scheme
  • Income protection scheme
  • Health care cash plan scheme
  • Death in service provision
  • Free legal services for conveyancing and wills
  • Free car parking
  • Professional membership and subscription fees
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Cycle to work scheme.
  • Discounted gym rates
  • Online retail discounts
  • Work anniversary rewards.
  • Internal recruitment bonus rewards
  • Enhanced maternity and paternity pay policies

Where you’ll work

The Pavilion, Botleigh Grange Business Park, Hedge End

Southampton

SO30 2AF

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

DAMAR LIMITED

Your training course

Solicitor (level 7)

Equal to master’s degree

Course contents
  • Obtain relevant facts by effective questioning and active listening.
  • Find, analyse, and assess documents to extract relevant information including recognising when additional information is needed , interpreting and evaluating information obtained, recording and presenting information accurately and clearly.
  • Recognise when legal research is needed and use appropriate methods and resources including identifying, finding and assessing the relevance of sources of law, interpreting, evaluating and applying research results, recording and presenting findings of research accurately and clearly.
  • Develop strategies and solutions including an understanding of a client’s commercial and personal circumstances, their needs, objectives, priorities and constraints.
  • Provide advice which is informed by appropriate and factual legal analysis and identifying the consequences of different options.
  • Draft documents from scratch and use precedents which address all legal and factual issues, complying with all formalities and using clear, accurate and succinct language.
  • Undertake effective spoken and written advocacy in court and outside of formal court hearings including: effective preparation by identifying and mastering relevant facts and legal principles, organize facts to support an argument or position, present a reasoned argument in a clear, logical, succinct persuasive way, make appropriate references to legal authority, comply with formalities, deal with witnesses appropriately, respond effectively to questions or opposing arguments, identify strengths and weaknesses from different parties’ perspectives.
  • Negotiate solutions to clients’ issues including: identify all parties’ interests, objectives and limits, developing and formulating best options for meeting parties’ objectives, presenting options for compromises persuasively, responding to options presented by the other side, developing compromises between options or parties.
  • Plan and manage legal cases and transactions including applying relevant processes and procedures to progress matters effectively, assessing, communicating and managing risk, bringing a transaction or case to a conclusion.

    • Your training plan

    • Solicitor Level 7 Apprenticeship Standard

    Requirements

    Essential qualifications

    GCSE or equivalent in:

    • Maths and English (grade 9-4/A*-C or above)
    • Law Degree or have completed the GDL or CILEx L6 (grade Pass)

    Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

    Skills

    • Communication skills
    • IT skills
    • Attention to detail
    • Organisation skills
    • Customer care skills
    • Problem solving skills
    • Analytical skills
    • Logical
    • Team working
    • Initiative

    Other requirements

    Damar is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our apprentices and expects our employer partners to share this commitment and to take appropriate steps to ensure that learning takes place in a safe, healthy and supportive environment.

    About this company

    Trethowans, one of The Times Best Law Firms 2023, and one of the 100 Great Places to Work 2023, was named as one of the UK’s fastest growing independent law firms (The Lawyer) and offers a comprehensive range of services for businesses and individual clients. It has more than 250 members of staff, including over 80 lawyers and 45 partners, who act for many international and national household brand names (including Jewson, Ladbrokes, Pizza Hut and Nandos to name a few) and a variety of individual clients throughout the UK. Trethowans now operates out of six locations, with offices in Salisbury, Southampton, Poole, Bournemouth and Winchester as well as a serviced office in London

    https://www.trethowans.com/ (opens in new tab)

    After this apprenticeship

    • More than ‘just a job’. There is plenty of opportunities for individuals to develop and grow their career at Trethowans. Many of their Partners and lawyers are former trainees having gone through our comprehensive training programme
    • Their internal TOP (‘Trethowans Opportunities for Progression’) programme provides an achievable framework which sets out the criteria for promotion from newly qualified to Associate, Senior Associate and Partner

    Ask a question

    The contact for this apprenticeship is:

    DAMAR LIMITED

    Sabina Adam

    Sabina.Adam@damartraining.com

    07566 289 979

    The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000284102.

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    Closes in 15 days (Friday 15 November)

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