Graduate Trainee Solicitor Apprentice (Woodfords Solicitors LLP)
R K BERRY & R WILKINSON
London (SW6 4QP)
Closes in 24 days (Monday 28 April 2025)
Posted on 24 March 2025
Contents
Summary
We are looking to recruit a Solicitor Apprentice. This is an excellent opportunity to join a supportive training environment with a manageable workload alongside friendly and understanding colleagues in a firm with the very best staff retention rates.
- Wage
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£28,000 a year
- Training course
- Solicitor (level 7)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday.
Shifts to be confirmed.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Wednesday 7 May 2025
- Duration
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2 years 6 months
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you’ll do at work
We are a full-service law firm with a diverse client base. All our staff work from our office in Fulham.
You will either have completed the Legal Practice Couse and will undertake a period of recognised training or completed the Solicitors Qualifying Exams and will undertake a period of qualifying work experience. Please note that a law degree or PGDL is not essential if you have already completed and performed well in SQE1 and SQE2.
If you have not completed the LPC or the SQE route we offer the programme set out below to those with a Law Degree or a non-law Degree with a Law Conversion Course (PGDL). This programme is funded by Woodfords with time off required for study.
SQE Route to Qualification - Graduate Trainee Solicitor.
Our Graduate Trainee Solicitor Programme lasts 30-32 months. It helps you prepare for the SQE 1 and 2 exams while gaining two years of qualifying legal experience. We partner with a training provider to support your studies, prepare you for assessments, and guide you through the exams.
Trainees shall work at our office in Fulham throughout this entire period and take one day a week to study throughout the entire programme. You will sit the SQE 1 assessment during the second year of the programme, and the SQE 2 assessment within the last six months.
Duties:
- Liaise with clients. We like to encourage client contact at the outset
- Conduct of legal matters with oversight from training principle
- Drafting legal documents to include applications and contracts
Where you’ll work
11 Harwood Road
London
SW6 4QP
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
BPP PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION 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.
- 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
More training information
As a Solicitor apprentice with BPP, you will complete the Solicitor Level 7 Apprenticeship. Additional learning within the apprenticeship at levels 4, 5 and 6 will enable you to be awarded an LLB (Hons) Law and Legal Practice, from BPP.
Your Level 7 apprenticeship shall be delivered by a blend of online and face-to-face from BPP [alongside our award-winning internal training]. Coupled with the on-the-job learning, completion of the apprenticeship will lead to obtaining your solicitor qualification.
The apprenticeship standard is based on the SRA’s Statement of Solicitor Competence. Achievement of the standard and the associated apprenticeship assessment plan will satisfy the SRA’s regulatory framework for qualification as a solicitor, subject to the SRA’s usual tests of character and suitability.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- 5 GCSE's including English and Maths (grade (A*-C/9-4 or equivalent))
Degree in:
- Law or nonlaw degree with PGDL (grade (A*-C/9-4))
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
- Attention to detail
- Written communication skills
- Interpersonal skills
- Negotiation skills
- Confident
About this company
We are a firm who has grown to become the largest single office multi-disciplinary practice in Fulham and Chelsea. Our objective is for our staff to provide a great service to the local high net worth community.
After this apprenticeship
Potential for a full-time role on completion.
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
BPP PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000311481.
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Closes in 24 days (Monday 28 April 2025)
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