We give you meaningful responsibility, clear feedback and time to grow at a pace that feels right.
Partners and associates share time and know-how because your progress lifts everyone. You will be involved in live client work within weeks, gaining responsibility step by step while knowing a mentor is close by.
Placement students draft board minutes. Trainees negotiate clauses. You will not be an observer - you will be part of the team that solves problems for clients and learns from every decision.
Frequent feedback loops, redlined documents and monthly reviews turn lessons into confidence.
Everyone works hard and that effort is noticed. When you push yourself, your team will celebrate the result with you.
Paralegal style role that embeds you into one or two teams.
Two six-month seats plus SQE1 prep and exam (firm funded).
Two more seats plus SQE2 prep and exam. Pass and qualify.
Legal 500 Future Lawyers UK-wide top 20 winner 2025/26 in seven categories, including 2nd for Social Life, 3rd for both Client Contact and Job Satisfaction and 5th for Quality of Client Contact. These awards matter because they are based on feedback from trainees like you.
Our modern offices sit minutes from award‑winning beaches and marinas, with lively town centres. Lunch on the sand, after‑work paddle‑board, or join the sea‑swim club that meets before the day begins.
We recruit two to three trainees each September and are welcoming applications currently for a 2027 and 2028 start.
We're also recruiting for our 2026 summer vacation scheme and our 2026/27 placement year.
We're accepting applications for our training programmes starting in September 2027 and September 2028.
To apply, by Thursday 30 April 2026, complete our application form and email this to Trainee Recruitment.
Each year we seek one or two enthusiastic students, keen to pursue a career in law, to join us for our 40-week LLB Undergraduate Placement Scheme, starting in September.
We have closed applications for our September 2026 placement year.
Our application process will reopen in Autumn 2026 for our September 2027 intake.
Based in our Bournemouth offices for the week of 6th July 2026, we will provide you with the opportunity to work under the guidance of experienced lawyers, to see what they do and understand more about the area of law they’re passionate about.
If you would like to apply and you are either a LLB undergraduate, or are finishing your Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL), email your covering letter, by 31 March 2026, and CV to Trainee Recruitment. Within your covering letter, you should share:
To ensure we can give anyone joining us a really good experience, regrettably we currently reserve our work experience placements for undergraduate students only.
