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Ready to dive into life at a law firm? Our paid apprenticeships provide a unique insight into a wide range of legal careers, kick-starting your professional journey.
Our supportive, collaborative culture will help you develop your professional and personal skills, with guidance from other team members on how to successfully ride the waves on your journey with the firm.
An apprenticeship will give you practical insight into a career and help you to develop transferable skills that will be valued in any profession. Strengthen your CV with hands-on work experience, helping you to build commercial acumen, self-awareness, commitment and initiative.
As a member of the legal sector Trailblazer group, we helped to shape new apprenticeship standards and were one of the first firms to offer paralegal and solicitor apprenticeships.
With our renowned teaching and experience, competitive starting salaries above national living wage, and opportunities to learn from experts, why not take the leap with Burges Salmon?
As of September 2024, we have a total of 28 apprentices
As part of the legal trailblazer group we helped design the new paralegal and solicitor apprenticeship standards
We launched our first legal apprenticeship scheme
The introduction of the business professional apprenticeship
Our legal apprenticeship programme offers you the opportunity to qualify as a solicitor. Based in our Bristol office, you will complete the Level 3 Paralegal and Level 7 Solicitor apprenticeships over a period of six years – the same time frame as completing a law degree, SQE and training contract. Each year, we take on four legal apprentices to start their journey to qualification as a solicitor.
With our programme, you will spend four days a week working at the firm and one day studying towards a formal legal qualification. Throughout the apprenticeship, you will work across our legal departments, gaining the invaluable breadth of experience you need to succeed as a qualified lawyer.
Our legal apprenticeships are delivered in tandem with BPP University, where in your first two years you will work towards a Level 3 Paralegal Apprenticeship and Certificate in Legal Practice. This helps you decide if law is the right career for you, before diving into the solicitor programme at a later stage.
Those who wish to continue with their studies can continue on to the Level 7 Solicitor programme and achieve a law degree as part of the path to qualification. Through this, you will complete the Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE).
You will be earning from day one, with your salary scaling up each year:
Alongside our legal apprenticeships, we have previously taken apprentices into the Finance, Marketing, Project Management and IT teams in our Bristol office. Between two to four years in duration, our business apprenticeships allow you to make a splash, with the opportunity to continue working with us after your apprenticeship ends.
Unlike the legal apprenticeship, the level of apprenticeship and programme of study is not set, and instead varies from department to department, with some areas offering integrated degree apprenticeships. Sign up below for the latest updates on business professional apprentice opportunities.
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We are a Disability Confident Leader via government accreditation, which means we have tested and strengthened our recruitment and people processes, to ensure that our employment opportunities are inclusive and welcoming to people with disabilities or long-term health conditions.
We utilise Rare Contextual across all our recruitment processes to contextualise candidates’ success in comparison to their background and socio-economic position.
Our Resourcing team facilitates adjustments to our recruitment processes for any candidates who require them, so we can offer equitable experiences. We also have support from a disability specialist organisation to ensure we follow best practice.
