Newly Qualified Solicitor

Join Burges Salmon as a Newly-Qualified Solicitor

Are you qualifying as a Solicitor this year and looking to make your mark in the legal world? At Burges Salmon, we're looking to add to our cohort of internal qualifiers for September 2025. As an ambitious and growing firm, we will have opportunities for talented Solicitors to join us and help deliver exceptional legal services across a variety of our sectors and practice areas. While the specific vacancies are as yet unconfirmed, we expect to recruit Newly-Qualified Solicitors across a wide range of practice areas. These may include:

• Dispute Resolution
• Banking & Finance
• Projects
• Corporate/Commercial
• Real Estate
• Tax (including Domestic, International and Corporate)
• Planning
• Pensions
• Employment
• Construction & Engineering

With your application, please provide an indication of the practice area you would like to join. Please note that selection processes and interviews will begin from May onwards. Once we have established where our internal qualifiers will be joining, we will have a confirmed list of vacancies.

Why join us?

Our lawyers operate and advise at the forefront of their specialist sectors. As a Lawyer at Burges Salmon, you could work at the cutting edge of emerging technologies, shape the commercial landscape by combining legal and transactional expertise, advise on major infrastructure, energy and development projects that shape the way in which people live or deliver for clients in their time of need with a pragmatic approach to complex litigation and contentious commercial cases.

You will benefit from a fair and transparent development and progression plan, working with industry leaders and enjoying a high level of involvement in complex and rewarding legal work.

To find out more click here to download our Career Guide for Lawyers.

What we offer:

• A dynamic and supportive work environment
• Opportunities for professional growth
• A commitment to diversity, inclusion and responsible business practices
• Competitive compensation and benefits

What you'll need:

• Relevant experience in the practice area in which you are looking to qualify
• Strong team player with excellent interpersonal skills
• Ability to manage a complex and varied workload effectively
• Self-motivated and willing to learn
• Must be qualifying as a Solicitor with the SRA or Law Society of Scotland in 2025.

About Burges Salmon

Our six core values – Ambition, Collaboration, Commitment, Fairness, Quality and Respect - are at the heart of everything we do and help to shape our unique culture. As well as high quality work and exciting development opportunities, we offer our people a professional, friendly and sociable working environment with a real sense of community.

A full overview of all the benefits of working at Burges Salmon can be found on the 'working at Burges Salmon' section of our careers page.

We are delighted to have been named RollOnFriday's 'Best Law Firm to Work At' 2025, for the fourth year in a row, and also named as one of The Times Top 50 Employers for Women 2023.  Our commitment to excellence has recently been recognised by the IIP, which awarded us Platinum certification for investment in people.

It's important to us that our organisation represents the diverse community in which we operate and we encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and identities. As a Disability Confident Leader we will provide a fully accessible recruitment process and offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job.

For any questions regarding the role, or to discuss any reasonable adjustments, please contact Katarina Athanasakos at [email protected]

If you're ready to take the next step in your legal career and join a firm that values excellence, integrity, and teamwork, apply now to become a part of Burges Salmon!

To submit an application for this vacancy please click on the 'Apply Now' button.

Please note that we are not accepting applications via recruitment agencies for this opportunity. Please apply directly to be considered.

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