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Earn while you learn with our Apprenticeships.
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As of September 2024, we have a total of 28 apprentices
Start your career where brilliance belongs. We offer apprenticeships across our legal and business professional teams.
Our collaborative culture supports you as you build both professional and personal skills, with guidance from people across the firm who want you to succeed.
An apprenticeship gives you real insight into a career and helps you develop valuable, transferable skills — from commercial awareness to confidence and initiative.
As a member of the legal sector Trailblazer group, we helped shape national apprenticeship standards and were among the first firms to offer paralegal and solicitor apprenticeships.
With high‑quality training, competitive starting salaries and the chance to learn from experts, you can build a strong foundation for your future at Burges Salmon.
Our apprentices in numbers
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As part of the legal trailblazer group we helped design the new paralegal and solicitor apprenticeship standards
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We launched our first legal apprenticeship scheme
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The introduction of the business professional apprenticeship
Legal apprenticeships
The programme
Our legal apprenticeship programme offers you the opportunity to qualify as a solicitor. Based in our Bristol office and in tandem with BPP University, you will complete the Level 7 Solicitor apprenticeship 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.
Work:study split
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.
Salary
You will be earning from day one, with a salary increase each year:
Applications for the 2026 legal apprenticeship will open on 15th September 2025 and close on 10th November 2025.
Bristol legal apprenticeship virtual open evening
2nd October
Find out more about our upcoming virtual open evening and register to attend:
Register nowBristol legal apprenticeship in-person open evening
9th October
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Business apprenticeships
Alongside our legal apprenticeships, we’ve also welcomed apprentices into our Finance, Marketing, Project Management and IT teams in our Bristol office. Our business apprenticeships typically last between two and four years and offer the chance to build real experience, with opportunities to continue working with us once your programme ends.
Unlike the legal route, the level and structure of our business apprenticeships vary by department, with some teams offering integrated degree apprenticeships. Sign up below to receive the latest updates on new business professional opportunities.
Register hereAcademic entry requirements
- GCSEs: grades 5 and above are essential and you will need to have achieved at least a 6 in Maths and English.
- A Levels: BBB or equivalent.
Diversity & inclusion
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.
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