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Wherever you train, from Leeds to London, the promise is the same, real access to high-quality, international work.

The firm's emphasis on relationships means you will find a workplace that cares just as much about your personal development as it does about client results.

You could work with colleagues and clients across jurisdictions while building experience across a broad range of practice areas, with structured training and support as you develop.

Expect a firm that treats commercial success and positive social impact as the same goal rather than a trade-off, allowing you to do high-quality work with a genuine passion for helping your clients and their causes.

A firm where your route there matters less than at other firms, where the training it promises is backed by structure, and where working together means literally being in the room.

Your own matters early, hours that leave room for a life, a door in that isn't decided by grades alone, and top-ranked work for the NHS, councils and housing providers.

With offices around the world and a large selection of seats to choose from, the possibilities for you to develop are vast, both geographically and professionally.

A small, specialist firm where genuine interest in science and technology matters, and where the absence of billable targets shapes how people actually work.

High-quality work, in an environment where inclusion is centred and trainees are given a high level of responsibility to do the best work they can for the clients.

Working at Charles Russell Speechlys means building relationships with clients that span years and borders. Being someone those clients can trust is essential, and just as important as your legal understanding.

A large, international firm where you bid for your own seats and a quarter of trainees are on secondment at any one time. You get scale and choice, but you compete for both.

Corporate deals and family estates sit under the same roof here, and you can train across both rather than committing to one before you have tried either.

A smaller trainee intake and lean teams mean you can expect meaningful responsibility and exposure to complex, high-calibre work from an early stage, while learning closely from senior lawyers.

The development on offer runs well past qualification, so the two years of training are pitched as the start of a career here rather than a route to one somewhere else.

DLA Piper follows clients around the globe, taking advantage of its 90 offices in 40 different countries, with its team working with clients all the way from start-ups to multinationals.

As a Fieldfisher trainee, you will have the opportunity to work on a broad range of work, from medical negligence based in the UK, all the way to emerging markets and international media work, allowing you to shape your career on your terms.

With a focus on work in the UK and South West in particular, Foot Anstey is rapidly growing, giving trainees the opportunity to take on early responsibility and get early client contact.

You could gain early responsibility on complex international disputes and transactions, while working as part of an integrated global team.

You could develop deep commercial understanding across Goodwin’s six core industries while taking on meaningful responsibility early, working closely with partners and associates on sophisticated, often cross-border matters within a small trainee cohort.

As a firm with a small intake, but large national clients, trainees are entrusted with early responsibility and client contact, meaning you need to empathise with clients and work effectively with your team from day one.

If you enter the firm with curiosity and drive, your growth becomes something the firm is actively invested in, not something you're left to chase on your own.

Working here means working with large companies, primarily on finance, business and administrative law on complex, cross border matters, where you will need to take on a high level of responsibility and use your initiative.

Working at Irwin Mitchell, you will likely work either with real individuals on deeply personal claims related to personal injury or medical negligence, or work with some of the UK’s biggest companies on a range of matters, primarily focusing on domestic work, but with some international scope.

You could shape your training across different practice areas rather than following fixed seats, taking on early responsibility while working with lawyers and clients across Jones Day's international network.

With a history rooted in the insurance industry, Kennedys work with a range of clients, from individuals struggling with medical negligence claims, all the way to multinational shipping companies, insuring and transporting goods around the globe.

People are the heart of everything at Lewis Silkin, with an employment focused practice, a small intake and market leading employee support; working here will give you access to international clients and the support to enjoy it.

You could combine hands-on experience on complex international work with structured development and opportunities to build your career across a broad global platform.

Working at Milbank is especially demanding; its lawyers work across timezones to service top tier clients on novel and difficult legal work at speed whilst maintaining a high quality end product.

You could build broad experience across six seat rotations, taking on meaningful work while developing through structured supervision and support.

Lawyers at Paul Hastings are expected to go above and beyond, being not only delivering technical, complex, cross-border work, but also being a valued advisor to companies they work with, regardless of the client’s region.

You could take on meaningful responsibility early while developing through a combination of structured training and hands-on experience. Reed Smith’s sector-focused approach could also give you exposure to leading work across areas including energy and natural resources, media, finance and transportation, within a friendly and collaborative environment.

You could build experience on significant public-sector and commercial matters while training in a smaller specialist firm that places early responsibility and support at the centre of its trainee proposition.

Shoosmiths aims to differentiate itself through its advisory roles, providing clients with more than just legal advice. Trainees looking to succeed in this environment will need to understand how businesses work and want to work on more than just black-letter-law.

You could build your career across highly regulated sectors while working internationally and developing the legal, commercial and technology skills needed to help clients respond to change.

You could work in small teams on complex, high-value international matters, with early responsibility and opportunities to contribute directly to cross-border transactions and disputes.

You benefit from close working relationships with partners and clients from early on, within a firm whose international network gives you genuine cross-border work as well as UK-based deals.

As a small, but growing firm, joining Thrings gives you the opportunity to grow in an environment where you will be able to take on more personal responsibility and shape your career as the firm continues to expand.

You could build experience across a broad national practice while taking on client work early, with structured development and flexibility over how you build your career.

You could gain early responsibility across sector-focused work in the UK, with the opportunity to build international experience through Trowers & Hamlins' Middle East network.

VWV offer a truly unique approach to practising law, not only working with sectors all the way from education law to M&A, but also in how they service clients, offering in-house HR, strategy and finance consulting alongside legal services.

You'll learn how to specialise early, working closely with sector experts in areas like shipping, energy and infrastructure, and draw on the firm's international network rather than working on purely domestic matters.

Trainees at Wedlake Bell are often given high levels of responsibility and client contact, so need to understand how to best deliver their work in a way that puts the client first.

Headline deals run by small teams, where being one of only a few people on a file means you are given responsibility early rather than after you qualify.

You could build experience on sophisticated international matters, working alongside recognised specialists in London and collaborating with colleagues across Europe and the US.

The firm’s focus on ‘people’ is not just internal, with the firm specialising in a range of private client matters, lawyers at Withers need to be aware of the delicate nature of personal legal problems, giving trainees an experience rarely found in the City.