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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.

A global firm that specialises rather than covers everything, built on insurance, shipping, energy and aviation, where you go deep into a sector early and get files of your own.

You could train at a firm focused on how industries, technology and regulation are changing, while gaining broad commercial experience across different teams, sectors and offices.

Working in a small team here means real, early exposure to interesting clients and matters, whilst being supported by a team that genuinely cares about your development.

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.

You could explore a broad range of practice areas, take on increasing responsibility and gain international exposure while developing through close supervision, partner mentoring and structured training.

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.

You could build your legal career around representing individuals who have suffered injuries, developing specialist claimant personal injury experience and working directly with clients on cases that can have a significant impact on their lives.

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.

As a boutique real estate and private client firm, working at Forsters requires trainees to understand their clients’ specific needs and personal aims, working with these clients across different issues, ranging from cross-border tax issues and succession planning to real estate disputes.

You could work on complex matters with colleagues and clients across jurisdictions while exploring different practice areas and shaping eight seats of your training contract around your developing interests.

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.

At Gowling WLG, you’ll gain hands-on experience across a range of practice areas, with meaningful responsibility from day one. You’ll work alongside supportive colleagues while developing your legal skills and commercial awareness.

For people looking to work in media, entertainment, with tech companies or high-wealth private individuals, this firm offers a unique blend of practices that allows you to work with some of the most exciting companies and individuals, in a team that allows for more client exposure.

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.

Joining HFW means joining a firm that is particularly strong in its sector-based approach, and your training contract seat choices will be based around these, but will span work across the globe.

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.

Our ethos is ‘bravery and kindness’. Our people are empowered to try new things, take brave decisions, and to be ambitious in everything they do. We treat our colleagues and our clients with kindness and empathy, and emphasise the importance of enjoying our work in a high trust environment.

You could work on complex, cross-border matters alongside experienced lawyers while developing your skills through structured training, broad seat rotations and international opportunities.

You could take on meaningful responsibility within lean teams, working closely with senior lawyers on complex, high-value matters from an early stage.

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.

You could train on complex, high-profile work while developing in a firm that combines legal expertise and innovation with a strong focus on the people behind its work.

You could combine high levels of early responsibility and exposure to complex, cross-border work with the close senior-lawyer contact that comes from working in lean teams, particularly across technology-focused and innovative industries.

A prestigious international firm with enough structure around your development that it shouldn't feel like you're chasing it alone.

You could take on substantive work and direct client contact from your first seat, thanks to Orrick's lean teams and small trainee intake, while working across sectors like technology, energy and life sciences in a culture trainees consistently describe as collaborative and approachable rather than hierarchical.

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.

The firm treats development as something built over time, so expect genuine investment into shaping you as a lawyer over your training contract and beyond.

You could train in a business that combines traditional legal work with technology, innovation and wider professional services, while developing through hands-on client work, sector-led training and opportunities to contribute beyond your day-to-day legal role

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 take on meaningful responsibility early while working closely with partners, associates and clients. RPC's relatively small trainee intake is designed to give trainees direct involvement in complex matters rather than keeping them at the edges of the team.

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 could gain broad experience across complex, high-profile matters rather than specialising too early, while developing strong commercial judgement and technical expertise. From the outset, you could work on international and cross-border matters, build direct client relationships and learn from lawyers across the firm’s collaborative global network.

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.

Training with Tapestry means becoming a specialist in employee share plans and incentives, working with some of the biggest companies in a range of sectors both within the UK and internationally.

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 take on meaningful responsibility on complex, high-quality work from day one, learning directly from senior lawyers while gaining genuine cross-border exposure and building your expertise in a supportive environment.

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'll work on ambitious, genuinely international deals from day one, backed by a global network across 43 offices, in teams that are close-knit and down-to-earth.

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

You will be in the client meetings and the negotiations, not just working on the paperwork they produce.

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.

You could contribute to live client matters from an early stage while developing through structured training, close supervision and the resources of an international firm with opportunities across seven UK offices.