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Gateley Legal Graduate Careers
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The AllAboutLaw perspective on Gateley Legal
A career at Gateley Legal provides you with the opportunity to work somewhere where you feel valued and supported. Past trainees have praised the fact that the firm’s partners are willing to sit down and talk to you, and the dedicated support and mentoring you receive from senior solicitors. As a trainee, you’ll attend soft-skills, IT and technical training, allowing you to blossom as a lawyer.
Training contracts at the firm involve four seats, each lasting six months. The firm tries their hardest to ensure that at least one of these is a seat of your choice. Trainees complete seats in the core legal areas of corporate, real estate and contentious, with options such as construction, pensions and dispute resolution. Trainees also get the opportunity to complete a client secondment with one of the firm’s key clients.
Gateley Legal are keen to give back to their community, and work closely with numerous charities. The firm packed gift boxes at Christmas 2019, in partnership with The Buddybag Foundation, which supports children in emergency care. Recently, the firm partnered with SportsAid, and have sponsored ten young athletes, providing them with free travel, accomodation, equipment and personal development opportunities.
The firm is also keen to ensure that everyone in the firm feels included and supported, regardless of their background. Gateley Legal is a disability confident employee, and has a number of diversity networks in place. Recently, the firm implemented mandatory ‘understanding race bias’ training, and joined the Halo Code, an initiative that aims to celebrate all Afro-textured hair.
What the firm says
If you choose to work at Gateley Legal, you’ll be working somewhere that made history, with the firm being the first commercial law firm to float on the London Stock Exchange. Trainees at Gateley Legal receive plenty of responsibility coupled with plenty of support, meaning many continue their careers at the firm long after their training contract.
Gateley Legal recognises that financial reward is not the only way in which people are rewarded at work, and provides their employees with flexible working opportunities and diversity initiatives that aim to celebrate their differences. If you have ambition, commerciality and excellent communication skills, apply for Gateley Legal today.
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- 1st year - regions£28,000
- 2nd year - regions£30,000
- GDL course fees paidYes
- GDL living costs grantNot disclosed
- LPC course fees paidYes
- Retention rate - Sept. 202271%
- Offices13
- 1st year - Reading/Guildford£32,000
- 2nd year Reading/Guildford£34,000
- 1st year - London£36,000
- 2nd year - London£38,500
- 1st year - Belfast£23,200
- 2nd year - Belfast£24,200
- NQ - Regional£55,000
- NQ - Reading/Guildford£57,500
- NQ - London£75,000
- NQ - Belfast£33,000
Awards
Highly Commended - Most Sustainable Recruitment Campaign
Highly Commended - Most Sustainable Recruitment Process
Sustainability
Sustainability is incredibly important to this law firm. The firm has signed up to the Sustainable Recruitment Alliance pledge, which is a movement committed to finding more sustainable ways to attract early talent.
Academic requirements
- A-levels No minimum requirement
- Degree No minimum requirement
We understand that individuals may have reasons for mitigating circumstances and there is a section on our application form where you can detail these.
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