Training Contract 2028 & 2029

As the UK's leading full-service law firm, we believe we have something genuinely different to offer our trainee solicitors due to our wide range of legal teams. You’ll have the opportunity to specialise in legal services tailored for individuals or businesses, while simultaneously gaining exposure to our comprehensive suite of teams. This integrated approach ensures that clients can fulfil all their legal requirements with us, while allowing you to broaden your legal expertise across a spectrum of interrelated service areas throughout a client’s journey.  

Training Contract – Business Services Group  (available for August 2028 only) 

Our corporate/commercial legal teams are a £60 million business with a national presence, global reach, and a local feel with 350+ colleagues across six locations.  We have established experts covering financial services, living, renewable energy, manufacturing, consumer, sport, education, and technology, and can offer a range of legal services which means an exciting time working across multiple sectors with national and regional clients.  

The Business Services Group (BSG) typically have 10-15 national trainee roles. This covers 13 teams: 

- Banking & Finance  

- Commercial   

- Commercial Dispute Resolution 

- Construction  

- Corporate  

- Employment  

- Intellectual Property  

- Pensions  

- Planning & Environmental  

- Real Estate  

- Real Estate Disputes  

- Regulatory & Compliance  

- Restructuring & Insolvency  

Across six locations: 

- Birmingham 

- Gatwick/Brighton 

- Leeds 

- London 

- Manchester 

- Sheffield 

You'll undertake four seats over two years, giving you a breadth of experience across the multi-disciplinary teams which service the varying needs of clients in the mid-corporate market and community. BSG teams are collaborative and actively cross-sell their services.  

We encourage all our BSG trainees to develop their commercial awareness, to be curious and open-minded about the entirety of our BSG offering, and to take advantage of the opportunities presented by completing their training with such a national firm. 

Training Contract - Legal Services for Individuals (Available for August 2028 in some locations and August 2029 in all locations) 

One of the best firms for personal injury and medical negligence with award-winning teams within private client, family, court of protection and public law means an opportunity for your knowledge to develop across a wide breadth of individual legal services.  

The Legal Services for Individuals stream covers four practice areas as follows: 

- Medical Negligence 

- Personal Injury - Serious Injury, and Asbestos & Occupational Disease  

- Court of Protection, and Public Law & Human Rights 

- Private Client Group – Private Client Advisory, Private Client Dispute Resolution, Family Law 

Across 16 offices: 

- Birmingham 

- Brighton – Private Client Group only 

- Bristol 

- Cambridge 

- Cardiff 

- Chichester – Private Client Group only 

- Gatwick  

- Leeds 

- Liverpool 

- London

- Manchester 

- Newcastle 

- Nottingham 

- Reading – Private Client Group only 

- Sheffield 

- Southampton 

By completing seats in the individual stream allows you to complete seats that complement each other and develop your knowledge and skills regarding your particular client base.  

Each office has different teams and seats are allocated based on business need. Please see our website for further details regarding which departments are in which office. 

The firm is looking for ambitious and well-motivated individuals who have a real commitment to the law and who can demonstrate a positive approach to their work. Irwin Mitchell recruits law and non-law graduates and views social ability as important as academic achievement.

Who can apply?

- Penultimate year law and non-law students 

- No minimum degree