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Small intake, complex client work, early responsibility, close partner contact and a genuinely friendly culture.
Firm type
UK offices
International offices
Training contract places
Vacation scheme places
First-year salary
Second-year salary
Newly qualified salary
Trainee retention
SQE support
Visa sponsorship
International secondment
Client secondment
Guaranteed secondment
Recruitment route
Rolling recruitment?
Seat structure
Can trainees repeat a seat?
Can trainees express seat preferences?
Trainee salaries review
Non-law applicants
Career-changer applicants
Remote working
Minimum academic requirements
Typical start time
Typical finish time
Wellbeing support
PGDL funding
Retrospective funding
Before you apply, ask yourself:
Would you thrive in a relatively small trainee intake where you can take on meaningful responsibility early and become a visible member of the team?
Do you want close access to partners and clients, rather than working within large teams with several layers between trainees and senior lawyers?
Are you interested in RPC's particular strengths, including Insurance & Reinsurance, Disputes, and Technology, Media & Entertainment?
Would you value international and client-side experience, with potential secondments to Hong Kong, Singapore or client offices in the UK?
Does a friendly, down-to-earth and individualistic culture appeal to you, where RPC says people are encouraged to be themselves while delivering complex client work?
Explore this firm in detail
Small intakes, big responsibility
You could become a visible member of the team and take ownership early, while responsibility develops according to your ability and experience.
Close partner access from day one
You could have regular access to senior lawyers for questions, feedback and development, rather than interacting with partners only occasionally.
Early exposure to clients and complex work
Early exposure to clients and complex work
Practice area strengths
Insurance & Reinsurance
Disputes
Technology, Media & Entertainment
All practice areas
Before you apply, ask yourself
This firm may suit candidates who…
Things to consider
Insurance & Reinsurance
What it involves:
Working on insurance and reinsurance matters involving claims, coverage issues and the commercial considerations surrounding the management of disputes.
Example trainee tasks:
Reviewing policy wording and evidence, researching coverage issues, drafting reports and correspondence, preparing hearing or mediation materials, and supporting the progression of claims.
Who trainees work with:
Partners, associates, claims handlers, insured clients, experts and other parties involved in insurance matters.
Early responsibility:
Trainees may liaise directly with claims handlers, insured clients and experts and become involved in preparing matters for mediation or court hearings.
Support and supervision:
Trainees work alongside partners and associates within RPC's relatively small teams, with responsibility developing according to their ability and experience.
A first month might involve:
Reviewing policy wording and evidence, researching coverage questions, drafting correspondence, liaising with claims handlers and helping prepare for a mediation or hearing.
Disputes
What it involves:
Supporting complex contentious matters while considering both the legal issues and the client's wider commercial and reputational objectives.
Example trainee tasks:
Document review, preparing chronologies and court bundles, researching complex legal questions, and drafting client updates, correspondence and witness statements.
Who trainees work with:
Partners, associates, clients, counsel and other professionals involved in contentious matters.
Early responsibility:
Trainees may attend client calls and hearings alongside counsel and contribute directly to the preparation and progression of live disputes.
Support and supervision:
Trainees work closely with the wider disputes team, including partners and associates, while developing responsibility for substantive elements of matters.
A first month might involve:
Reviewing documents, building a chronology, researching a legal issue, preparing a first draft of client correspondence and supporting preparation for a hearing.
Content Technology, Media & Entertainment
What it involves:
Working on varied and often highly topical matters involving technology, media and entertainment clients, including fast-moving regulatory, advisory and contentious issues.
Example trainee tasks:
Researching news reports and social media evidence, building factual chronologies, monitoring regulatory developments, turning lengthy consultations into accessible client updates, drafting correspondence, and preparing documents for counsel and hearings.
Who trainees work with:
Partners, associates, clients and counsel across technology, media and entertainment matters.
Early responsibility:
Trainees may join client calls, contribute to client updates and correspondence and become closely involved in the factual and strategic preparation of matters.
Support and supervision:
RPC says its smaller teams give trainees particularly close exposure to the strategy and people behind each matter.
A first month might involve:
Researching a topical legal or regulatory development, reviewing news or social-media evidence, preparing a chronology or client update, joining a client call and helping prepare documents for counsel.
Work-life balance varies by team, seat and transaction cycle. This section is designed to help you understand the pattern, not reduce the experience to a score.
Flexibility
Holiday allowance
Office attendance
Supervision style
Relationship with partners
Open plan or traditional offices
Online application form
(1-2 hours)
Cappfinity online assessment
(40 minutes)
Assessment centre
(Half day)
