We support and encourage our trainees in growing ability and knowledge to reach their full potential. Applications are now open - apply now!
You'll gain hands-on experience with a variety of legal cases, learning from and working alongside our leading experts. This will count as Qualifying Work Experience (QWE) under the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE) framework which is the route to qualification as a solicitor in England and Wales.
Throughout your training contract, you will be involved in real-world legal work, giving you the opportunity to apply your academic knowledge, while developing practical skills across different areas of law.
We will provide support as you prepare for the SQE assessments, ensuring that you are well-equipped not only with the technical legal knowledge required, but also with the practical experience necessary to succeed.
Candidates will be based in our Edinburgh or Glasgow offices during their training contracts.
Applications for our English training contracts are now open. Applications are available for 2025 and 2026, and are open until midday on Monday 3 February 2025.
Apply nowThis training contract is for those who are eager to delve into English law, engage with the unique challenges of cross-jurisdictional legal work, and ultimately qualify as a solicitor under the SQE regime.
We are looking for law students who are passionate about English law and keen to kickstart their legal careers. Responsibility and ownership of your own workload lies with you from day one – and we'll challenge you, teach you, support you and encourage you, to become the lawyer you want to be.
We provide a total reward approach where our wide range of benefits gives colleagues the opportunity to tailor a package that is suited to their lifestyle and life-stage.
Learn moreUpper quartile trainee salaries
Our total reward approach reflects the market in which we operate.
Diploma fees paid
We provide financial support while you continue your studies by paying for diploma fees.
Bonus scheme
All colleagues are eligible for a firm-wide and individual performance bonus.
Pensions scheme
We are thinking about your future before you are, with monthly contributions being made to your pensions.
Working at Brodies is so much more than I expected. The supportive culture and multiple opportunities to develop means that I am constantly learning and pushing myself to try new things.
Louise McGregor, Trainee solicitor
The people are the best thing about working at Brodies. Colleagues are supportive, helpful and friendly. It’s great to be part of the trainee network, and I have already made friends for life.
Nina Munro, Trainee solicitor
There are so many opportunities on offer at Brodies. There are lots of opportunities to go on secondment – I am heading out the Brodies Middle East office later this year and will be the first trainee to be seconded there.
Leona Whyte, Trainee solicitor
Our values of courage, character, care, collaborative and collegiate are more than just a strapline. Whether delivering services to our clients, fulfilling our professional duties as solicitors, or contributing to the wider economy and communities in which we work, our values inform everything we do.
Learn moreBrodies LLP is proud to be using the Rare Contextual Recruitment System which allows us to understand each applicant’s achievements in the context in which they have been gained. We seek to recruit the best people, from every background, regardless of their personal circumstances, and the CRS help us to do that. The CRS is only ever used to screen people in, not out and under no circumstances are candidates ever marked down for supplying this information.
Find out moreWe have adapted a greener, more sustainable approach to graduate recruitment. We have reviewed our recruitment practices to help reduce our carbon footprint and minimise environmental and climate impacts. As part of our commitment, we are signatories to the Sustainable Recruitment Alliance. We pledge to review our processes and operations, identifying opportunities to be more sustainable, reduce the amount of materials and/or switch to sustainable alternatives and report on change, so the impact can be calculated. SRA have featured us as a case study recognising our efforts to reduce waste at campus law fairs.
Find out moreFor those students not at the stage to apply for traineeships just yet our summer placement programme is open to 3rd year and above LLB students and 1st year accelerated LLB.
Summer placementsInterested in applying for our Scottish traineeships? Visit our page to find out more.
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