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Legal Solicitor Apprentice (TLT LLP)
Locations: Birmingham, Bristol, London, Manchester
Closing Date: Sunday 21 February 2027
Posted on: 13 October 2026
Summary
Our six-year Legal Solicitor Apprenticeship offers a unique opportunity to build your legal knowledge and business development experience while studying for a law degree. You’ll be at the heart of the action from day one - doing real work, delivering real results, and gaining recognition for your achievements.
Wage: Competitive
Training course: Solicitor (level 7)
Hours: Monday to Friday, 9.00am - 5.00pm. 35 hours a week
Start date: Monday 13 September 2027
Duration: 6 years
Positions available: 10
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
You’ll work with clients from sectors including Future Energy, Digital, Financial Services, Leisure, Food & Drink, Public Sector, Real Estate, and Retail & Consumer Goods.
Programme Structure
Years 1–2: Foundation Stage (Junior Paralegal to Paralegal Level)
- Apprentices begin at Junior Paralegal level, undertaking two 12-month rotations across different legal teams.
- Academic study mirrors the early years of a traditional law degree, covering foundational law and practice including public law, contract law, tort law and dispute resolution, legal research, and professional practice skills.
- Work will vary by team but typically includes legal admin, research tasks, and early exposure to client matters.
Years 3–4: Development Stage (Paralegal to Senior Paralegal Level)
- Apprentices continue with two further 12-month rotations, taking on more complex legal work.
- Academic study covers further areas of law and practice such as criminal law, land law, company law and trusts law and coaching and professional practice skills.
- Ongoing supervision and mentoring help apprentices refine their legal and commercial skills.
Years 5–6: Trainee Solicitor Stage
- Apprentices join the Trainee Solicitor cohort and complete four 6-month seat rotations.
- During this time, they will prepare for and undertake the Solicitors Qualifying Examinations (SQE).
- Work becomes increasingly aligned with that of a newly qualified solicitor, with greater responsibility and client exposure.
What We’re Looking For
We’re successful because we challenge convention and embrace innovation. We value individual thinking and trust our people to deliver great work for great clients — whatever their role. We’re looking for candidates who are:
- Academically strong
- Commercially agile
- Curious, collaborative, and committed to a career in law
Where you'll work
You can select which locations you want to apply for in your application on Find an apprenticeship. This apprenticeship is available in these locations:
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Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider: BPP UNIVERSITY LIMITED
Training course: Solicitor (level 7)
What you'll learn
- Obtain relevant facts by effective questioning and active listening.
- Find, analyse, and assess documents to extract relevant information including recognising when additional information is needed, interpreting and evaluating information obtained, recording and presenting information accurately and clearly.
- Recognise when legal research is needed and use appropriate methods and resources including identifying, finding and assessing the relevance of sources of law, interpreting, evaluating and applying research results, recording and presenting findings of research accurately and clearly.
- Develop strategies and solutions including an understanding of a client’s commercial and personal circumstances, their needs, objectives, priorities and constraints.
- Provide advice which is informed by appropriate and factual legal analysis and identifying the consequences of different options.
- Draft documents from scratch and use precedents which address all legal and factual issues, complying with all formalities and using clear, accurate and succinct language.
- Undertake effective spoken and written advocacy in court and outside of formal court hearings including: effective preparation by identifying and mastering relevant facts and legal principles, organize facts to support an argument or position, present a reasoned argument in a clear, logical, succinct persuasive way, make appropriate references to legal authority, comply with formalities, deal with witnesses appropriately, respond effectively to questions or opposing arguments, identify strengths and weaknesses from different parties’ perspectives.
- Negotiate solutions to clients’ issues including: identify all parties’ interests, objectives and limits, developing and formulating best options for meeting parties’ objectives, presenting options for compromises persuasively, responding to options presented by the other side, developing compromises between options or parties.
- Plan and manage legal cases and transactions including applying relevant processes and procedures to progress matters effectively, assessing, communicating and managing risk, bringing a transaction or case to a conclusion.
Training schedule
BPP apprenticeship training programmes are delivered virtually by our fully qualified and industry-experienced training team. Using their expert knowledge, we’ve purposefully built our programmes around the real-world use of modern technology, so that the skills we create can be directly applied in the workplace. Throughout the apprenticeship learners receive coaching, help and guidance from a dedicated team who are there to ensure they get the most from their work experience. Throughout the programme, you’ll be supported by a dedicated supervisor who will help you develop your technical legal knowledge and commercial awareness. Alongside your university studies, you'll also attend development workshops designed to build the mindset, focus, and resilience needed for a successful legal career.
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Requirements
Essential qualifications
UCAS in: UCAS Points (grade 128 points)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Attention to detail
- Academically strong
- Commercially agile
- Curious and collaborative
- Committed to a career in law
- Resilience
- Working under pressure
- Teamwork
Other requirements
128 UCAS Points (ABB at A-Level or equivalent).
About this employer
Fast-paced, fast-growing, and forward-thinking — TLT is the law firm that helps clients stay one step ahead, and we do the same for our people. We work with high-profile clients across innovative sectors. With local, national, and international reach, we have over 1,800 people based in offices across the UK and a network of partner firms in Europe, India, and the US.
TLT was named Law Firm of the Year at the Legal Business Awards 2023 — the third consecutive year we’ve received this accolade, following wins at The Lawyer Awards in 2021 and the British Legal Awards in 2022.
After this apprenticeship
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Temporary position for 6 years. Further progression may well be available in other areas within our sector, upon successful completion of the apprenticeship.
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The contact for this apprenticeship is: BPP UNIVERSITY LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000056706.
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