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Newly Qualified Solicitors - South Wales
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🚀 JUST QUALIFIED? YOUR LEGAL CAREER STARTS HERE.
Newly Qualified Solicitors - South Wales
Multiple Practice Areas | Excellent Career Opportunities | South Wales
If you're a newly qualified solicitor looking for your first post-qualification move, we're working with a range of established and ambitious law firms across South Wales who are looking to recruit talented NQs across a variety of practice areas.
Whether you know exactly what area you want to specialise in, or you're still deciding where your legal career is going to take you, there are opportunities available across South Wales.
NQ opportunities currently include:
- Residential Conveyancing - Join established property teams handling a varied caseload with genuine opportunities to develop your fee-earning career.
- Commercial Property - Work alongside experienced commercial property lawyers on acquisitions, disposals, leases and wider property matters.
- Employment - Advise both individuals and businesses across a broad range of contentious and non-contentious employment matters.
- Personal Injury - Develop your career within established claimant or defendant teams, working on a varied caseload.
- Corporate - Get involved in acquisitions, disposals, shareholder matters, restructures and other corporate transactions.
- Commercial - Work with businesses on commercial contracts, agreements and wider advisory matters.
- Family - Build your career advising clients on divorce, finances, private children matters and other family law issues.
- Private Client - Develop expertise across Wills, Probate, Trusts, Estate Administration and wider private client work.
- Criminal - Join established criminal teams dealing with a varied caseload and representing clients through the criminal justice process.
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WHY SOUTH WALES?
From Cardiff and Newport to Swansea, Bridgend, the Valleys and West Wales, South Wales has a thriving legal market with firms ranging from specialist boutiques to large regional and national practices.
And importantly, you don't have to leave Wales to build a genuinely successful legal career.
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We're seeing firms offer NQs:
- Competitive salaries
- Genuine progression opportunities
- Hybrid and flexible working
- Excellent training and supervision
- Supportive teams
- Quality caseloads
- Clear routes to progression
- The opportunity to develop your own specialism
👀 WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
We're interested in speaking with newly qualified solicitors across South Wales, whether you've qualified through a traditional training contract, SQE route or another recognised pathway.
You don't necessarily need to have everything figured out yet.
What matters is that you're qualified, ambitious and ready for the next chapter.
YOUR NQ YEAR IS OVER. NOW THE REAL CAREER BEGINS.
If you're considering your options after qualification - even if you're not actively looking - we'd be happy to have a confidential conversation about what's available across South Wales.
📩 Contact Daniel Mason for a confidential discussion about your next move.
South Wales. Your career. Your choice.
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