Join our existing legal apprentices and become a member of our most important asset: our team.
Legal Apprentice training and career opportunities in City of London Law Firm, LEXLAW.
Legal Administration Apprentices provide administrative support to the legal teams and individual lawyers and work groups as they learn the fundamentals of providing a professional legal service.
If you are a young person in London with good GCSEs or A Levels, our 2018 legal apprenticeship scheme offers a great alternative to studying law at university. These rare apprenticeships suit hard-working young people with a strong academic background; those committed to learning new skills and gaining legal knowledge and those holding a genuine desire to become a qualified lawyer. As a legal apprentice, you support the firm’s solicitors and barristers and follow their guidance whilst yourself training to qualify as a lawyer.
We are now seeking bright, enthusiastic and committed Londoners who would like to become qualified lawyers, firstly via the Legal Administration Apprenticeship then to obtain the CILEx legal executive qualification. The successful candidates will work within an existing legal apprentice team and be registered with CILEx as an apprentice and will provide assistance to our lawyers which will include a range of administration and office duties. The firm will pay you a salary (in excess of national apprenticeship rates) and pay for all your education and training costs while offering you long term employment in return for your commitment to our clients and our team.
LEXLAW work closely with the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEx), and a London-based further education college to offer the ‘Level 3 CILEx Paralegal Apprenticeship’ and the opportunity to progress onto the ‘Level 6 CILEx Professional Higher Diploma in Law and Practice’.
Learning takes place mainly during employment through the development of ‘on the job’ skills. There is an ‘off the job’ training element which will take place ideally through your attending a London-based further education college. Both the on and off the job elements of the legal apprenticeship lead to nationally-recognised legal executive qualifications which are awarded by CILEx.
The firm has developed a relationship with a London further education college which trains our Legal Apprentices in London. The principal tutor is PGCE qualified to teach and herself qualified as (and practises as) a Solicitor via the Legal Executive route. All of our apprentices are delighted with this college release system of education and find it much better than those providers that provide distance learning teaching methods. As a result we now exclusively train apprentices via college day release.
We’re based in Middle Temple in the City of London, so if you live in Greater London and have a passion for the law and have the the drive and determination to succeed in what can be a demanding and fast paced sector then we would love to hear from you. We want to see how well you can put together a covering email and CV, so once you are ready email us at legal.apprentice@lexlaw.co.uk and we will be in touch.