TRAINEE SOLICITOR PROGRAMME

Why choose Healys LLP?

We are a friendly and diverse medium sized firm with an inclusive, supportive and progressive culture and offices in central London and Brighton.

We recognise the importance of training and development for all employees throughout their career, value our trainees highly and make every effort to ensure trainees become fully integrated into the practice, both in terms of work and socially.

As a Trainee, you will be given opportunities to work with clients, alongside our own legal experts and to develop a wide range of skills to maximise your potential. You will be given exposure to an interesting and challenging work load and to a wide variety of clients.

We offer an exciting and comprehensive programme over two years, with a variety of seats across a varied range of our practice areas. You will experience three to four seats, usually on a six month rotation basis, with access to a mixture of contentious and non-contentious work. You will be closely supervised and mentored throughout the training period, with regular informal and more formal update and appraisal meetings. These meetings will enable you continuously to review your progress and to raise and discuss any skills you need to develop, as well as your future objectives. This will ensure you get the best out of your training and that you end the two years with a clear idea of where and how you want to specialise.

What do we look for in our Trainee Solicitors?

We believe that the success of Healys LLP is built upon our people and we aim always to recruit high calibre individuals who have the skills, experience and commitment to enable us to continue to provide excellent client service and legal expertise.

We are therefore seeking ambitious, talented, highly-motivated and commercially aware trainees who are aiming to establish a career with us and who demonstrates potential to be a Partner of the future.

You will have a good first degree, in law or another relevant subject, such as history, English etc. with a minimum 2:1 classification, or a GDL/Master’s degree, again at a high academic standard. You will also ideally have completed or be studying towards the LPC.

Relevant work experience as a paralegal or in a business support role in a similar organisation will also be of benefit and we are also interested in ‘career changers’, from accountancy or banking backgrounds, for example.

We welcome applications from candidates with disabilities and we will always make any reasonable adjustments necessary to ensure that you are able fully to participate in the selection process at every stage. If you have a disability that requires reasonable adjustments, please state this on your application and/or notify us as soon as possible if you are selected for the first stage in the recruitment process.

Trainee Recruitment Process

1. Submit CV and covering letter
2. Invitation to a testing session, comprising:

• Legal Case Study
• Verbal / Numerical Ability Test

3. On a separate day, invitation to interview & presentation exercise

Please see our guidance below on how to approach your application. You will need to meet the required standard at each stage in the selection process before progressing to the next stage.

Covering Letter

Please think about the following questions and include your responses in your covering letter.

Why are you seeking to become a lawyer and how does this relate to the work of Healys LLP in particular? For example,

• What is it about the work we do that motivates you?
• How do you see yourself contributing to our key priorities?
• What are your aspirations and how do these tie in with working for Healys? What is your long-term career goal?

Trainee Recruitment

Unfortunately, following the Covid-19 pandemic and various developments and restructuring within the business, we will not be seeking any trainees this year, so please do not submit an application. We hope in due course to recommence our trainee recruitment programme.