Training Contracts & SQE Pathways
Supporting your career development through qualification
As an established and long-standing SRA training provider, Talbots Law can offer specialist training to support you in your chosen pathway to qualification.
Talbots Law currently offer two distinct types of Training Contract:
“Train to Specialise” Training Contracts and Solicitor Apprenticeships - These are offered exclusively to existing colleagues in a full variety of our practice areas as part of their ongoing career development.
“Business Services” Training Contracts - which include rotations to specific practice areas within commercial disciplines are open to external applicants.
The Application Process
There are no deadlines or closing dates for current employees who are looking to qualify via the Training Contract or SQE pathways. We actively encourage career progression and will support applications for further development toward professional qualifications when the timing is right.
External applicants can apply for a Business Services Training Contract by applying initially for a place on our Graduate Vacation Scheme.
We recommend that aspiring lawyers (not currently employed by Talbots) who are interested in pursuing any type of qualification pathway apply for one of our current vacancies in the area of law which interests them most. If successful, we can then discuss career progression aspirations at interview and during the onboarding period.
Qualifying as a Solicitor at Talbots
With over 600 colleagues across our 19 regional offices, we typically start 10-15 new Trainees each year and therefore have around 20-25 Trainees and Solicitor Apprentices at any one time.
Our Trainee Solicitors and Solicitor Apprentices train and qualify under the supervision, guidance and support of Directors, Associates and Senior Associates. In addition to the expected practical work-based training and professional studies, Talbots Trainees take part in regular “Enhanced Training” workshops which are bespoke Director/Manager-led sessions covering the full range of legal services offered by the firm as well as workshops on BD/networking, compliance/CoC, finance/SARS etc.
Talbots encourages our Trainees to attend a wide range of networking activities across the region in addition to social events, charitable and other giving-back opportunities. The firm has developed a proven reputation for “training to retain” and seeing Training Contracts as the part of an ongoing career progression for future business leaders. Our retention rate for Trainees is very high and many of our previous Trainees have gone on to become leaders and specialists across the firm.
