Traineeships

We have now completed 2011 trainee recruitment. 

You are our investment in the future and as such we are keen to recruit trainees of the highest calibre. You will have client contact and hands on experience from the start within a leading, full service Scottish law firm.

Click here to view a copy of our Trainee Brochure.

In Edinburgh there are 10 principal areas:

Commercial Real Estate  Family Law
Construction & Projects    Land Resources
Corporate                            Parliamentary & Public Law
Dispute Resolution           Planning & Environment
Employment                       Private Client

In Glasgow there are 6 principal areas:

Commercial Real Estate     Employment
Corporate                               Private Client
Dispute Resolution              Residential

In addition, we may be able to offer in Edinburgh a specialist rotation for each of the Private Client, Property, Commercial and Litigation Departments.

  • The Private Client specialist rotation would involve four seats from the following: Private Client, Land Resources, Property Litigation and Family Law.
  • The Property specialist rotation would involve four seats from the following: Commercial Real Estate, Land Resources, Planning & Environment, Construction & Projects and Property Litigation.
  • The Commercial specialist rotation would involve four seats from the following: Commercial Real Estate, Corporate, Commercial Litigation, Banking Litigation and Employment.
  • The Litigation specialist rotation would involve four seats from the following: Insurance Litigation, Public & Regulatory Law, Construction & Projects, Planning & Environment and Healthcare.

As a trainee - you will gain experience in four different legal areas over a two year period and we will do our best to assign you to the areas you are most interested in. Your mentor for each six month seat will hold regular review meetings with you and will support and guide you as you take on responsibility for your own cases. We are committed to retaining our Investors in People accreditation and you will be able to take advantage of our in-house training programme.

But it won't be all work and no play. We consider inter-personal skills to be just as important as academic ability. Sporting events and fun nights out are organised throughout the year and we enjoy the benefits of a flexi-time system.