Job Description
How to Apply
Alongside your CV, you must submit a Personal Summary/Cover Letter as a separate document, answering the below set questions. There is a word limit of 300 words per question.
- Why do you want to qualify as a solicitor and specifically at Porter Dodson.
- Tell us about something interesting you have read in the legal news recently and why this has interested you?
- Which areas of law interest you most, and what recent or upcoming changes do you think will affect that area? How should Porter Dodson respond?
- Tell us about your proudest achievement and what it demonstrates about you as a future solicitor.
Training Contract Overview
To provide legal and administrative support to solicitors and legal teams while undertaking the training contract. This structured training programme combines multiple learning and teaching methods consisting of practical work-based tasks, shadowing, self-study and reflection, as difficulty level and workload increase throughout each seat, to ensure successful qualification as a Solicitor. The training contract structure consists of 4 departmental seats with a seat rotation every 6 months where trainee solicitors will rotate to a different department to gain experience in different legal disciplines and expand their legal knowledge.