The firm is divided into departments and each trainee is likely to spend six months of his or her time in each of four different Departments. He or she will receive experience in Litigation, Property and Banking work and during the period of training the trainee is likely to deal with a wide variety of other areas as well, for example Construction, Company and Commercial Law, Employment Law and Liquor Licensing matters. The exact nature of work and the areas covered will of course vary depending on circumstances.

Trainees are encouraged to take responsibility for their own work under supervision of a partner, and are given regular appraisals. They are expected to deal directly with clients.

Particular importance is placed on continuing legal education. As well as making use of external Seminars, the firm holds monthly lunch-time Seminars in the office. These Seminars (which are recognised by the Law Society for Continuing Education time) cover a variety of topics of use to a solicitor, not all of them on strictly legal topics.

Because of our size we are able to involve all members of the firm in the development and marketing of the practice. We encourage our trainees to stay on with us when their training contract finishes if we have a suitable vacancy in a Department which interests them.

If you wish to apply for a Training Contract with us, please save the following link: Training Application Form. You will need Microsoft WORD to read and print the application form.

We do not have any training contracts available for 2008. We accept training contract application forms between 1st January and 22nd June in the year preceding the year for which you are applying. The completed form should be e-mailed to with a short covering message. If you do not hear from us before 1st July in the year in which you send in your application form, this means that your application has not been successful.