Our six seat training contract
We do things a little differently at Nabarro. Our Training Contract is a case in point. With two extra seats, it’s designed to help get your career off to a flying start…
A few of the 35 trainees who join us each year arrive knowing exactly which area of law they want to specialise in, but most are still some way from making this decision. Our Training Contract is designed with this in mind. Consisting of six four month seats, rather than the traditional four, it enables trainees to gain valuable experience in a wider range of both specialist and core practice areas – as well as getting to know more people within the firm.
Once you start, our Trainee Resources team will monitor your progress closely, sitting down with you at the half-way point of each seat to discuss your progress, and your next move: the aim is to tailor your Training Contract to your needs and ambitions. From the outset, you’ll be given real responsibility and challenging assignments. Depending on the department, you may attend client meetings or court, as well as drafting contracts and developing legal advice on important topics. Above all, your commercial awareness will be tested and developed; we’ll be training you not just in the technicalities of the law, but in the Nabarro way of practising law.
As your training contract progresses, you’ll acquire greater clarity about your future career as a lawyer. And for your sixth and final seat, you can return to the department you have chosen to qualify into. We aim to retain all our trainees on qualification and do in the vast majority of cases; a claim fully supported by our average retention figure of 90% over the last three years.
