Seat System
During your two year training contract you will complete six four-month seats, not the traditional four, exposing you to a broad range of both specialist and core practice areas. The firm’s areas of work include corporate and commercial law, banking and finance, real estate, dispute resolution, planning, pensions and employment, IP/IT, tax, construction and engineering, projects and environmental law. In addition, there is a chance to undertake a seat in our Brussels office or on secondment to one of our clients.
The trainee resources team will sit down with you one-to-one halfway through each seat to discuss your progress and your preferences for future seats. This will ensure you receive personalised advice and support. You will experience a variety of challenging work across every seat, and projects will be selected to challenge your energy, commitment and ability – and to enable you to make an informed choice on where you wish to qualify. Your sixth seat will be spent in the department you’ve chosen to qualify into. This means that by the time you qualify you will have eight months experience in that specific area, making for a much smoother transition.
