The closing date has now passed for 2013 Traineeships.

To apply for a Traineeship in 2014, an online application form will be placed on the website this summer. 

You are our investment in the future and as such we are keen to recruit trainees of the highest calibre.

In Edinburgh there are 10 principal areas:

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

In Glasgow there are 4 principal areas:

Commercial Real Estate    Employment
Dispute Resolution              Private Client

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, Construction & Engineering 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 & Engineering, Planning 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.