We're Looking for Trainee Solicitors
We’re Looking for Trainee Solicitors
Are you degree-educated or about to graduate? Have you achieved LPC or SQE1 and SQE2? Is your written English proficient, and do you have ambition, commercial awareness and team spirit? If you have the right to work in the UK and are looking for a place not simply to work but to belong and thrive, Wilkinson Woodward would like to hear from you.
Our deadline for applications is 6th January 2025. For more information on how to apply, take a look at our Trainee Recruitment page.
Hands on experience
To become a well-rounded solicitor, it’s important that trainees get to experience the spectrum of legal disciplines. At Wilkinson Woodward, this will include everything from property and probate to employment and civil litigation. You’ll also get to work with and learn from our highly experienced colleagues.
As getting involved is a key part of developing your legal skills and helping you thrive, Wilkinson Woodward trainees get hands-on experience working as part of the team. You’ll deal with real challenges, take care of actual files and make genuine differences.
A supportive place to work
Everybody needs support, and that’s why it is a cornerstone of our workplace culture. From day one, our trainee buddy scheme will help you settle in, get to know the team and the other trainees, and provide the support and nurturing to help you complete your training successfully. Of course, support doesn’t stop there. As part of the Wilkinson Woodward family, we’re there for all our staff, right through their careers.
Personal/professional balance
At Wilkinson Woodward, we fully appreciate that our staff have lives beyond the workplace. For this reason, we expect a work-life balance that is reasonable and that values and respects both the personal and professional parts of your life.
More than just work
Building strong relationships is important to us, that’s why we provide regular opportunities for staff to socialise outside of work. Sometimes these are purely social events, but they can also involve helping the local charities the firm supports.
Some of the many charity events the team have attended or taken part in include the Huddersfield Literature Festival, the Brighouse 1940s Weekend, the Brighouse Christmas Market, the K9 Party in the Park and the Overgate Golf Day. We also have our own annual charity quiz every year at the Shay Stadium. Staff have also taken part in social events like charcuterie and curry evenings, rounders tournaments, charity walks and hosting Macmillan Coffee Mornings with Great British Bake Off-style baking competitions.
Success of our former trainees
Across our Halifax, Huddersfield and Brighouse offices, we have several members of staff who have trained with us and stayed to forge their legal careers.
Rachel Hunt who started as a part-time receptionist while studying for her degree, went on to work as a paralegal before training with us as a solicitor. She now works as a residential property solicitor. Daniel Cawthorn joined us as a legal assistant and is now a Residential & Commercial Property Solicitor, and Nicola Webb started as a secretary and is now a Wills and Probate Executive. Two former trainees are now Director Solicitors with the firm. Shelley McLachlan, who qualified in 2016, is now the Director of Children and Care Proceedings and Laura Kurowski, who qualified in 2008, is the Director of Commercial and Residential Conveyancing.
At Wilkinson Woodward we strongly believe career development is vital for the future of the firm. As such, we encourage and support our team. Conveyancing Executive, Igors Scepecs, who originally joined the firm as a legal assistant, is now undertaking his training contract to become a qualified solicitor. Emma Gregory, meanwhile, started as a secretary in the Family Department and is now a legal assistant in the Conveyancing Department.