Training Contract
We recruit exceptional candidates and support you through your career. We want to build our business with the best possible clients, so we need to attract the best possible lawyers, by encouraging a diverse and interesting workforce.
We’ll give you the knowledge and skills to carry out your job with excellence. Lawyers need a vast range of skills to work effectively in a commercial environment, and your personal development is important to us. Our Trainee Induction Programme is specifically tailored to maximise your potential.
On a six-month rotation, you’ll work with a range of teams and lawyers, ensuring a high level of experience, across sectors, working on complex cases, underpinned by support from us.
If you’ve started your third year of university, GDL or LPC, and would like to apply, please submit your CV and covering letter, below.
Training at Capital has been a great experience — and I've been offered a job in the busy Commercial Disputes team as a result. You learn a huge amount, very quickly, and every day is different.
Vacation Scheme
We understand the importance of gaining proactive work experience and believe that it adds great value to those wishing to pursue a career in law.
The scheme has been designed to help improve your skills and legal knowledge, while giving us a chance to get to know you better. During the process, you will get to meet a range of lawyers from our trainees to our partners. You will learn about our structure of work and training, and get exposure to live cases and transactions.
You will experience what it’s like to work at Capital, and get a feel for our culture. Ensuring your experience is the right one is as vital for you as it is for us.
We aim to provide participants with the opportunity to work on ‘live’ matters, whilst integrating them in the day-to-day running of the firm. You’ll be placed in one seat for the 2-week duration, in one of the following areas of law:
- Commercial Disputes
- Corporate & Commercial
- Real Estate
- Employment & Immigration
Where possible, we’ll try our best to place you in your area of preference.
You can expect the experience to be varied, informative but most importantly of value to you. You will be assigned a ‘buddy’ from within the firm, as well as a supervisor from the area of law you are placed in. In addition to the work you will be doing within the team, there will be a range of workshops, group activities, presentations, networking events giving you exposure to engage with colleagues across the firm at all levels.
Applications will be assessed by our Talent Team as we receive them, and if shortlisted you’ll be invited to attend a telephone interview with our Talent Coordinator.
If successful, we’ll invite you to our Assessment Centre, which takes place early February. We’ll confirm arrangements nearer the time, however you can expect to be with us for the majority of the day.
You will get to meet our current Trainees during this time and ask them any questions about the process and their experience with us.
Throughout, we’ll be looking to see how you perform under pressure, how you respond to challenging questions and situations, and how good you are at formulating an argument. We want to see that you use your initiative, are collaborative, are goal-orientated and can communicate effectively.
Candidates that have either completed or are in the process of completing an undergraduate degree in any discipline. You will need to have completed your second year at university to be eligible to apply.
If you’re looking for an experience where your ideas are welcomed, and the chance to make a good impression with Capital Law whilst enhancing your legal skillset, we’d like to hear from you.
- Applications for our Vacation Scheme are open from 1 October 2023 until midnight on 31 December 2023
- Assessment Centre — 12 March 2024
Benefits
Ultimately, we want to make your life easier.
We have a grown-up approach to working hours, and thanks to our ongoing investment in technology we’re able to fully embrace the opportunities of remote working. We also offer competitive annual leave entitlements, and the option to buy (or sell) annual leave.
Your wellbeing is our priority. In addition to a health cash plan, life assurance, pension, and enhanced maternity & paternity pay, you can benefit from our cycle to work scheme, free yoga, free flu vaccinations, and subsidised chiropractor visits.
We’re regularly reviewing our benefits to take into account our employees’ evolving needs, based on their own feedback.
Rewards
We offer a competitive salary and a generous recruitment referral scheme.
Our lawyers get the chance to be promoted twice a year, and any colleague or team can be rewarded at any time via our internal recognition scheme. Rewards include but are not limited to gift vouchers, time off, and recognition payments.
We encourage progression and do it in an organic way. We don’t believe in restricting on numbers or length of service, but in rewarding great work by great people.