Michelmores LLP
Michelmores is a leading, full-service law firm, with ambitions to grow and become the destination law firm for the ambitious, the imaginative and the distinctive. We're always focused on delivering outstanding client service and helping our clients stay ahead in a fast-changing world.
With offices in Bristol, Exeter, Cheltenham and London, and a growing national and international client baseOur collaborative, creative and commercial people focus on our clients’ futures, wherever they need us. We understand what our clients need to do to stay ahead, and that’s what we deliver.
As a firm, we never want our people to stop learning, being curious and trying new things. We really care about what we stand for, and we want our people to care too.
We always strive to be different, to behave differently, to be more open, more human. We do exceptional, high-quality work for forward thinking clients.
At Michelmores, our trainees are trusted with meaningful work from day one. You’ll be given responsibility early on – backed by a supportive, inclusive environment designed to help you grow, develop and thrive.
We’re passionate about nurturing talent and creating the firms future leaders. That’s why we invest heavily in your training and development, and why so many of our trainees go on to build long and successful careers with us.
If you're proactive, adaptable, curious and ready to make an impact, then this is the firm for you.
As we are full service, we provide advice to a range of local, national and international clients across our practice areas.
Our Teams include:
Real Estate: Projects & Infrastructure, Construction & Engineering, Planning, Transactional Real Estate and Property Litigation
Business Services: Banking, Restructuring & Insolvency, Commercial, Commercial & Regulatory Disputes, Corporate and Employment
Private Client: Agriculture, Disputed Wills & Estates, Family, Private Property & Landed Estates and Tax, Trusts & Succession
Our trainees join us in either our Exeter or Bristol office and have the opportunity to complete a 6 month secondment in our London office. Trainees can qualify into any location. Our training contracts comprise of four seats of six months and enable our trainees to experience a wide range of teams. We encourage our trainees to experience at least 2 of our practice areas and both contentious and non contentious work, offering a rounded experience. Throughout your seats you'll be given a high level of responsibility, challenged, and supported to develop your knowledge and skills. We want our trainees to be our future leaders, so we invest heavily in our future talent development to ensure we grow exceptional solicitors who think creatively, commercially and work collaboratively. We want our trainees to be proactive, adaptable and curious to learn.
Our summer vacation scheme runs for one week in our Bristol and Exeter offices in June. The scheme is as much about you getting to know Michelmores as it is about us getting to know you. We want you to experience who we are, what we offer and decide if we are the firm where you would like to start your career. You will have the opportunity to spend time in one team for the week, as we aim to give you a real hands-on insight into one area of law and life as a trainee. Our vacation scheme is open to all undergraduates and graduates from any discipline, you can apply as long as you would be in a position to start your training contract within 2 years.
We want to encourage everyone to have an active lifestyle to maintain your health and wellbeing. We offer gym schemes, yoga and relaxation classes, running club, as well as a Cycle to Work Scheme. We proactively support mental wellbeing and promote a culture of openness about mental health. You will have access to a range of resources and activities across the year, including subscription to Headspace, guest speakers, and wellbeing apps. Should you or your loved ones need extra support, you will have access to qualified counsellors and behavioural therapists.
Our approach to agile working is to create a vibrant working environment, that gives our people greater choice over where they work. Where people choose to conduct their work should be activity led and based on discussions with their Team Leaders. We believe this approach enables our people to optimise their performance and deliver their best work. We encourage our trainees to be in the office at least 3 days a week to ensure they're benefitting from the expertise around them, have their supervisor close by to ask questions to and develop as much as they can. We also realise the importance of trainee solicitors learning to work both from the office and remotely so we do encourage you to have some working from home days too to suit you.
In addition to sponsoring the SQE and offering a £7,000 bursary, our benefits also include: private medical insurance; group personal pension plan; a day off for your birthday; ability to buy and sell holidays; a day off each year for volunteering; together with a range of social events and special interest groups. .