Michelmores LLP
Woodwater House,
Pynes Hill,
Exeter,
EX2 5WR
Website www.michelmores.com
Michelmores is a leading, full service law firm with offices in Bristol, Exeter, Cheltenham and London, with a growing national and international client base. We want to be the destination law firm for the ambitious, the imaginative and the distinctive. We help enterprises and individuals navigating change to find a positive future.
Our 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.
We are committed to growing Michelmores into a more diverse and equitable business, with a visible strategic vision, Destination 2030. Our clients face relentless change and our vision is to guide clients towards an enduring, sustainable and resilient future.
We offer our trainees a high level of responsibility, together with a supportive and inclusive training environment where everyone can realise their potential. We put a strong emphasis on home grown talent and retaining our trainee solicitors, who are central to our growth plans. We want to hire trainees that are going to go onto build a successful career with us.
Michelmores is a full service firm, providing legal advice to a broad range of local, national and international clients.
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, Contentious Probate, 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. Operating as one firm, we offer trainees a high level of responsibility and a supportive and inclusive training environment, where each individual is able to realise their potential. We support our trainees to choose the seats that will help develop their knowledge and skills, give them a breadth of understanding and go onto become they best solicitor they can be. Trainees are a vital part of our firm and our continued growth.
Our summer vacation scheme runs the last week of June in our Bristol office and first week of July in Exeter. 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.