Trainee Solicitor

Wolferstans Solicitors; Plymouth; In loco; GBP 32.000 - 36.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

FQPS Academy Ltd. offers a training contract designed to support aspiring solicitors through hands-on experience, alongside trusted legal experts.

You will develop practical knowledge, professional judgment, and commercial awareness across a broad range of matters to build a solid foundation for your legal career. Under supervision and with seat rotations, you will gain insight into client care, interviewing, research, drafting, and advocacy while growing your technical and professional skills

Competenze

• Legal trainees will gain exposure to a broad range of matters.
• Supervised rotation across seats to build practical skills.
• Support from trusted legal experts to develop professional judgment.

Mansioni

• Conduct client interviews and assess legal problems.
• Provide legal advice and gather evidence.
• Prepare strategy and correspondence for client cases.
• Draft and negotiate documents, and make applications.
• Maintain client care, manage expectations and confidentiality.
• Communicate with clients and colleagues clearly and professionally.
• Work with team members and share progress and risks.
• Maintain a training and development log for self-improvement.

Conoscenze

Legal research

Client interviewing

Drafting documents

Communication

Teamwork

Descrizione del lavoro

To support lawyers with their caseload, developing legal knowledge, understanding, and confidence through hands on experience across a broad range of legal matters. Working alongside trusted legal experts, you will gain practical insight into legal practice, build essential professional skills, and develop the competencies required to grow both personally and professionally throughout your training.

To provide an exceptional legal experience for our clients while developing the technical expertise, commercial awareness, and professional judgement necessary to qualify and practise as a solicitor. Through exposure to a supportive and collaborative environment, you will be encouraged to take ownership of your development, broaden your experience, and build a strong foundation for a successful legal career.

Primary Responsibilities

Under supervision of an experienced lawyer and dependant on seat rotation, primary responsibilities are as follows:-

• Legal Advice and Knowledge
  • Conduct client interviews.
  • Assess legal problems and advise clients.
  • Conduct legal research and gather evidence.
  • Obtain information from relevant experts.
  • Prepare strategy for client case.
  • Prepare correspondence and replies to enquiries.
  • Make applications and draft/negotiate documents.
• Client Care
  • Provide exceptional legal experience to our clients through tailoring correspondence to client needs considering their personal circumstances and any particular vulnerability.
  • Identifying and taking reasonable steps to meet the service needs of all clients.
  • Identifying possible courses of action and their consequences and assisting clients in reaching a decision.
  • Managing clients’ expectations regarding options, the range of possible outcomes, risk and timescales.
• Communication
  • Draft letters and internal notes using the most appropriate method and style of communication for the situation and recipient.
  • Reporting to clients and other via telephone or in attendance at in person meeting.
  • Use clear, succinct and accurate language avoiding unnecessary technical terms.
  • Imparting any difficult or unwelcome news clearly and sensitively.
  • Maintaining empathy and confidentiality throughout.
• Team Work
  • Communicate and work effectively with team members.
  • Understanding of individual skillset, delegating tasks when appropriate.
  • Acknowledging and engaging with others’ expertise when appropriate
  • Keeping colleagues informed of progress of work, including any risks or problems.
  • Being clear about expectations.
• Personal Development
  • Maintain training and development log addressing continued self-appraisal.
  • Continue to develop and progress with legal career addressing technical and legal skills including:-
  • Interviewing and advising
  • Legal research
  • Negotiation
  • Drafting
  • Advocacy
  • Maintain training and development log addressing continued self-appraisal.

Will this role count as your QWE, and who will confirm it?

Check it against the SRA’s questions in two minutes. If there is no COLP or solicitor where you work, the SRA lets a solicitor outside confirm it: an FQPS solicitor can, from £149.