Trainee Solicitor (Justice First Fellowship)

Coram; City Of London; On-site; GBP 29,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading children's charity in the UK is offering a two-year Trainee Solicitor position starting in April 2026. The role is designed for individuals on the Legal Practice Course or Solicitors Qualifying Examinations route, providing training in immigration, family, education, and community care law. The successful candidate will participate in meaningful legal casework while benefiting from a supportive peer network. Applications are due by November 28, 2025.

Qualifications

• Candidates must have completed the LPC by March 14, 2026, or SQE Part 1.
• Experience or knowledge in immigration, family, education, and community care law is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Support legal casework and provide advice to clients.
• Complete a project to enhance community support beyond legal work.
• Gain experience across multiple practice areas under supervision.

Skills

Legal writing

Consultation skills

Research skills

Team collaboration

Education

Completion of LPC or SQE Part 1

Job description

Job Title - Trainee Solicitor (Justice First Fellowship)

Contract - 2 years fixed term

Hours 35 hours per week

Salary Range - £28,090 per annum

Location - London office - Coram Campus, 41 Brunswick Square, London WC1N 1AZ

About Coram

Coram is the UKs oldest childrens charity founded by Thomas Coram in London helping vulnerable children and young people since 1739. Today, the Coram group helps more than one million children, young people, families and professionals every year by providing access to the skills and opportunities they need to thrive.

Part of the Coram group, Coram Childrens Legal Centre (CCLC) is the UKs specialist centre for childrens rights in education, immigration, community care and family law, and provides significant international legal systems consultancy. The centre is located on the Coram Campus in central London with a base in Colchester. We champion access to justice through information and advice, legal practice and representation, policy and strategic litigation. Our Legal Practice Unit (LPU) provides advice and representation primarily under legal aid contract. Our Policy and Practice Change team promotes practice change through training and capacity building to professionals and secures systems change through research, policy and advocacy. We use our broad and significant experience and expertise to promote and protect the rights of children in line with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

For further information on CCLC please visit .

About the role

At CCLC we are committed to training and supporting the development of the next generation of social justice legal aid lawyers. CCLC is therefore delighted to have received funding from the Justice First Fellowship to host a two-year trainee solicitor position beginning in April 2026.

The role is open to those on the Legal Practice Course (LPC) or Solicitors Qualifying Examinations (SQE) route to qualification. In particular, the eligibility requirements are that candidates have completed and passed the LPC by 14 March 2026 or have an undergraduate degree and have completed and passed SQE Part 1 by 14 March 2026.

The successful candidate will be supported by our highly experienced supervising solicitors and will have the opportunity to gain experience across two or three areas of our practice : immigration and asylum, family, education and community care law. Working under supervision, the trainee will receive excellent training and supervision in order to deliver high quality legal casework and advice to clients.

The trainee will also complete a project aimed at broadening skill sets beyond the law to find new ways to support communities and increase the impact of our work. The legal centre is situated within the wider Coram group of charities all concerned with the welfare of children. The trainee will therefore have an opportunity to gain broader experience and insight into how casework evidence and experience is used to inform policy work that creates change at a systemic level.

Lastly the trainee will benefit from a peer support network as part of the cohort of fellows working across different host organisations, including through an annual residential.

To apply for this role, please access the Justice First Fellowship website here :

• Please note the application is made through the Justice First Fellowship webpage and not through the Coram Vacancies page. If you try to apply using the link above or below this will not take you to an application form.

Closing date : 28th November 2025

Interview dates : Tuesday 27th or Wednesday 28th January 2026

Coram is an equal opportunities employer and we believe a diverse workforce enables us to improve the services to the children and families we help. We are genuinely committed to encouraging candidates from all sections of the community we seek to support. This includes those from, Asian, African, Caribbean and other minority ethnic backgrounds, those that identify as LGBQT+, those with disabilities, those with lived experience of care, those with neuro-diversity, and those from other groups who are underrepresented at Coram.

If applicants feel comfortable, we would encourage them to draw on lived experience as well as professional experience in their personal statement as part of their application.

We are committed to the safeguarding of children and where appropriate will require the successful applicant to undertake a check from the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Registered Charity No. 312278.