Trainee Solicitor - September 2025 Cardiff, Wales
Job description
Training Contract
2 Years (Sept. 2025 Intake) – Full time (Mon-Fri, 9:00-17.30) – Location: Cardiff
Is this the start of your Capital Law journey?
Working nationally and internationally from our base in Wales, we offer all the legal services that a trading organisation needs.
We work with businesses of all sizes – from large corporations to those just starting up – across the private, public, and third sectors. We also have a consultancy business, Capital People, that specialises in HR and Health & Safety.
We’re made up of leading lawyers and consultants, who work closely with our clients to provide the best possible support.
Ultimately, we have one purpose: to help others succeed.
Mission
We exist to provide an outstanding legal and consulting service. We work in a modern, straightforward manner, in a way that our clients want. We work with good people to do good work.
Your Training Contract with Capital Law
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.
What can you expect?
Capital Law adopts a hands-on approach across all aspects of its work experience offerings. 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, in each of the following areas of law:
- Commercial Disputes
- Corporate & Commercial
- Real Estate
- Employment & Immigration
We will endeavour where possible to place individuals into an area of preference, however, cannot guarantee this.
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 for each seat. 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.
Who can apply?
If you’ve started your third year of university, GDL or LPC, or in a position to study via the SQE route and would like to apply, please submit your CV and covering letter via the Capital Law website.
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. You will need to be within commutable distance to our Cardiff office for the duration of the training contract. Whilst we are committed to hybrid working, we understand the need for our trainees to work alongside our solicitors in person as much as possible; for better learning and supervision.
Please ensure you attach both cover letter and CV in your application (you will need to save it as one document to upload), we look forward to reading them!
Applications will close at Midnight on Friday 1st December 2023, we will not be able to accept any after this date.
Capital Law is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community – all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age or veteran status. Capital Law is a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit, with our offering ensuring support is provided to individuals from all walks of life.
Job Type: Fixed term contract
Contract length: 24 months
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Flexitime
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Language training provided
- On-site parking
- Private dental insurance
- Private medical insurance
- Referral programme
- Work from home
Schedule:
- Flexitime
- Monday to Friday
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Cardiff, CF10 4AZ: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Work Location: In person
Application deadline: 01/12/2023
Expected start date: 01/09/2025
