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We are looking for trainees with strong academic ability, who will be able to cope with complex legal issues and technical drafting. We recruit from a wide range of universities, taking both law and non-law graduates who have achieved a degree at 2:1 level or above. Our assessment process reflects our high standards but is designed to put candidates at their ease, give them a flavour of the firm and enable them to perform at their best. We use a variety of assessments including two partner/HR interviews, a written exercise, presentation and case study.
As ours is very much a people business, candidates must demonstrate strong presentation and communication skills, as well as the ability to work well in teams. Applicants should be commercially aware and demonstrate a keen interest in our work. They will also be proactive, enthusiastic and have a sense of humour.
A career with Peters & Peters will be both exciting and challenging and we require individuals who are tenacious, driven and committed to taking on a steep learning curve. In return you will benefit from early responsibility, a rewarding career, plenty of support and the opportunity to carry out high quality and stimulating legal work.
How to apply
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Tayla Wills
Method of application
Online application formMethod of assessment
- HR-led interview
- Partner interview
- Presentation
- Written exercise
Peters & Peters is a specialist practice focused on heavyweight international disputes, especially business crime and investigations, and fraud and commercial disputes. We act for governments, corporations, financial institutions, professionals, executives and high net worth individuals. We also regularly advise foreign regulators and international organisations.
Many of our cases are high profile, complex and international in nature. Peters & Peters has been ranked as ‘top tier’ by the leading legal directories across its practice for many years.
The firm prides itself on being able to provide a welcoming, supportive and collegiate environment, exposure to high quality work and the opportunity to work with some of the most talented lawyers in our fields of practice.
Peters & Peters was also one of the first practices to develop a multi-disciplinary approach to fraud cases, handling both civil and criminal proceedings, including asset recovery matters. In doing so it has forged close working relationships with foreign law firms.
As a trainee you will spend time within our two departments (business crime and commercial litigation/civil fraud) and, in most cases, will also have the opportunity to experience a different area of law through an external secondment. The firm deliberately has a small trainee intake to ensure quality training, exposure to a wide range of practice areas and to maintain our excellent trainee retention rates.
Peters & Peters is a friendly firm, with a supportive culture and regular social and CSR activities. We value our trainees highly and make every effort to assist them in becoming fully integrated into the firm. Each trainee will be allocated a mentor and benefit from comprehensive training, ongoing feedback and regular performance reviews. Our trainees sit with a partner or experienced lawyer and will have the opportunity to get involved in all aspects of the firm’s work including client meetings, business development activities and often international travel.
We will be open to receiving applications for our 2025 training contracts from candidates completing both the LPC and SQE qualification routes. Please indicate on your application form which route you plan to take.
Peters & Peters is committed to justice in everything we do: for our clients, our communities, our planet and our people. Our mission is to foster an inclusive environment where everyone feels valued and treated with respect.
Our diversity allies are responsible for promoting events and activities for each diversity strand. Recent examples include an official weekly tea-break following 'Time to Talk Day'; an external speaker sharing their experiences of living with Aspergers; and a partner-led interview discussing the history of PRIDE.
As a strong advocate of the Law Society’s Diversity & Inclusion Framework, we take our responsibilities seriously. We have appointed a partner level diversity champion and mental health champion, and through our bi-annual diversity and inclusion strategy, aim to set ourselves challenging objectives to ensure progress and accountability. All employees receive regular diversity training and we have implemented new systems to enable us to track and publish our diversity statistics.
To enable us to attract and retain a more diverse mix of high calibre applicants we regularly recruit apprentices, will be repeating our unconscious bias training, reimburse trainees’ LPC and SQE fees and carry out blind application screening. We are also delighted this year to have implemented upReach's contextualised recruitment tool for our graduate applications to help level the playing field. In addition, we have recently reviewed our diversity policies; implemented 'Springboard', a social mobility focussed work experience programme; and signed up to the Women in Law Pledge and the London Living Wage Accreditation.
We offer full financial support for the LPC and SQE fees.
- Business crime
- Commercial litigation/civil fraud
- Normally an external secondment
- Niche
Practice Areas
Extra info
Phone: 020 7822 7777
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.petersandpeters.com/careers/trainee-solicitors
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| Work placement: | No |
| Minimum qualification: | 2:1 |
| Start salary: | £42,000 |
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| Training programme applications: | 170 (2023) |
| Retention rate: | 100% (2023) |
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- London
- Citizens Advice Bureau
- Fair Trials International
- Access Aspiration
- Halo Code
- Law Society Diversity and Inclusion Charter
- London Living Wage
- Pegasus Access Scheme
- The Women in Law Pledge
- upReach
