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160 partners
1648 staff

Three-time winner of 'Law Firm of the Year' at leading industry awards.

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For vacation schemes and training contracts, your first step is to apply on our website via an online application form. If your application is successful, you'll be invited to an assessment centre designed for the route you've chosen (vacation scheme or direct training contract). Throughout the day, there'll be an interview, a presentation and a group exercise.

If you join us for a vacation scheme, further assessments will be built in to the week so you won't need to make a separate training contract application.

Apply here: trainee lawyers – TLT LLP

How to apply

www.tlt.com

Applications to

Ms Eleanor Russell

Method of application

Online Application Form

Method of assessment

  • Assessment centre
  • Partner interview
  • Presentation

Your work here matters. We help businesses make big decisions, giving clients insight that prepares them for the future. We take our responsibility to business, community and the planet seriously, constantly evolving how and why we do things. We’re progressing fast, seeking fresh ideas to shape the future 

Operating in all UK jurisdictions and across seven sectors, it combines traditional legal practices with a commercially agile mindset to create successful solutions for clients. 

We’re successful because we challenge convention and don’t let tradition stand in our way. We’re proud to do things differently. Individual thinking matters to us. We trust you to deliver great work for great clients, whatever your role. 

Being part of TLT means you’ll get the chance to drive action. New ideas spark positive change. So, we encourage you to be bold and creative because your ideas will make progress happen.  

Your work here matters. We help businesses make big decisions, giving clients insight that prepares them for the future. We take our responsibility to business, community and the planet seriously, constantly evolving how and why we do things.   

Our training programme puts you at the heart of the action, you’ll work on live projects and forge a career that rewards you. This is your opportunity to push boundaries, question convention, and solve complex problems. And as you build your skills, you can decide where your career takes you. You’ll be part of an open and collaborative team where you can approach anyone for a conversation and get involved in causes that you care about. 

TLT is a full-service commercial law firm with proven and award-winning expertise working in the clean energy; financial services; retail and consumer goods; digital; leisure, food and drink; public sector; and real estate sectors for a range of start-ups through to high-profile clients. 

Your tailored programme provides opportunities for you to gain technical legal knowledge, business development experience, regular client contact and soft skills training. We offer training contracts in Bristol, London, Manchester, Glasgow and Belfast. Rotating across four different parts of the business, you’ll get the chance to drive action, to be bold and creative. You can be open about who you are and what you stand for – we encourage everyone to be their whole self, to have a voice and to contribute.  

At TLT, we see a world of opportunity – in law, in business and in everyone who works with us. You set the pace and we’ll give you the support to keep learning throughout your career. 

We help businesses make big decisions, giving clients insight that prepares them for the future. Our sector approach is key, we aren’t just knowledgeable about our client’s business, but the whole industry in which they operate, helping them to make comprehensive and trusted decisions. 

Our ambition matches yours; we’ve grown rapidly, and we always strive to do more. We are an award-winning firm award-winning team, over 60 of our lawyers are ranked as “Leaders in their Field”, and a recognised development programme. We’re progressing fast, seeking fresh ideas to shape the future.  

Our training programme puts you at the heart of the action, you can voice your ideas and get stuck into live projects. Your tailored programme provides opportunities for you to gain technical legal knowledge, business development experience, regular client contact and soft skills training. You’ll get the chance to drive action, to be bold and creative. The work we do together will impact our clients, our communities, and colleagues; your work here will matter, whatever role you’re in.  

At TLT, everyone is welcome. You can be open about who you are and what you stand for - we encourage everyone to be their whole self, to have a voice and to contribute.  This is your opportunity to push boundaries, question convention, and solve complex problems. And as you build your skills, you can decide where your career takes you. You’ll be part of an open and collaborative team where you can approach anyone for a conversation and get involved in causes that you care about. 

Be bold, be curious and join us for what comes next.  

The TLT vacation scheme is a paid work experience programme whereby you will work on live legal work under the supervision of a fee-earning member of staff. The vacation scheme is designed to provide you with an insight into the life of a trainee solicitor at TLT, working with our clients to provide a range of legal services.  

No two days will be the same, however, your time with TLT will consist of: working on live cases; attending meetings; attending court/events with your team; reviewing documentation; attending social events; and really just experiencing our culture first-hand. 

Those who attend the vacation scheme will be considered for a training contract with TLT.

Apply here: trainee lawyers – TLT LLP

TLT is a place where ambition and drive really matter. We want lawyers that push boundaries, ask questions and can solve complex problems.

Our training programme puts you at the heart of the action, you’ll work on live projects and forge a career that rewards you. This is your opportunity to push boundaries, question convention, and solve complex problems. And as you build your skills, you can decide where your career takes you. You’ll be part of an open and collaborative team where you can approach anyone for a conversation and get involved in causes that you care about.

Our four-seat training contract gives you the opportunity to grow your legal knowledge and business development experience. It puts you right at the heart of the action and is all about giving you real work, creating real results and getting recognition for your achievements.

We work with clients from the clean energy; digital; financial services; leisure; food and drink; public sector; real estate; and retail and consumer goods sectors. You will work in four different parts of our firm for six months each. This four-seat rotation process, including a contentious seat, gives you a fantastic opportunity to really experience the way we work and helps you to become an informed business advisor.

Your supervisor will work with you to boost your technical legal knowledge and sharpen your commercial instincts. Alongside your in-seat training, our trainee development workshops will help you develop the right mindset for success as well as the focus and resilience you need for a career in law.

We’re successful because we challenge convention and don’t let tradition stand in our way. We’re proud to do things differently. Individual thinking matters to us. We trust you to deliver great work for great clients, whatever your role. We look for candidates that have a commercially-agile mindset.

Apply here: trainee lawyers – TLT LLP

TLT is now committed to the Solicitors Qualifying Examination as a route to qualification and will only facilitate and sponsor studying this with our preferred training provider.

If you haven’t already taken them, we’ll cover your GDL and SQE fees and give you a maintenance grant. That way, you can concentrate on making the most of your training contract.

  • Banking litigation
  • Commercial dispute resolution
  • Construction
  • Banking & restructuring
  • Corporate recovery & insolvency
  • Corporate
  • Commercial
  • Employment
  • Commercial property
  • Social housing
  • Planning
  • Family
  • Tax
  • Estate planning
  • Pensions
  • incentives
  • IP & technology
  • Professional negligence
  • Financial services regulatory
  • Commercial/IP
  • Energy
  • Renewables
  • Corporate & Commercial
  • General Commercial
  • General Practice
  • Niche

Practice Areas

Extra info

One Redcliff Street, Bristol, BS1 6TP
Phone: 0333 006 1880
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.tlt.com/careers/trainees
Training programmes offered:
  • Solicitor apprenticeship
  • Training contract/QWE
Work placement: Yes
Number of work placements: 50
Minimum qualification: 2:1 degree or above, any discipline
Start salary: Competitive
Fees paid for:
  • CPE/GDL
  • SQE
Turnover: £44,500,000 (2012)
Profit per partner: £255,000 (2012)
Training programme applications: 1,136 (2020)
Retention rate: 94% (2020)
Partner diversity:
  • 73.0% male (2020)
  • 27.0% female
Has client secondments: Yes
Client secondments:
  • Banks
  • Energy companies
  • Leisure and tourism
  • Media and TV organisations
  • Birmingham
  • Bristol
  • Edinburgh
  • Glasgow
  • London
  • Belfast
  • Manchester
  • Aspiring Solicitors
  • Bright Network
  • Business Disability Forum
  • Legal Apprenticeships
  • Rare Recruitment
  • Social Mobility Business Partnership
  • Stonewall
  • WCAN: the Black Women's Network