Wilsons is ranked as one of the top private client and charity law firms in the country, our almost 300 year heritage, combined with lawyers who are recognised leaders in their fields, enables Wilsons to provide a unique combination of skills and experience to our clients. Our lawyers are dedicated to ensuring a detailed understanding of their clients' interests and a seamless working relationship across the different specialities of the practice.

Private client

Acting for clients with business interests, landed and inherited wealth, foreign domicillaries, UK and offshore trustees and non-resident individuals with links to the UK. We provide tax planning, estate and succession planning, asset structuring, UK and offshore trust formation and advice, wills and trusts and estate administration and probates and intestacies valued up to £50m.

Family

The team's expertise ranges from pre-nuptial agreements and civil partnerships to divorce, children's arrangements and surrogacy law.

Property

Our clients have substantial commercial, agricultural and residential property interests and the firm advises on purchasing, letting and sales, and has a reputation for gaining excellent results in the options over and sales of development land. Our leading rural team has developed a practice centred on the needs of rural business and landowners. These include complex sales and purchases, development options for landowners, grants and diversification advice and property litigation, including landlord and tenant, partnership matters, boundary, title and rights of way disputes.

Commercial

Specialising in employment and corporate work. The corporate work focuses on commercial tax and asset planning, transactions and refinancing. The team deals with an unusual breadth of work requiring high-quality, bespoke commercial advice.

Contentious

With one of the largest teams outside London we advise clients on a wide range of contentious matters to provide an efficient and effective means of dispute resolution. In addition to its expertise in agricultural and probate disputes, the firm has specialists who can advise on all aspects of commercial dispute claims and reputation management.

Charity

One of the most highly ranked teams in the UK. We advise on the complete range of legal needs and have a particular specialism in contentious and non contentious legacy work. The constitutional and governance team has considerable expertise in advising military charities and the charitable care sector.

We run our work placement scheme in June of each year. The work placement scheme runs for one week, five students will rotate around five different departments during the week, enabling you to gain experience of five different areas of law.

The deadline for applications is 31 March 2023.

Application forms can be found on the firms website and should be sent to Mrs Jo Ratcliffe.

Our two-year training contract enables our trainees to sample four disciplines in six-month seats. 

Our trainees represent a long term investment for us and we hope you will be able to remain with us on qualification. We aim to give you responsibility from early on in your training contract in order to give you the best training possible.

We offer an interest-free loan towards the LPC. Further details can be obtained from the human resources team.

• Contentious trusts & probate
• Property & commercial litigation
• Family
• Property
• Private client
• Employment & education
• Company commercial

• Corporate & Commercial
• General Commercial
• General Practice
• Niche

• Salisbury