Boodle Hatfield is a highly successful London law firm with a heritage spanning almost 300 years advising wealthy families, property investors, landed estates, entrepreneurs and family businesses. Today, much of our work has an international dimension as many internationally mobile clients turn to us to help them structure and preserve their wealth or to advise them on their property investments and business activities in the UK.

The interplay of the skills between our five major areas - private wealth, property, corporate, litigation and family – makes us particular well placed to serve these individuals and businesses from our offices in London (Bankside and Mayfair) and Oxford.

Applications for the 2024 vacation scheme should be submitted via the application form on the website at www.boodlehatfield.com from 1 November 2023 to 31 January 2024.

Trainees spend six months in up to four of the firm’s main areas: private client and tax, property, corporate, litigation and family. Boodle Hatfield is well known for the high quality of its training. All trainees are involved in client work from the start and are encouraged to handle their own files personally as soon as they are able to do so, (with the appropriate supervision). The firm’s trainees therefore have a greater degree of client contact than in many firms with the result that they should be able to take on more responsibility at an early stage. Trainees are assigned a supervisor in each seat and are given formal appraisals every three months which are designed as a two-way process and give trainees the chance to discuss their progress and to indicate where more can be done to help in their ongoing training and development.

The qualities the firm looks for in their trainees are commitment, flexibility and the ability to work as part of a team and a minimum of 2.1 at university.

Payment of course fees, plus a maintenance grant of £8,000 per year of study, is offered to future trainees who have yet to complete their PGDL, LPC or SQE.

• Private client & tax
• Property
• Corporate
• Litigation
• Family

• Corporate & Commercial
• General Commercial
• Niche

• London
• Oxford