Cripps is a top 100 UK law firm, consistently recognised by Legal 500, Chambers UK and other independent legal directories for excellence across corporate, real estate, litigation and private client services. With offices, in London, Horsham and Tunbridge Wells, the firm offers an integrated team of more than 500 people. Cripps is B Corp certified, part of a global community of businesses aligning profit and purpose to create a more inclusive and sustainable economy. 

Cripps is committed to delivering exceptional client service, solving their problems, championing their ambitions and making a positive and lasting impact on the communities it serves. 

Cripps lawyers are either home-grown through the firm's comprehensive training contract and apprenticeship programmes or join from other high-quality, city, national and regaionl firms and are complemented by high-quality busines support professionals. The firm recruits people from all walks of life, who share its values: to care, imagine, enjoy and achieve. The firm believes strongly that the best ideas come from working with each other, not for each other regardliess of seniority. 

We offer a four-seat training contract providing genuine hands-on experience. Levels of responsibility are high with many trainees managing their own files under supervision.

Seats are based in our Tunbridge Wells office, Horsham and London offices with the opoortunity to have seats across all sites There are a number of seats to choose from across real estate, corporate and private client. We do our best to arrange seats in a trainee’s preferred areas, however, this cannot always be guaranteed.

We offer a comprehensive induction programme and support is provided regularly through structured reviews and on-the-job coaching.

Trainees will also be invited to take part in our future lawyers programme, a programme of events designed to equip our trainees with the skills needed to become well-rounded and successful lawyers. This includes sessions on topics relevant to ‘modern lawyers’ such as design thinking and innovation.

Trainees also receive first class technical training from our team of professional support lawyers.

Our September 2024 trainee were the first cohort to follow our SQE programme which we have put together in conjunction with BPP University. The full cost of the course will be covered as long as the candidate attends the BPP programme offered. Full details are on our website.

Cripps also runs a successful legal apprenticeship programme which has been offering candidates an alternative route into a legal career since 2018.

Diversity, equality and inclusion are more than simply words. Every person is, by definition, unique; we recognise people’s individual needs and do everything in our power to fulfil their aspirations.

We have active programmes around encouraging and nurturing diversity and inclusion, and have had a longstanding track record on ensuring equality. As of June 2023, we have included our existing wellbeing team in our EDI offering, resulting in having better oversight about all activities across the firm.  We have the following strands and each has a board sponsor and leader: Gender, Disability, LGBTQIA+, Faith, Race and Ethnicity, Social Mobility, Parents/Carers and Wellbeing. 

We treat everyone we work alongside with dignity and respect and our policies on harassment, maternity and paternity leave, help uphold the importance of equality and inclusion in our culture.

The diversity of our team makes us more capable, responsive and, above all, human. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer – our diversity enables us to better serve our clients and to create better solutions for them.

We are fully committed to fostering a truly diverse business that reflects the community and society we inhabit. To underline this commitment, we have signed the Law Society’s Charter on Diversity, which promotes diversity and equality across the entire legal profession.

You can read our equality, diversity and inclusivity policy here and our anti-slavery policy on our website.

Cripps will pay 100% of your course costs if you study BPP’s SQE preparation course. We will also cover the cost of BPP’s Essentials for Practice course which you will complete before joining the firm.

Where needed we will also pay 100% of the course costs of BPP’s Law Foundations Course (PGDL).

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