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Leigh Day is a top 100 law firm committed to claimant-only cases, ensuring that individuals have the same access to justice as the UK Government and large corporations. It is not afraid to take on difficult and challenging cases involving medical negligence, serious personal injuries, discrimination in the workplace, defective products and human rights abuses in this country and overseas. Lawyers at Leigh Day offer a market-leading service to their clients who include individuals from around the world, charities and global NGOs. To learn more visit about us.

Our people

We have some of the country's leading legal teams who are driven by our ethos of 'Davids' fighting the 'Goliaths' around the world. We are known to passionately pursue difficult or unpopular cases that push the boundaries of the law and which may be of little interest to other firms and to champion the rights of the injured, marginalised and disenfranchised. Based in our London (Clerkenwell) and Manchester offices we are over 400 strong (including 44 partners). Being a mid-sized firm, we are able to provide key learning opportunities to our people and encourage them to take on responsibilities from an early stage. We genuinely pride ourselves on having a supportive and friendly culture and host regular weekly and annual social activities.

Valuing diversity is essential to Leigh Day’s on-going success. We are committed to creating a working culture where everyone’s contributions are encouraged and valued and the workplace is free from barriers to inclusion, particularly for those from under-represented backgrounds.

Unlike many other firms, we offer two 12-month training seats as we believe this is best way to acquire more responsibilities, get stuck in to cases and develop a true in-depth appreciation of a particular area of law.

Seat availability depends on departmental needs but a London trainee should typically expect to be assigned their first seat in clinical negligence, consumer law or personal injury, before expressing interest for their second seat, which will typically be in, but not limited to our employment, human rights or international departments. Second seat preferences cannot be guaranteed but are usually accommodated.

Manchester trainees should typically expect to undertake one seat with clinical negligence and the other with personal injury or employment.

Trainees work closely with their supervising partners and associates on their client work and have a dedicated learning and development team on hand to support them through their professional training. Our learning and development team also support trainees with a comprehensive development programme, drawing on the experience of internal and external experts, to build their skills as a solicitor for the future.

• Clinical negligence
• Employment
• Human rights
• International
• Personal injury
• Product liability

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• London
• Manchester

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