CILEx Law School to train Irwin Mitchell apprentices, Eversheds launches six-year apprenticeship
updated on 18 March 2016
In more National Apprenticeship Week news, CILEx Law School has been retained to provide training to all of Irwin Mitchell’s new legal apprentices, due to start in September 2016. The apprentices will spend two years training at the firm, in its London, Birmingham, Sheffield and Leeds offices, to become paralegals.
Training will be delivered as part of the Trailblazer Apprenticeship scheme. The two-year programme can be used to lead on to other qualifications, including as a solicitor. CILEx Law School and City Law School have also teamed up to provide training for the new Trailblazer six-year apprenticeship route to qualification as a solicitor, set to begin in September 2016. Nicola Goodman, learning and development manager at CILEx Law School, said: “We are delighted that Irwin Mitchell has chosen CILEx Law School to deliver training for the new Trailblazer Paralegal apprenticeships. This is an expansion of our long supplier relationship with the firm.”
Other providers – including BPP University Law School and The University of Law – are also planning to offer apprenticeship training, including as part of the Trailblazer initiative. One firm that has just announced it will be working with BPP to train its cohort of apprentices, starting this year, is Eversheds. As reported in Legal Futures, Eversheds’ six-year scheme will build on its existing apprenticeship programme, but will incorporate Trailblazer standards and methods, and will see participants qualify as solicitors at the end of the six years.
