Legal assistant

Interested in starting a career in law and becoming a Freethinking individual?

Freeths is here to help you start your career in law. Our Legal Assistant Foundation Programme offers individuals the chance to gain real life work experience within a legal environment, working for some of our top lawyers, providing the opportunity to build your professional network whilst striving to secure a training contract offer.

If this is a role that excites you please read below to find out more details about the firm and the role.

About Freeths

The Freeths Group is one of the UK’s leading regional law practices. We offer services to both the commercial and private client across the entire legal spectrum.

We operate from offices in Birmingham, Derby, Leicester, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Nottingham, Oxford, Sheffield and Stoke. The firm has a wide range of clients throughout the UK with many clients having strong international connections.

Our client base reflects our nationwide strength and our nationwide service delivery. We are committed to continuous improvement and our increasing success as a business is built on achieving success for our clients. We work in close partnership with clients, providing positive, practical solutions and clear, comprehensive advice.

Our aim is to attract and retain the most talented people, and part of this is providing a great place to work. So, to support fairness and equality and to encourage a healthy work-life balance, we continually monitor and improve our benefits.

We are proud that what we have achieved has been recognised over the past few years, being awarded Best Companies star status on a number of occasions and featuring three times in the Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For. We are also a silver standard accredited Investor in People Company, which means we are recognised for our efforts to improve work place engagement, leadership, personal growth, wellbeing, team working and our impact on society.

We are also a silver standard accredited Investor in People Company, which means we are recognised for our efforts to improve work place engagement, leadership, personal growth, wellbeing, team working, and our impact on society and employee engagement.

The role

• Are you enthusiastic and energised about working for Freeths?
• Do you have a passion for law?
• Do you have the drive to deliver first class service?
• Can you hit the ground running?

If you answer yes to all of these then click here to apply for our Legal Assistant Foundation Programme.

Our Legal Assistant programme allows you to gain grass roots experience of working in a legal environment alongside our talented lawyers. You will be in a legal department and will provide a combination of administrative and legal support to trainees, lawyers and partners, which means that you get a true picture of what a career in law could offer you in the long term. We are looking for outstanding Legal Assistants with excellent academics, first class organisation, with the ability to build lasting relationships and have a flexible and do attitude to contribute and succeed.

Legal Assistant positions are initially for six months. We review performance at three monthly intervals; at the six month mark we are assessing performance and attitude with a view to offering a second 6 month contract. At the 9 month stage we make a decision on whether to offer a training contract.  If we offer a training contract this includes sponsorship for the LPC/GDL.

If you would like further information about role please email [email protected].