We're a leading international legal business with over 3,000 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We're market leaders in insurance, health and real estate but with a full-service offering, including growing financial services and tech capabilities. We represent a wide range of clients – from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. We act for nearly all of the top-20 UK and global insurers, we're market leaders in the provision of strategic, commercial and regulatory advice to providers and commissioners in the health sector, and in real estate we advise all of the UK’s top-five housebuilders. 

We are a fast-growing international business with offices around the globe.  In addition to our 11 UK offices, we also have offices in Dublin, Madrid, Paris, Milan, Rome, Singapore, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Miami, and Hong Kong plus a broad network of affiliations across the globe. 

Working with us 

Our vision is to be leading business advisers, recognised for our insight and our outstanding commitment to clients, and for being the place where talented people want to work. Combine this with our supportive culture and hybrid working model, and you have: a life that works. 

Our flexible approach means that we help our colleagues to be their best at work, while recognising that they have all sorts of different interests and commitments outside work. 

We pride ourselves on our supportive, approachable culture. We are trusted, appreciated as individuals and embraced as part of a team. At DACB, we don’t just accept your differences, we celebrate and advocate for them. From bespoke solutions for our clients, to treating you as an individual. Our strength comes from your diverse ideas and bringing the ‘whole you’ to work. So if you’re good at what you do, come as you are! 

Join us as a trainee solicitor and you’ll have the opportunity to experience the business and gain a breadth of knowledge in cross-practice areas through a series of placements. In addition to developing your legal knowledge and practice, our trainee development programme incorporates the skills the lawyer of tomorrow will need. Our SQE graduate trainee solicitor programme provides a tailored learning experience developed in line with the O-Shaped Lawyer principles. 

During the two-year programme, DACB trainees will work in four six-month placements across our practice areas. In these placements you will develop core business skills, learn more about how DACB and our clients operate and make strategic decisions, and have the opportunity to put your academic knowledge into practice. You'll have access to an extensive range of technical, professional and personal development resources, including face-to-face workshops, blended, e-learning and on-the-job training. Many of our trainees also undertake secondments to clients as part of their development.

Our trainees tell us that they enjoy the firm's collaborative working environment which reflects our cultural principles – supportive, creative, determined, and clear. There are also many opportunities to network with other trainees and other colleagues across our network, and to be part of wider firm projects and initiatives. 

We welcome applications from prospective trainees who have already completed the LPC or SQE. 

For those candidates who have not yet completed one of these qualifications you will be required to complete a fully funded SQE preparation course with BPP and pass both SQE1 and SQE2 before commencing the two-year graduate programme. 

DAC Beachcroft currently offer Level 3 paralegal apprenticeships in our England and Wales offices. As part of the legal apprenticeship route, you would start your legal apprenticeship as a paralegal apprentice. This gives you the opportunity to work within one team for two year and gain a foundation in law. Upon successful completion of the paralegal apprenticeship there may be the opportunity to progress onto the solicitor apprenticeship for a further 4 years before passing the SQE and qualifying as a solicitor.  

The legal apprenticeship programme provides a route into the legal profession without the need to attend university. Instead, you spend most of your time gaining real-life, on the job experience whilst undertaking a small proportion of study at the same time. During your apprenticeship you will gain skills that will be relevant to your legal career straightaway. You will be given the opportunity to develop these throughout the course of your apprenticeship, allowing you to progress in the legal profession and meet the expectations of employers. 

Upon completing the two-year paralegal apprenticeship programme, you will receive a paralegal Level 3 apprenticeship certificate of higher education (law and legal practice). This qualification will give you the knowledge and experience to start your career as a paralegal.  

All legal apprenticeship vacancies are advertised via our DACB careers website typically during the spring of each year. Further information on our apprenticeship programmes can be found on our early talent page. 

DAC Beachcroft will fully fund the SQE course and exams including SQE1 (FLK1 AND FLK2) and SQE2. We also provide a maintenance grant of £6500.

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