At Walker Morris we believe everyone is unique. We all have our own goals and visions for what we want our professional lives to look like.

Our firm encourages you to pursue those goals and fights alongside you to help you achieve them.

Forge your own path.

We works as a true partnership, both internally and with its clients. We can do this as a result of the independent and non-conformist culture of the firm and our single location strategy. Even though we have approximately 480 employees and 54 partners, our strategy ensures that our lawyers, whatever their respective legal disciplines, are used to working closely with each other all of the time. It enables us to deliver a quality service to clients and allows our solicitors an ideal environment in which to grow. This is true partnership.

To find out what it is like to work at Walker Morris LLP read the firm's Meet the Lawyer profile.

Training is aimed at giving you a wide variety of exposure to different areas of law, departments, people and clients. For this reason, unlike many other firms, you will move seats every four months. This allows you to choose which seats you would like in your second year and allow your final seat to be the one into which you will qualify (should you so wish).

As well as your daily work and supervision, your training will include lecture sessions, seminars, role plays and workshops and the professional skills course.

We encourage our trainees to take responsibility and use their initiative. We believe in giving autonomy and client contact from day one; the more aptitude you show, the more responsibility you will be given. However, we don't believe that dropping you in at the deep end is the best way forward either. You will, therefore, receive all the support and guidance you need in order to develop into a well-rounded commercial lawyer.

Training is aimed at giving you a wide variety of exposure to different areas of law, departments, people and clients. For this reason, unlike many other firms, you will move seats every four months. This allows you to choose which seats you would like in your second year and allow your final seat to be the one into which you will qualify (should you so wish). As well as your daily work and supervision, your training will include lecture sessions, seminars, role plays and workshops and the professional skills course.

We encourage our trainees to take responsibility and use their initiative. We believe in giving autonomy and client contact from day one; the more aptitude you show, the more responsibility you will be given. However, we don't believe that dropping you in at the deep end is the best way forward either. You will, therefore, receive all the support and guidance you need in order to develop into a well rounded commercial lawyer.

The future

As it says in our literature, we do not recruit trainee solicitors for a two-year training contract. We recruit our commercial lawyers and partners of the future. The majority of our trainees have been offered a permanent role on qualification this year. We think that reflects our commitment to finding and developing high calibre people. To prove it, the majority of our partners and associates trained with the firm.

We offer our future trainees full sponsorship for the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE), covering all fees, exam costs, and providing a maintenance grant.

We offer the Level 7 solicitor apprenticeship and typically recruit around two apprentices every two years. Please keep an eye on our website for more information.

Our overall law firm goal is to have balanced representation across the firm. The individuality that people bring is the lifeblood of our business, and to not grow with a rich and diverse talent base would only harm us as an organisation and limit us as people. Here are a few things we’re proud to talk about:

Guiding local schools, communities, and universities to support people entering the progression

Reverse mentoring and graduate mentoring schemes

Having a good proportion of our lawyers / partners come from a non-private school education

Being active members of NOTICED & “Stronger Together” in Leeds

Signatory to The Law Society’s Diversity and Inclusion Charter

Horizon, our LGBTQ+ community

Culture Club, our culture community

Rare Contextual Recruitment System (CMS)

Have you heard “Rare” but are not quite sure what it is? Well, Rare is an organisation focused on improving diversity in the legal sector. And that’s why here at Walker Morris, we use it.

Implemented in 2022, Rare allows our trained assessors to review contextual data from Rare that measures relative disadvantage and academic outperformance. Using contextual data as part of our recruitment process, we ensure we can identify exceptional talent right from the start!

We cover the SQE and GDL fees for future trainees who have been offered a training contract, along with providing a £7,000 maintenance grant.

• Commercial disputes
• IP
• Construction
• Real estate litigation
• Infrastructure & energy
• Finance insolvency
• Finance banking
• Planning
• Corporate
• Real estate
• Employment
• Regulatory
• Commercial contracts
• Competition
• Tax
• Pensions

• Corporate & Commercial
• General Commercial

• Leeds

• ProHelp

• Ahead Partnership
• Disability Confident Leader
• IntoUniversity
• Law Society Diversity and Inclusion Charter
• Legal Apprenticeships
• Mindful Business Charter
• NOTICED
• Rare Recruitment
• Stronger Together Leeds City Region