Weil will shortly begin recruiting for solicitor apprentices to join the firm in September 2024. The apprenticeship pathway is a relatively new route to becoming a qualified lawyer and will involve recruiting apprentices, and developing and training them through a 6 year programme where at the end they will become newly qualified solicitors. During the course, the apprentices will gain a law degree and will also undertake the SQE exams.

During the first four years of the programme, the solicitor apprentices will rotate through different departments and then, during the final two years, they will join Weil’s graduate training programme alongside the trainees. We plan to take on 2 apprentices a year (starting in September 24) with applications for our first intake opening on 9 October 2023 and remaining open until late December. 

Weil will be encouraging everyone who is eligible to apply, as well as targeting applicants who may not have the financial or supportive means to attend university, and the firm will be working closely with the numerous schools that we have existing relationships with through our Widening Entry Into Law programme which supports over 500 state school students and those who are long-term unemployed each year through a range of employability programmes, as well as promoting the programme externally with experienced learning providers.