Links with the profession

We work very closely with law firms, chambers, government bodies and alternative legal employers to ensure you have access to employers throughout your programme. We offer the following initiatives to give you access to the legal profession and help you get a training contract or pupillage:

Job vacancies database

Our careers service maintains a vacancy database with a large range of legal vacancies including posts advertised exclusively to BPP students.

We also have a recruitment service used by many local and national firms to recruit trainees directly into training contract vacancies.

Speaker series

Throughout the academic year, a series of presentations are made by law firms, chambers and alternative legal employers. Talks are run at all four of our locations at dates and times that fit in with your studies and work commitments. Employers who have recently presented and given careers advice are:

  • 1 Essex Court
  • 2-3 Grays Inn
  • 37 Park Square
  • 4 New Square Chambers
  • 4 Pump Court
  • Addleshaw Goddard
  • Allen & Overy
  • Barclays Capital
  • Beachcroft LLP
  • Berwin Leighton Paisner
  • Blacks
  • BP Collins
  • Bradford University - In house
  • Broadway House Chambers
  • Browne Jacobson
  • Chamber of Rock Tansey
  • Charles Russell
  • Clarion
  • Clough & Willis Solciitors
  • CMS Cameron McKenna
  • Crown Prosecution Service
  • Dechert
  • Dundas & Wilson
  • DWF
  • EDF Energy
  • Eversheds
  • Faegre Benson
  • Finers Stephens Innocent
  • Fisher Meredith
  • Fox Hayes
  • Fox Williams
  • Gordons
  • Government Legal Service
  • Grata Law firm
  • Hackney Law Centre
  • Henry Hyams
  • Hogarth
  • Ibbotson Brady
  • Irwin Mitchell
  • KBW Chambers
  • Keating Chambers
  • Kennedys
  • Kings Chambers
  • Lambeth Law Centre
  • Legal Aid Practitoners Group
  • Legal Practice Clerks
  • Lupton Fawcett
  • Mace & Jones
  • Maitland Chambers
  • Margaret Glentworth, District Judge
  • Mayer Brown
  • Nabarro
  • No.6 Chambers
  • Ole Hanson & Partners
  • Olswang
  • Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
  • Paradise Chambers
  • Park Court Chambers
  • Park Lane Chambers
  • Peters and Peters
  • Pinsent Masons
  • Platt Halpern
  • Praxis Partners
  • Pritchard Englefield
  • Raworths Solicitors
  • Rolitts
  • SJ Berwin
  • Sacco Mann Recruitment
  • Smith Nephew - In House
  • Sovereign Chambers
  • Stephenson Harwood
  • Stephensons
  • Switalskis Solicitors
  • Tates
  • Taylor Root Recruitment
  • Tooks Chambers
  • Ventura - In House
  • Walker Morris
  • Ward Hadaway
  • Watson Burton
  • Wilson's Solicitors
  • Winward Fearon
  • XXIV Old Buildings
  • Young Street Chambers
  • Zenith Chambers

Access to Practice scheme

BPP Careers Service runs a very successful 'Access to Practice' scheme aimed at students with limited access to the legal profession. If you are accepted on the scheme you will be matched with a practitioner from one of the volunteer organisations below. The lawyer, known as a 'Practice Advisor', assists the student from January to July (for a minimum of five hours during this time) with any careers related queries they may have such as CV, application form and interview advice. Practice advisors provide:

  • a point of contact with the legal profession
  • insight into life as a solicitor in practice
  • increased confidence in making applications and attending interviews
  • excellent networking opportunities

Current firms involved in the scheme include:

  • Addleshaw Goddard
  • Andrew M Jackson
  • Beachcroft LLP
  • Berrymans Lace Mawer
  • Berwin Leighton Paisner
  • Bird and Bird
  • Blacks
  • Brooke North
  • Browne Jacobson
  • Burges Salmon
  • Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP
  • Chambers Solicitors
  • Charles Russell LLP
  • Citigroup
  • Clarion
  • CMS Cameron McKenna
  • Cobbetts
  • Court Service
  • Cousins Tyrer
  • CPS
  • Crockett & Co
  • Croydon & Sutton Law Centre
  • Davies Arnold Cooper
  • Dechert LLP
  • Denton Wilde Sapte
  • DLA Piper UK
  • Dundas & Wilson
  • DWF
  • Emsleys
  • Eversheds
  • Finers Stephens Innocent LLP
  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
  • George Davies Solicitors
  • Glaisyers
  • Gordons
  • Halliwells
  • Hammonds
  • Henry Hyams
  • Hill Dickinson
  • Irwin Mitchell Solicitors
  • Ison Harrison
  • Jones Day
  • KBW
  • Keeble Hawson
  • Kuit Steinart Levy
  • Lambeth Law Centre
  • Leeds City Council
  • Lester Morrill
  • Lionel Blackman Solicitors
  • Macfarlanes
  • Mishcon de Reya
  • Morrish & Co
  • Nabarro
  • Nexus Solicitors
  • Ogden Waller Property Group
  • Olswang
  • Pannone
  • Pinsent Masons
  • Praxis Partners
  • Rollits
  • Scholfield Sweeney
  • Shearman & Sterling
  • Shoosmiths
  • Sparrowhawk Media Group
  • Stamp Jackdon and Procter
  • Switalskis
  • Tates
  • Tesco
  • The Licensing Company
  • Universal Pictures UK
  • Walker Morris
  • Wandsworth & Merton Law Centre
  • Ward Hadaway
  • Watson Burton
  • Wilsons Solicitors
  • Zermanskys

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Annual Law Fair

Each year, the careers services in Leeds, London (Holborn & Waterloo) and Manchester hold an annual law fair. The law fair is an excellent opportunity for employers to represent themselves and for you to network with training contract providers. All students who join BPP without a training contract are encouraged to attend the fairs. The names of the employers who have attended our fairs include:

  • Addleshaw Goddard
  • Allen and Overy LLP
  • Ashton Morton Slack
  • Barclays Capital
  • Beachcroft LLP
  • Berwin Leighton Paisner
  • Blacks
  • Blake Lapthorn Tarlo Lyons
  • Brooke North
  • Burges Salmon
  • Charles Russell
  • Clough & Willis Solicitors
  • Clyde & Co
  • Crown Prosecution Service
  • DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary
  • Emsleys
  • Eversheds
  • Field Fisher Waterhouse
  • Ford & Warren
  • Forsters LLP
  • Fox Williams LLP
  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
  • George Davies Solicitors
  • Glaisyers
  • Gordons
  • Government Legal Service
  • Halliwells
  • Hammonds
  • Herbert Smith LLP
  • Hill Dickinson
  • Howard Kennedy
  • Irwin Mitchell
  • K&L Gates
  • Kennedys
  • Legal Practice Clerks
  • Lovells
  • Lupton Fawcett
  • Macfarlanes
  • Mayer Brown
  • McCormicks
  • Michael Page Legal Recruitment
  • Mills & Reeve
  • Mishcon de Reya
  • Morgan Cole
  • Morrish & Co
  • Nabarro
  • Norton Rose LLP
  • Olswang
  • Orrick Herrington and Sutcliffe
  • Pannone
  • Pinsent Masons
  • Praxis Partners
  • Reynolds Porter Chamberlain
  • Robert Walters
  • Sacco Mann
  • Schofield Sweeney
  • Shulmans
  • Simmons & Simmons
  • SJ Berwin LLP
  • Stephenson Harwood
  • Stephensons
  • Taylor Root Legal Recruitment
  • Walker Morris
  • Watson Burton
  • Watson Farley & Williams LLP
  • Wedlake Bell
  • Wilsons Solicitors
  • Winckworth Sherwood

Alternative Fair

Whilst the majority of students studying the GDL, LPC or BVC are looking to secure a training contract or pupillage, we know that some may be interested in alternatives to this traditional route. Each year we run an 'Alternatives & Paralegal' fair. Below are a list of some of the organisations that we currently work with:

  • Accenture
  • Appleyard Lees
  • Badenoch and Clark
  • Barclays Capital
  • Beachcroft LLP
  • BPP Accountancy and Taxation
  • Burges Salmon
  • Clarion
  • Commerce & Industry Group
  • Council for Licensed Conveyancers
  • CPS
  • Crown Prosecution Service
  • DA Solutions
  • Deloitte
  • Harrison Goddard Foote/HGF Law
  • Institute of Chartered Secretaries & Administrators
  • KPMG
  • Legal Practice Clerks
  • Mace & Jones
  • Manchester Law Society Recruitment Consultancy
  • Oostvogels Pfister Roemers
  • Praxis Partners
  • PricewaterhouseCoopers
  • Quigg Golden
  • Robert Walters
  • Royal Bank of Scotland
  • Rullion
  • Select Recruitment
  • Taylor Root
  • The Lawyer Magazine
  • Ward Hadaway
  • Watson Burton

Diversity Access Scheme in partnership with Addleshaw Goddard

Addleshaw Goddard in partnership with BPP Law School launched a Diversity Access Scheme in 2007 offering six places per year on its summer placement scheme to students from BPP Law School without training contracts who come from unconventional educational backgrounds. It aims to fast track students onto the Addleshaw Goddard vacation scheme who might otherwise be excluded because of the non-traditional nature of their education.

The scheme is targeted at students who, for example, do not have A-levels or have lower A-level grades than would normally be required but nonetheless have demonstrated their academic ability at university.

The six successful applicants will receive support and training from Addleshaw Goddard and BPP Law School to help them to prepare for their placement and to assist them to perform to the best of their ability whilst on the placement scheme.

If your organisation is interested in becoming a careers service partner for any of our programmes that we run, please contact the National Head of the Careers Service, Michelle Daly, by emailing lawcareers@bpp.com

Diversity Access Scheme in partnership with Reynolds Porter Chamberlain

This scheme ran for the first time in 2009 and offers our successful GDL students places at one of Reynold Porter Chamberlain's summer open days, a fantastic opportunity to get access to this leading law firm. It is aimed at those who do not meet the normal minimum entry requirements at either A' level or university degree stage. Given the nature of the diversity scheme, applicants need to demonstrate and evidence any obstacles they overcame which might have affected their academic results, as well as commitment to a career in a commercial legal practice and a genuine interest in the firm.

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