Job Description

As part of their mission to promote increased access and social mobility within the legal profession, Addleshaw Goddard is again offering several placements on its placement scheme to students from BPP Law School. The Legal Access Scheme has been successfully running for over 15 years. In that time Addleshaw Goddard has offered many placements to BPP candidates who meet the scheme criteria.

The main aims of the Addleshaw Goddard and BPP Law School Legal Access Scheme are:

• To encourage and promote social mobility within the legal profession particularly in the practice area of commercial and corporate law.
• To aid access to the legal profession for students from a less privileged or conventional background.
• To assist students with no or limited contacts in the legal profession, to gain an understanding of careers within leading commercial law firms.
• To provide students with a true insight into life in practice in a commercial law firm.

Selection criteria

The scheme is open to current students at BPP Law School on the LLB (second and final year of standard programme or all years on accelerated programme), GDL or LPC programme.

Candidates must confirm that they:

Core Criteria

For a candidate to be eligible for the scheme they must meet ALL of the following core criteria:

• Have achieved a 2:2 in their undergraduate degree and therefore do not meet the academic requirements for AG\'s standard Training Contract or Placement Schemes; and
• Be a current student/have been a student of BPP Law School within the last 12 months (on one of the programmes outlined above)

Secondary Criteria

In addition to the above core criteria candidates must also meet at least TWO of the following:

• Attended a state school for the majority of their secondary schooling
• Were part of the first generation of their immediate family to attend university
• During their time at university were in receipt of a private or governmentally funded scholarship, grant, award or bursary designed to help students who come from low-income families.

International Applicants and Sponsorship

We welcome applications from candidates from all locations and do not make recruitment decisions based on an applicant\'s current location. However, please note that the terms of this Placement Scheme/Training contract role do not meet the Home Office requirements for a Skilled Worker visa. Therefore, we are unfortunately unable to sponsor visas for these roles at the point of hire. Please do look into other right to work options such as the Graduate visa. More information can be found on gov.uk regarding this. If you have any specific queries regarding your current circumstances please get in touch by emailing earlycareers@addleshawgoddard.com.

Additional Information

We provide a weekly salary of \xc2\xa3450 in London and \xc2\xa3400 in Leeds, Manchester and Scotland for those completing the Easter and Summer Placement schemes. If there are additional considerations that may impact your ability to attend a Placement scheme, please contact earlycareers@addleshawgoddard.com to discuss further. We are accepting applications from students who are looking to secure work experience in 2024.

Please note that we accept one application per intake year. You can also only apply for one location so please ensure you have decided where you would like to be based before applying.

Application deadline: 4th January 2024

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