Routes to the training contract

We welcome applications from both law and non-law students.

All future trainees must attend the Legal Practice Course (LPC) at BPP Law School in London. Together with four other major City law firms and BPP, we have designed this course to give our students a thorough training in the law relevant to the commercial transactions on which we advise.

The course is now run as an accelerated programme over 7½ month as opposed to the traditional 10 months. There are two LPC intakes each year in February and August. We will pay your course fees and provide a maintenance grant.

Those who have not studied law will also be required to study the Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) at BPP but you can do so at any of its branches in England. We will pay your course fees and provide a maintenance grant.

If you would like to qualify as a solicitor in England and Wales, but have not completed your undergraduate degree here, you will also need to study the LPC. You are advised to contact the Solicitors Regulation Authority before submitting an application to find out which courses you need to undertake before starting the LPC.