Solicitor Apprenticeship 2025 (Bristol)

About the solicitor apprenticeship programme

Qualify as a solicitor and earn while you learn through our six year, level 7, solicitor apprenticeship programme.

From day one, you'll be immersed in life at Simmons & Simmons. Four days a week will be spent gaining practical work experience and one day a week studying with BPP University. By combining work and study, you'll be able to put want you learn into practice through a variety of tasks and projects.

Work experience

You'll spend time across multiple practice groups discovering the innovation we're known for. Your journey will start with three months in Business Services, getting to know the firm and our clients. With close support and guidance, you'll go on to spend 15 months each in three different practice groups. Two will be legal practice groups and one will be our Solutions team where you'll look beyond the traditional legal approach and explore new ways of working for our firm and our clients. In year's five and six of the programme, you'll rotate around a further four legal practice groups for six months each, alongside our trainee solicitors, gaining a broad perspective of the firms work and where your career might lead. You'll help answer our clients' biggest and most important questions, because that's exactly what we'll train you to do.

Study

In years one to four, you'll complete your LLB (Hons) Law and Legal Practice. Each term you'll study toward a different module including English Legal System; Contract Law; Tort Law; Land Law; One of Dispute Resolution, Property Practice or Commercial Practice; Public Law, Criminal Law; Company Law; Trusts Law; Wills and Administration of Estate. Alongside this, you'll focus on a new legal skill each term. In years five and six you'll study towards the Solicitors Qualifying Examinations (SQE). On successful completion of the SQE, you will qualify as a solicitor.

Location

We are currently recruiting for apprentices to join our Bristol office for September 2025.

Eligibility

We want to hear from ambitious future lawyers, who are ready to leave their mark on the world.

You must be a school/college leaver with GCSE grades 4 or above, with at least a 6 in Maths and English, plus A-Level grades at ABB (or equivalent).