Solicitor Apprentice
MOORE BARLOW LLP
Hampshire (SO53 3TG)
Closes on Sunday 15 February 2026
Posted on 5 January 2026
Contents
Summary
Our Solicitor Apprenticeship programme focuses on developing future talent. Over 5 and a half years, you’ll be supported, challenged, and encouraged to grow, with a clear pathway towards becoming one of our future partners and leaders.
- Wage
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Competitive
Competitive wage offered
- Training course
- Solicitor (level 7)
- Hours
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5 days per week from 9am - 5pm to include 1 day per week as dedicated study time
35 hours a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 1 September 2026
- Duration
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5 years 6 months
- Positions available
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2
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
During the first 3.5 years, you’ll rotate across multiple teams in our Southampton office, progressing from administrative work to hands-on paralegal responsibilities.
For the final two years, you’ll join our Trainee Solicitor cohort and have the opportunity to work in our other offices, Guildford, Woking, Richmond, central London, and Lymington. This gives you exposure to different working environments, a wider internal network, and a broad range of practice areas, from Corporate to Family to Medical Negligence. You’ll work closely with expert lawyers and a wide variety of clients, gaining a rich, well-rounded legal training experience.
Your study time matters too. You’ll work four days a week and dedicate one day to study, completing an LLB in Legal Practice and Skills with the University of Law before sitting the Solicitors Qualifying Examinations in your final year.
Throughout the programme, you’ll receive the professional and academic support you need to succeed.
Where you'll work
Gateway House Tollgate
Chandler's Ford
Eastleigh
Hampshire
SO53 3TG
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
THE UNIVERSITY OF LAW LIMITED
Training course
Solicitor (level 7)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Obtain relevant facts by effective questioning and active listening.
- Find, analyse, and assess documents to extract relevant information including recognising when additional information is needed , interpreting and evaluating information obtained, recording and presenting information accurately and clearly.
- Recognise when legal research is needed and use appropriate methods and resources including identifying, finding and assessing the relevance of sources of law, interpreting, evaluating and applying research results, recording and presenting findings of research accurately and clearly.
- Develop strategies and solutions including an understanding of a client’s commercial and personal circumstances, their needs, objectives, priorities and constraints.
- Provide advice which is informed by appropriate and factual legal analysis and identifying the consequences of different options.
- Draft documents from scratch and use precedents which address all legal and factual issues, complying with all formalities and using clear, accurate and succinct language.
- Undertake effective spoken and written advocacy in court and outside of formal court hearings including: effective preparation by identifying and mastering relevant facts and legal principles, organize facts to support an argument or position, present a reasoned argument in a clear, logical, succinct persuasive way, make appropriate references to legal authority, comply with formalities, deal with witnesses appropriately, respond effectively to questions or opposing arguments, identify strengths and weaknesses from different parties’ perspectives.
- Negotiate solutions to clients’ issues including: identify all parties’ interests, objectives and limits, developing and formulating best options for meeting parties’ objectives, presenting options for compromises persuasively, responding to options presented by the other side, developing compromises between options or parties.
- Plan and manage legal cases and transactions including applying relevant processes and procedures to progress matters effectively, assessing, communicating and managing risk, bringing a transaction or case to a conclusion.
- Obtain relevant facts by effective questioning and active listening.
- Find, analyse, and assess documents to extract relevant information including recognising when additional information is needed , interpreting and evaluating information obtained, recording and presenting information accurately and clearly.
- Recognise when legal research is needed and use appropriate methods and resources including identifying, finding and assessing the relevance of sources of law, interpreting, evaluating and applying research results, recording and presenting findings of research accurately and clearly.
- Develop strategies and solutions including an understanding of a client’s commercial and personal circumstances, their needs, objectives, priorities and constraints.
- Provide advice which is informed by appropriate and factual legal analysis and identifying the consequences of different options.
- Draft documents from scratch and use precedents which address all legal and factual issues, complying with all formalities and using clear, accurate and succinct language.
- Undertake effective spoken and written advocacy in court and outside of formal court hearings including: effective preparation by identifying and mastering relevant facts and legal principles, organize facts to support an argument or position, present a reasoned argument in a clear, logical, succinct persuasive way, make appropriate references to legal authority, comply with formalities, deal with witnesses appropriately, respond effectively to questions or opposing arguments, identify strengths and weaknesses from different parties’ perspectives.
- Negotiate solutions to clients’ issues including: identify all parties’ interests, objectives and limits, developing and formulating best options for meeting parties’ objectives, presenting options for compromises persuasively, responding to options presented by the other side, developing compromises between options or parties.
- Plan and manage legal cases and transactions including applying relevant processes and procedures to progress matters effectively, assessing, communicating and managing risk, bringing a transaction or case to a conclusion.
Training schedule
- Solicitor Level 7 Apprenticeship Standard
- Apprentices will work for 4 days a week at the firm and will complete their apprenticeship qualification 1 day a week, with the support of the training provider
- The majority of learning with the training provider will be virtual. Any in-person study will be in London, and travel will be arranged and paid for by the firm.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- Maths (grade 4)
- No specific subject (grade 4)
- No specific subject (grade 4)
- No specific subject (grade 4)
A Level in:
- No specific subject (grade B)
- No specific subject (grade B)
- No specific subject (grade B)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Resilience
- Adaptable
- Responsible
Other requirements
- Candidates must pass a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check upon offer.
- Candidates must have a permanent right to work in the UK without the need for VISA sponsorship.
About this employer
We are Moore Barlow, a top regional career law firm with a simple mission – to make a difference.
We support our clients and the communities we help through providing outstanding legal services with empathy and expertise. A full service law firm, we support these core client groups: Individuals & Families, Entrepreneurial Businesses & Organisations and Personal/Catastrophic Injury & Medical Negligence.
We are passionate about making a difference to our people, their careers and care deeply about their experience at work. Moore Barlow aims to be recognised as the best career law firm to work for. This means that we care as much about your career as you do. So whether you join us early in your career, in one of our outstanding business support functions or are continuing an already rich career in law, you’ll find Moore Barlow a great place to further build your experience.
With numerous top-tier rankings in law, exceptional quality of work and named a Times Top 100 best law firm to work for, we have big plans. We are seeking passionate, human-focused individuals like you as we continue to grow. With over 450 dedicated professionals, Moore Barlow offers substantial opportunity for further advancement and personal development.
Our culture is open, diverse and inclusive and we look for likeminded individuals who recognise that it’s this individuality that allows us to be truly different to other firms. Everything we do is underpinned by the Moore Barlow Way, which is a set of values and principles to ensure consistency of experience no matter which team you work within.
As a true career firm, we seek to reward the great work our people undertake with continued personal development opportunities. We have big plans for growth, and we see that this creates extensive opportunity for our people as we move towards our long-term ambitions.
We also offer great benefits including 28 days’ annual leave, private medical insurance, income protection, life assurance, firmwide bonus scheme and a generous pension scheme.
If you’re seeking to join a firm that seeks to provide a personal and highly engaging place to work – we are confident that you’ll find this at Moore Barlow.
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Company benefits
- Pension
- Private health care
- Gym membership
- Cycle to work
- EV scheme
- Discretionary bonuses
- And lots more!
After this apprenticeship
After successfully completing the apprenticeship, we hope to retain the apprentices as newly qualified solicitors. At Moore Barlow, we have a clear career framework which can see individuals progressing from newly qualified solicitors to partners at the firm.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
THE UNIVERSITY OF LAW LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000006845.
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Closes on Sunday 15 February 2026
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