Graduate Solicitor Apprentice (Dignity Funerals)
DIGNITY FUNERALS LIMITED
Maidenhead (SL6 8QZ)
Closes on Monday 31 August 2026
Posted on 27 April 2026
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Summary
We help families through some of the hardest days of their lives. As part of the UK’s leading end-of-life group, Dignity supports 1 in every 8 families after a death - and increasingly, many of them need expert guidance on probate and estate administration.
- Wage
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£30,000 a year
- Training course
- Solicitor (level 7)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, 8.45am - 5.00pm
38 hours 45 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 14 September 2026
- Duration
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2 years 9 months
- Positions available
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5
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
We’re growing fast, and we’re looking for an ambitious Law Graduate to join us on that journey. You’ll gain hands-on legal experience in a complex, regulated area of law while supporting people with empathy and clarity during a difficult time.
This is a chance to grow your legal career in a purpose-led business - one that values emotional intelligence as much as academic achievement.
Key responsibilities:
You’ll work alongside experienced case handlers and the Head of Legal to help deliver clear, high-quality support to families settling a loved one’s estate.
That includes:
- Supporting probate and estate administration across a wide range of estates - from simple cases to complex, high-value ones
- Drafting and reviewing legal documents, correspondence, and application forms
- Managing information using our case management software and databases
- Helping to meet compliance and regulatory obligations, including fraud and anti-money laundering checks
- Participating in audits and internal training to build your understanding and improve service quality
- You’ll also build your legal capability across areas like tax, trusts, inheritance and client care
Where you'll work
Arena Court
Crown Lane
Maidenhead
SL6 8QZ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
BPP UNIVERSITY 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
More training information
- One day per week will be spent with BPP University, working towards your LLB Hons) Law and Legal Practice degree and the Solicitor Level 7 apprenticeship
- Upon completion of your law degree, you will sit the Solicitors Qualifying Examinations (SQE) 1&2 and qualify as a solicitor
- Your Level 7 apprenticeship shall be delivered by a blend of online and face-to-face from BPP. Coupled with the on-the-job learning, completion of the apprenticeship will lead to obtaining your solicitor qualification
- The apprenticeship standard is based on the SRA's Statement of Solicitor Competence
- Achievement of the standard and the associated apprenticeship assessment plan will satisfy the SRA's regulatory framework for qualification as a solicitor, subject to the SRA's usual tests of character and suitability.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
A Level in:
Degree in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Strong written skills
- Empathetic and articulate
- Reliable and detail-oriented
- Microsoft Office
- Learning new software
About this employer
It's inevitable that all of us are going to deal with death at some time in our lives. It’s a fundamental, tragic part of what it is to be human. But the services that should be supporting us haven’t changed in decades. From writing your will to planning a funeral or organising probate, the way we deal with death can be complicated and expensive. Instead of feeling supported, people feel lost.
But it doesn’t need to be this way. We started Farewill to make the experience warmer, brighter, and friendlier. Now we’re the UK’s top rated probate provider, and help our customers pledge over £300 million a year to charities through gifts left in their wills.
We’ve also joined the Dignity Group - one of the major providers of funeral services in the UK. Together, we’re on a mission to change the way the world deals with death. It’s no small task - and we’re looking for a Probate Solicitor to help us do it.
Company benefits
- 25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays
- X2 Life Assurance
- Pension Scheme
- Genuine career progression and mentorship opportunities
- A chance to make a meaningful contribution to people's lives and deaths
After this apprenticeship
- Genuine career progression and mentorship opportunities
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
BPP UNIVERSITY LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000028237.
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Closes on Monday 31 August 2026