Graduate Solicitor Apprentice

Overview

Job Title: Graduate Solicitor Apprentice
Job Reference: REQ250674
Date Posted: Wed, 6 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT
Application Closing Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT
Location: Loughborough
Package: Management and Specialist grade 5 from £29179 to £34132 per annum. Subject to annual pay award.

Career Grade Role. Starting salary offered will depend on
experience. 

Full time, fixed term 3 years initially with view to
permanent opportunity 

  

Join Loughborough University – A Great Place to
Build Your Legal Career 

 

This is an exciting
time to join Loughborough University. We are proud to be
recognised as one of the UK’s leading institutions, ranked 7th in
the Complete University Guide 2026, and named University of the
Year in the Whatuni Student Choice Awards 2020. We’ve also been
ranked top in the Midlands and consistently feature in the UK’s
top ten for student satisfaction.

 

Loughborough is
world-renowned for sport too in fact, we’ve been named the best
university in the world for sports-related subjects for five
years running (QS World Rankings by Subject 2025).

 

From our beautiful
440acre campus in the heart of Leicestershire to our postgraduate
campus on London’s Queen Elizabeth Park, we’re enjoying a period
of exceptional success and growth. And to keep moving forward, we
need talented, motivated people to join us on this
journey.

 

About the Role

 

We’re looking for an
individual eager to learn and grow, to join our Legal Services
team, part of the Vice-Chancellor’s Office.

We are offering a
career-graded role designed to take you from trainee to qualified
Solicitor.

 

What we are
offering: 

 

A 3-year fixed-term contract, during which
you’ll complete a Graduate Solicitor
Degree Level Apprenticeship and work towards the
Solicitors Qualifying Exams (SQE1 and
SQE2).  

 

The apprenticeship
is a 35-month programme starting in
December 2025 and includes:

 

• One day per week
  dedicated to study, supported by Damar Training and
  Barbri.
• Four days per week
  gaining practical, hands-on experience as part of our Legal
  Services team.
• On successful
  completion, and subject to business need, you’ll move onto a
  permanent contract as a qualified Solicitor within the
  University.

 

The Legal Services
team provides high-quality, practical and focused legal advice to
help the University achieve its goals. We work closely with
academics, professional services and external partners, and our
work covers everything from major commercial projects and
property developments to supporting the University’s world-class
sporting activities.

 

You’ll be joining a
friendly and highly regarded team with a strong reputation across
the sector. We’re proud to have received national recognition,
including: 

 

• Association of
  University Legal Practitioners Awards (2024 and
  2025)
• LexisNexis Legal
  Awards (2022)
• Law Society
  Excellence in Law Awards (2021)

 

For more
information, please refer to the Job
Description and Person specification. 

 

Candidates must be
available to commence work by no later than 12 December
2025.  

 

For an informal
discussion please contact Emily Kirk on  e.kirk@lboro.ac.uk or Reef
Mitra – r.mitra@lboro.ac.uk

 

Closing date for applications: Monday 8
September 2025

Assessment day: Thursday 25 September
2025 

Final Interviews: Tuesday 30 September
2025