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As well as the Brodies work experience programme, PRIME also offer something similar - click here to find out more.

You can work through each of the four tasks at your own pace, fit them around your studies. You'll receive feedback on competing each task and a completion certificate at the end.

Career insight days are held twice a year in each of the following office locations – Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow.

Please contact us at workexperience@brodies.com and we'll work with you to find a solution.

Our modern apprentices usually join on 1-year fixed term contracts. You will have the full year to complete the apprenticeship coursework but will be given deadlines by your assessor to complete each assignment.

To qualify for our modern apprenticeships, you should be aged between 16 and 24.

Understanding and living our values is important as they underline the behaviours we expect from all our colleagues.

Take time to reflect on your traineeship. Think about what you enjoyed. Don't be afraid to get in touch with lawyers already working in the area you are interested in to find out more about the team and the work you'd be involved in. Click here for our top five tips for making your application stand out.

No, just let us know in your application why you are drawn to this specialism and think about the transferrable skills you have that make you the right person for the role.

Our main NQ recruitment drive usually launches in the spring, however we regularly have opportunities for junior lawyers. Click here to view our current vacancies.

Recruitment for newly qualified lawyers usually involves a short written assessment and up to two interviews with the recruiting partner and another senior member of the team. Our interviews aim to give you the opportunity to find out more about the role you are applying for, the team and the wider firm, as well as an opportunity for us to find out about you. Our interviews are relaxed in style and conversational as we believe this will allow you to perform to the best of your ability.

All our NQs are allocated a dedicated mentor who provides invaluable support as you transition into your NQ role. You'll have regular meaningful conversations with your line manager to discuss objectives, support and training and to identify any opportunities to help you progress. Our firm-wide training programme is designed to help our lawyers develop key business skills and enhance their legal knowledge. This comprehensive training programme is tailored to colleagues at the different stages of their career. Bespoke team training is also provided.

We have a variety of networks, committees and clubs to enable colleagues to come together as a community and to make it easy to get to know people across the firm. Our Colleague Networks – carers', multicultural, parents', Pride, women's and younger colleagues' - give colleagues a collective voice to enable positive change. Our climate, environment, and sustainability group also champions change, helping colleagues and the firm to take real positive actions towards improving the sustainability of our working practices, work environment and individual lives. Care is our charitable initiative, for which colleagues can join the committee. Socially, our colleagues enjoy our golf society, running and rounders clubs, and Yoga and Pilates classes.

Yes, you can send your CV to legalrecruitment@brodies.com and we'll consider you for any vacant roles. If there aren't any, your details will be kept on file for six months and we'll contact you should a suitable role arise.

We don’t expect you to have lots of legal experience – but that doesn’t mean you don’t have the qualities we’re looking for. Remember to include part-time work, sports activities, or hobbies and interests, particularly ones where you learned or applied skills that would be useful for a lawyer to have, strong communications skills, being prepared and organised, being self-motivated and resilient.

Wendy Murphy our Graduate Engagement manager shares her top tips in this blog

Learning from the expertise of colleagues is such an important part of your development as a trainee and there is no better place to do that than within the office environment, surrounded by opportunities to hear your colleagues speaking to clients or taking 10 mins to grab a coffee while they explain a complicated technical matter to you is so important. So, most of your time will be spent in the office, we all recognise the benefits of a home working day when we can get our heads into larges pieces of work with less distractions. The norm for our trainees is 3-4 days office based 1-2 days home working per week.

Within graduate recruitment we have many successful initiatives in place to encourage diversity across the trainee group. Our early careers PRIME programme supports students from lower socio-economic backgrounds and provides work experience during school years and mentoring during university years. PRIME alumni have successfully returned to us as interns and trainees following their studies. We also partner with Scottish Ethnic Minority Lawyers Association (SEMLA) and Black Professionals Scotland to offer internships to their student members; we have future trainees joining the firm over the next few years that completed the SEMLA programme.