Summer placements

July/August 2024 Get started on your research – follow us on social media
Sept/Oct 2024 Meet us at all the Scottish law fairs
4 November 2024 (at midday) 2025 Summer placement application open
November 2024 Our webinars guide you through our recruitment process
6 January 2025 (at midday) 2025 Summer placement application deadline
Jan/Feb 2025 Interviews held and offers made

Our summer placement programme is the first chapter of your career in law – and a step closer to securing a traineeship with Scotland's leading law firm.

The three-week placement gives you a snapshot of life at Brodies, placing you in one of our expert teams. You'll work alongside some of Scotland's leading lawyers, be involved in interesting and challenging work and expand your knowledge through the completion of a valuable research project.

The summer placement experience is an opportunity for us to get to know you – and for you, in turn, to get to know our people, our business, our culture, and our values.

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Download our interview preparation pack for summer placements and traineeships(194.49 KB)

We'll invite you to breakfast sessions to learn more about other areas of the business, set you up with a mentor and put you in touch with our current trainees so you can pick their brains about life at Brodies. If a traineeship with us is your goal, we'll invite you to participate in an assessment, as part of the recruitment process.

To apply you should be minimum 3rd year of the LLB or 1st year accelerated LLB.

Our values

Our values of courage, character, care, collaborative and collegiate are more than just a strapline. Whether delivering services to our clients, fulfilling our professional duties as solicitors, or contributing to the wider economy and communities in which we work, our values inform everything we do.

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Rare Recruitment

We are proud to be using the Rare Contextual Recruitment System which allows us to understand each applicant’s achievements in the context in which they have been gained. We seek to recruit the best people, from every background, regardless of their personal circumstances, and the CRS help us to do that. The CRS is only ever used to screen people in, not out and under no circumstances are candidates ever marked down for supplying this information.

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Sustainable Recruitment Alliance

We have adapted a greener, more sustainable approach to graduate recruitment. We have reviewed our recruitment practices to help reduce our carbon footprint and minimise environmental and climate impacts. As part of our commitment, we are signatories to the Sustainable Recruitment Alliance. We pledge to review our processes and operations, identifying opportunities to be more sustainable, reduce the amount of materials and/or switch to sustainable alternatives and report on change, so the impact can be calculated.

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Help & advice

What office locations offer summer placements?

Placements are available in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Inverness.
I'm worried I don't have any legal work experience; will this disadvantage me?

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.
I have a part-time job that helps me finance my studies, it will be challenging to ask for three weeks off, can I still apply?

We appreciate your position and would welcome an application from you. For successful candidates we would be happy to build in a degree of flexibility to the working pattern of the placement to help accommodate part-time work.
How important are my academic grades?

We do not ask for school or college grades. We are looking for bright, motivated individuals and are keen to hear about your experiences, hobbies and interests, and your answers to the questions on our application form. Rare’s contextualised recruitment process helps us review your university grades in the context they were achieved.
If I applied last year and was unsuccessful, can I apply this year?

Yes, we would welcome you to reapply, it’s a very competitive process and showing resilience to keep going is a key competency we look for in our candidates.
When can I apply?

To apply you should be minimum 3rd year of the LLB or 1st year accelerated LLB.

Applications for our summer placements 2024 are now closed. News about 2025 our applications will be announced in due course on our website and via our Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or Instagram pages. If you have any questions please get in touch at gradrecruit@brodies.com.
How can I apply?

Applications for our summer placements 2024 are now closed. News about 2025 our applications will be announced in due course on our website and via our Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or Instagram pages. If you have any questions please get in touch at gradrecruit@brodies.com.