Salary & benefits

For both the GDL and the LPC+, we will pay your course fees, together with a maintenance grant towards living expenses. The maintenance grant is currently £6,000 for the GDL and £8,000 for the LPC year. This figure is reviewed annually.

We pay in the upper quartile of City law firms and our current trainee starting salary is £37,500.  In your first salary payment, you will also receive a one-off bonus of £3,000 to help with student debts and the costs associated with settling into a new job in London.

In addition to your salary, we offer a competitive benefits package which includes:
  • Life insurance
  • Permanent health insurance
  • Private medical insurance
  • Group personal pension plan
  • Season ticket loans
  • Employee health care programmes (including health screening, dentist, flu jabs and eye care)
  • Subsidised gym membership
  • Subsidised staff restaurant

 

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