Posted by The Law School
28 March 2025This opportunity is from the firm Slateford. You need to apply by 31 May. Full details on their webpage here.
Slateford are looking for talented candidates to join the team in September 2025. If you want to become a reputation management solicitor – candidates can be at any point in their career or studies and they will offer a tailored progression plan to the right candidate and provide support to the right route for qualification for them.
We are a specialist reputation law firm whose focus is on entrepreneurial clients and their business interests, wherever in the world they occur.
The firm’s client list includes some of the most exciting businesses in the world, as well as blue chip companies and sovereign assets; individual clients range from prominent investors and philanthropists to household name athletes. Our lawyers frequently work with clients and issues across continents. We believe in using the skills we hone working for the world’s elite to help those who would not otherwise have access to that advice, and campaign and advise on topics we believe in, particularly around online harms, intimate image abuse and social exclusion.
The role
We are looking for a talented candidate to join our team from Autumn 2025. Candidates can be at any point in their career or studies – we will offer a tailored progression plan to the right candidate and provide support to the right route to qualification for them based on performance.
You will support our fee earners and become involved in developing advice. Routine tasks will include conducting legal and factual research, preparing materials for presentations, drafting correspondence and working on knowledge management.
What we offer
We offer unique training where you are given real responsibility from day one. We are not interested in churning out NQs and associates, we want to work with brilliant people who are capable of having long and successful careers at the top of the profession, and we give the skills and opportunities to do so. Our stated aim is for our trainees to have better careers than our partners.
Our trainees and junior lawyers are a valuable part of our team and given client contact and support from senior team members from the beginning. Our trainees feel comfortable putting forward ideas in a larger forum and are given encouragement to run with them with the support of the larger team. The nature of our work is international and therefore there are also opportunities for international travel at all levels.
Full details on how to apply are on their webpage here.