Legal Support Apprentice

Be yourself and start your journey with us as a Legal Support Apprentice. Working towards a Business Administration qualification, you'll become an integral part of our team, playing a key role in supporting colleagues across the business with essential tasks, such as printing, photocopying, scanning, and booking travel and processing expenses.

About Addleshaw Goddard

As a leading law firm, we work with thousands of organisations across more than 100 countries. We tackle complex challenges with innovative solutions, creating opportunities for our clients, colleagues, and communities.

We're proud to have received numerous awards for training, innovation, diversity, and culture, reflecting our commitment to excellence and inclusion.  Our inclusive and supportive environment is built for everyone to succeed.

About the Role

Our centralised support team, The Cube, plays a key role in delivering high-quality administrative assistance across the firm.

This is a fully office-based role, working a shift pattern between 8:30am and 5:30pm. Under the guidance of an experienced Team Leader, you'll complete a variety of tasks assigned via a workflow management tool, ensuring deadlines are met to support the business. Typical tasks include printing, scanning, and copying documents, filing electronic mail, booking travel, and processing expenses. You'll work in small teams based on the working floors of our offices, delivering excellent customer service.

As a Legal Support Apprentice on our two-year programme, you'll gain hands-on experience in administrative support within a legal firm, while working towards a Level 3 Business Administration qualification with BPP.

Upon successful completion of the apprenticeship, you'll have the opportunity to progress within The Cube through our promotions process, advancing into Level 1, 2, or 3 roles. Many of our Legal Support team members also move into other areas of the business, such as Finance, HR, Paralegal, or PA roles.

What we are looking for

There is no such thing as a ‘typical' Addleshaw Goddard candidate. As a firm, we have always been shaped by different ways of looking at the world. We know our success depends on giving opportunities to people from the widest range of backgrounds, locations and perspectives.

Of course, there are some attributes we would like you to bring to this role (listed below). However, your personality and individuality matter just as much – we want you to be yourself and we will do our best to build your skillset.

• A desire to develop and progress within an administrative role.
• Ability to get on well with a broad range of people and stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to use different approaches depending on the audience and the context.
• High level of attention to detail with significant emphasis on quality of work.
• Ability to be resilient and successfully manage multiple competing workstreams.
• Strong organisational and communication skills.
• Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office.

• Minimum 5 GCSEs, including English and Maths at Grade C or above.
• 3 A-levels or equivalent at grades C or above.

What you can expect

With Addleshaw Goddard, you can expect a supportive team culture, a flexible, friendly and state-of-the-art working environment, and an attractive salary and benefits package.

For the role of Legal Support Apprentice, we will reward you with a starting salary of £22,000 a year, with the potential for salary increments in your second year.

Core benefits include Life Assurance, Income Protection, Pension and Bonus schemes, with additional Health & Wellbeing benefits and services, plus many voluntary Lifestyle benefits, ranging from a cycle to work scheme, gym allowance and Give As You Earn scheme to season ticket travel loans and railcards.

Our early careers pathways are based on delivering the right training and development opportunities for you as an individual. Our dedicated early careers team is on hand with advice and assistance.

We are an equal opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of a person's sex, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, background or any other protected characteristic. We are committed to having a diverse team and actively encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds and communities.

To do this effectively, we'd like to hear from you as soon as possible if there are things we can do to support you through the application or interview process – for example, providing you with additional time, organising appointments on particular days, or providing any accessibility support you may require accessing our resources or buildings. 

Recruitment Process

The recruitment process is as follows:

• Eligibility & Application Form
• Audio Interview
• In-person Assessment Centre – 22nd or 29th July 2025 (subject to change)

Closing date: 30th June 2025

Start date: 29th Sept or 6th Oct 2025 - TBC

To apply…

Submit your application online by clicking on the apply now button. We look forward to hearing from you!