How does it work?

The programme is made up of five six-month ‘seats’, and each individual participant will complete four of the seats.

Each of these seats has been designed to focus on a complementary set of skills and capabilities, and a number of internal teams are involved in delivering within each area.

Your role in each seat will vary according to your skills and interests, as well as the workload at the time, but the goal of each seat will be to enable you to thoroughly understand each area and whether working within it aligns with your longer-term aspirations.

We will aim to take account of personal preferences and attributes in identifying the seats assigned to each individual, but since the goal is to provide you with a broad understanding of the different areas, we expect all participants to change seat after six months. In other words, you will be expected to complete seats in four of the five areas and you may not have the option to select the seats in which you are placed.

Click through to learn more about each seat.

The seats include
Marketing and Communications
The marketing and communications seat will provide you with experience of content creation and production, as well as the creative process required to share our messages in a way that reflects our reputation for excellence, connects with our audiences effectively and drives tangible outcomes.
Business Development
The Business Development and Pitching seat will enable you to understand how we target and build relationships with clients and potential clients, and how we convert those relationships into fee-earning opportunities.
Research and Analysis
In this seat you will learn about the sources of data available to guide our decisions, how that data is used to drive strategic choices, and how it can be presented in the most effective way. You will also learn about how law firms make money and the different metrics that are used to drive success.
Legal Operations
In this seat, you will be introduced to the fast-moving world of legal innovation and learn about how the delivery of legal advice is changing as a result of the introduction of new techniques and approaches that are driving efficiency and new ways of working.
Knowledge and Learning
In this seat, you will discover how we identify and share best practices and legal knowledge, as well as how we provide the on-going training and support to both our legal teams and our business services colleagues that enable them to deliver world-class solutions to legal challenges.