Spring/Summer Vacation Schemes 2025 (Bristol)

Are you ready to dive into the life of an award-winning law firm voted as RollOnFriday 'Best Law Firm to Work at 2024' for the third year in a row?

You'll experience firsthand the progressive world of law with our spring or summer vacation scheme. Whether you're still studying, fresh out of university or changing careers, our vacation schemes are open to all eligible applicants, regardless of degree discipline or time since graduation.

During the scheme, you'll engage in meaningful work and have the opportunity to attend client and department meetings as well as skills sessions to gain a genuine insight into Burges Salmon and the legal profession. We've also factored in time for you to enjoy social and sports events to get to know your colleagues and immerse yourself in our firm's culture.

If you impress us during your vacation scheme, you could be invited back for a training contract interview – a significant step towards your legal career with us. If we decide we're right for each other, you'll be offered a training contract commencing in September 2027.

Application process

• Spring vacation scheme: 7 - 18 April 2025
• Summer #1 vacation scheme: 2 - 13 June 2025
• Summer #2 vacation scheme: 16 - 27 June 2025

Application details:

• Submit your written application by clicking the 'apply now' button.
• No tests required at the application stage.

Assessment centre dates:

• Successful applicants will be invited to attend an assessment centre on either 3, 5, 7, 10, 12 February 2025 (in-person only, Bristol office).
• We recommend that you keep these dates free in the event that you are invited to attend an assessment centre. If you can't attend on these dates, we won't be able to progress your application.

Disability Confident Leader

As a Disability Confident Leader, we encourage individuals with disabilities, long-term health conditions, or impairments to apply for our roles. We regularly implement adjustments throughout the recruitment process to support all candidates effectively.

We invite you to disclose any disability, long-term health condition, or impairment so that we can provide tailored support during your application. We can make bespoke adjustments to assessments, interviews, and other stages to ensure you have an equal opportunity to excel in our recruitment process.

Applicants with a disability who meet our minimum scoring criteria will be offered a place at one of our assessment centres.

An example of an adjustment we can provide at an assessment centre is additional time to complete the written exercise.

Application eligibility

Please be advised that you are eligible to apply for only one training contract process at a time within a recruitment cycle. For instance, if you apply to our Winter vacation scheme 2024 and your application is unsuccessful, you will not be eligible to apply for our Spring/Summer vacation schemes or the direct training contract 2027.

We recruit two years in advance so you can apply for a training contract from the second (or penultimate if you are studying a four-year course) year of a qualifying law degree or the final year of a non-law degree. We also welcome applicants that have graduated or are changing careers.