As the UK's leading full-service law firm, we believe we have something genuinely different to offer our trainee solicitors due to our wide range of legal teams. You'll have the opportunity to specialise in legal services tailored for individuals or businesses, while simultaneously gaining exposure to our comprehensive suite of teams. This integrated approach ensures clients can fulfil all their legal requirements with us, while allowing you to broaden your legal expertise across a spectrum of interrelated service areas throughout a client's journey.
Our corporate/commercial legal teams form a £60 million business with a national presence, global reach, and a local feel, with 350+ colleagues across six locations. We have established experts covering financial services, living, renewable energy, manufacturing, consumer, sport, education and technology, offering a range of legal services and an exciting opportunity to work across multiple sectors with national and regional clients.
The Legal Services for Businesses stream covers our Business Services Group (BSG), which typically offers 10 to 15 national trainee roles across 13 teams:
- Banking & Finance
- Commercial
- Commercial Dispute Resolution
- Construction
- Corporate
- Employment
- Intellectual Property
- Litigation
- Pensions
- Planning & Environmental
- Real Estate
- Real Estate Disputes
- Regulatory & Compliance
- Restructuring & Insolvency
Across six locations:
- Birmingham
- Gatwick/Brighton
- Leeds
- London
- Manchester
- Sheffield
Each office has different teams, and seats are allocated based on business need; please see our website for further details on which departments sit in which office.
Trainees undertake four seats over two years, gaining breadth of experience across the multi-disciplinary teams that service the varying needs of clients in the mid-corporate market and community. BSG teams are collaborative and actively cross-sell their services.
We encourage all our BSG trainees to develop their commercial awareness, to be curious and open-minded about the full breadth of our BSG offering, and to make the most of the opportunities that come with training at such a national firm.
The firm is looking for ambitious, well-motivated individuals with a real commitment to the law who can demonstrate a positive approach to their work. Irwin Mitchell recruits both law and non-law graduates and views social ability as being just as important as academic achievement.
About us
Irwin Mitchell is one of the UK's largest full-service law firms, providing expert legal advice for people and businesses at life's important moments.
As the UK's leading full-service law firm, we believe we have something genuinely different to offer our trainee solicitors due to our wide range of legal teams. You'll have the opportunity to specialise in legal services tailored for individuals or businesses, while simultaneously gaining exposure to our comprehensive suite of teams. This integrated approach ensures clients can fulfil all their legal requirements with us, while allowing you to broaden your legal expertise across a spectrum of interrelated service areas throughout a client's journey.
Our corporate/commercial legal teams form a £60 million business with a national presence, global reach, and a local feel, with 350+ colleagues across six locations. We have established experts covering financial services, living, renewable energy, manufacturing, consumer, sport, education and technology, offering a range of legal services and an exciting opportunity to work across multiple sectors with national and regional clients.
The Legal Services for Businesses stream covers our Business Services Group (BSG), which typically offers 10 to 15 national trainee roles across 13 teams:
- Banking & Finance
- Commercial
- Commercial Dispute Resolution
- Construction
- Corporate
- Employment
- Intellectual Property
- Litigation
- Pensions
- Planning & Environmental
- Real Estate
- Real Estate Disputes
- Regulatory & Compliance
- Restructuring & Insolvency
Across six locations:
- Birmingham
- Gatwick/Brighton
- Leeds
- London
- Manchester
- Sheffield
Each office has different teams, and seats are allocated based on business need; please see our website for further details on which departments sit in which office.
Trainees undertake four seats over two years, gaining breadth of experience across the multi-disciplinary teams that service the varying needs of clients in the mid-corporate market and community. BSG teams are collaborative and actively cross-sell their services.
We encourage all our BSG trainees to develop their commercial awareness, to be curious and open-minded about the full breadth of our BSG offering, and to make the most of the opportunities that come with training at such a national firm.
The firm is looking for ambitious, well-motivated individuals with a real commitment to the law who can demonstrate a positive approach to their work. Irwin Mitchell recruits both law and non-law graduates and views social ability as being just as important as academic achievement.
About us
Irwin Mitchell is one of the UK's largest full-service law firms, providing expert legal advice for people and businesses at life's important moments.

