The training programme is well structured. The opportunity to spend time with – and learn from – different Attorneys is an invaluable training experience.
Through our three year Trainee Attorney (TA) placement scheme, we have always supported our TAs with their professional qualifications by offering hands-on experience across a varied range of work with different Partners. The scheme sees our TAs spend some time in at least one ‘other’ UK office during the programme. There are many ways to achieve this, the specific approach is based on personal circumstances and preferences.
We believe that our TAs have a richer learning experience by working with different partners in-person, and Supporting our TAs financially to do make at least one office move will provide our TAs with more control over their own training path and overall provide greater flexibility.
Our Trainees work with three Partners during the programme. Trainees move between principals roughly every twelve months. Any location changes are always done in consultation with our Trainees and personal circumstances accounted for to make any transitions as smooth as possible.
After two to three years, (depending on preference) Trainees settle permanently into one of the firm’s offices where training will continue through to qualification. This ‘final’ location may be the same as your starting location or may be different depending on your preferences and overall plan, which you will feed into. After qualification we continue to give support to newly qualified Attorneys, although this is on a more informal basis. Our offices are based in Bristol, Cambridge, London, Manchester and Munich.
Trainees usually join Mewburn Ellis in September (sometimes May), starting with a week’s induction course which is usually held in one of our UK offices.
The scheme for Trade Mark Attorneys is very similar to the above but placements centre around our Bristol and London offices.
