Legal Talent is a national graduate recruitment scheme to designed to match the best and brightest legal talent with the breadth of opportunities in local government legal teams across the country.
We are looking for the next generation of lawyers to bring their passion and values to the workplace, whether it be a desire to lead communities and their residents through the delivery of regeneration projects or assist in the delivery of climate change goals, or the delivery of services that have tangible, everyday outcomes for people's lives such as childcare, planning or housing.
Within your lifetime you will have witnessed a pandemic, Brexit, climate change, and a war in Ukraine. Lawyers within local authorities have provided essential legal services throughout this period - whether it be advice on managing local lockdowns, changing rules around importing goods, entering into contracts for heat networks, or debating the efficacy of energy supply contracts with Russia; these big issues facing our communities today are the dealt with by local authority lawyers. With opportunity for specialism in childcare, adult social care, housing, planning, procurement, education, employment, or commercial, local authority lawyers are also experts on governance, influencing policy and decision making in a Political environment.
If you want to use your legal skills for the greater good, and make a positive difference through your work, a progressive career in law in local government is for you.
The legal talent recruitment scheme opens for applications in 2024.
Be part of something bigger.
Salary/Benefits: Each local authority sets its own salary and benefits package dependant on the position.
Eligibiity: The scheme encourages applications from law graduates and LPC students with a minimum undergraduate degree of 2.2, who have the right to work in the UK. Each post has its own entry requirements dependant on whether it is a paralegal, legal assistant, trainee, or legal apprenticeship position.
