Our approach to our Training Contract is very flexible and we currently have trainees who completed their LPC before joining us and others who are undertaking their LPC studies alongside their work at the firm. TSP gives the trainees who are studying a designated study day each week to complete their LPC/SQE and their training contracts are extended accordingly to reflect that study time.
TSP will fund the LPC/SQE routes for any candidates who have not yet completed these qualifications. However, please note we do not fund any conversion courses for non-law graduates and would expect any prospective non-law candidate to have successfully completed a conversion course /GDL before they join us.
Our Training Contract usually consists of four core seats of six months duration each, although this arrangement can be flexible as mentioned previously. These seats can be in either our Colchester or Clacton office. Each trainee will usually complete a seat within the following departments:
- Corporate and Commercial;
- Dispute Resolution;
- Wills and Estates; and
- A combined property seat in Residential and Commercial Property.
We ask the trainees their preference for their final seat and do our best to match them with this practice area, wherever practicalities and business need allows. Other practice areas which trainees may experience at TSP are:
- Clinical Negligence and Personal Injury;
- Agriculture (part of our Commercial Property team);
- Employment; and
- Family.
Our trainees meet frequently, both as a group and individually, with our Training Principal and we have a comprehensive feedback and review system in place so that trainees are well supported during their Training Contract. Trainees are actively encouraged to get involved in all aspects of life at TSP, including networking, business development and charity initiatives in the community.
