Legal Apprentice

Lets Us Grow Your Legal Career (NCT to Solicitor)

About us

Established in 2000, Express Solicitors is an award‑winning, no win no fee law firm specialising exclusively in personal injury claims. Headquartered in Manchester, we support clients nationwide across all areas of personal injury, including employers’ liability, serious injury, clinical negligence, occupiers’ and public liability, road traffic accidents and industrial disease.

We are ranked 64th in The Lawyer UK Top 200, out of more than 10,000 law firms nationwide, and after achieving a 20% year‑on‑year growth, Express Solicitors are the largest personal injury claimant firm in the UK.

Our commitment to outstanding client care is reflected in our Trustpilot rating of 4.8 (Excellent), placing us among the highest‑rated firms in the sector.

Info on the role

Start your legal career with one of the UK's leading law firms and qualify as a solicitor without going to university full-time.

We're recruiting a number of Legal Apprentices to join us on 26 August 2026. As a Legal Apprentice, you'll earn a salary from day one while gaining real legal experience and studying towards solicitor qualification through our six-year apprenticeship programme.

We deliver on progression

You'll begin your journey as a Legal Apprentice in our New Client Team, learning how personal injury claims work and developing key legal and client service skills.

After your first year, and subject to performance, you'll progress into a Litigation Assistant role within one of our specialist departments. As your experience grows, you'll support solicitors on live cases before managing your own caseload and working towards qualification.

We work hard and play hard

Law has always been seen as a challenging profession. Express Solicitors expect you to work hard for our clients. But we also love to have fun, with regular department socials, yearly Christmas parties (paid for by the business) and every other year a Summer social at the CEO's house paid for by James, himself.

We also have lots of other regular activities, with weekly football and netball games, a running club and a board game night.

About the role

Duties include:

Managing information on our case management system
Creating and maintaining client files
Speaking with clients and gathering information
Recording correspondence accurately
Providing administrative support to legal teams

As a Legal Apprentice, you'll receive:

One paid study day per week
Support from a supervisor, tutor and peer mentor
Structured training and clear progression opportunities

Salary & Working Hours

£10.85 per hour in Year 1 (increasing annually)

Working pattern for your first year:

Our team work on a rotation of one week of early shifts then one week of late shifts.

Early Shift: 08.30 – 17.00 (8:30 – 16:30 on Friday)

Late Shift: 12.00 – 20.00 (12:00 – 19:30 on Friday)

You will be required to work one weekend shift every third weekend, with a day off in lieu in the week, both of which will be fixed following initial training.

Weekends/Bank Holidays 10:00–18:00