Graduate Development Programme

 

The firm focuses on both commercial and personal practice areas serving a growing number of businesses in the local area as well as on the international market. For the commercial sector the firm offers the following areas of commercial activity: corporate; commercial conveyancing; employment; litigation and dispute resolution; aviation; maritime; space and telecom.

For individuals, the firm provides private and publicly funded advice. Private individual have the benefit of our services in the following areas: employment. family, civil litigation and dispute resolution, debt and bankruptcy, air transport, immigration, residential Conveyancing, housing.

Currently, the firm is licensed to provide public funded advice in employment, debt, family, community care, welfare benefits, and housing.

The ambition of the firm, since its inception, is to be the premier law firm in London South East within 6 years of operation. This ambition underpins our business strategy. We aim to achieve this goal through sustained investment in training of qualified staff.

Additionally, the firm aims to implement a graduate career development programme for young legal, marketing, IT and business administration students of colleges and universities in its catchment area.
 

The firm will enter into mutually beneficial partnership agreements with universities and colleges in South London.

Partnership agreements and eventual placements will be in compliance with the firm’s office manual.
 

The firm has partnership training programmes in  law, marketing, business administration, accountancy and IT. 

Work experience and graduate training programmes for people starting out in their legal career.

The programme consists of:

• short term vacation placements

• Final year LLB volunteering – multi month

• LLM students placements – multi month

• LPC – placements for LPC students

• BVC – placements for BVC students

The programme consists of:

Volunteer placements for marketing students will be limited to a study of BH Solicitors marketing strategy, annual qualitative analysis and continuous evaluation and updates. Partnership agreement will be offered to one University in the catchment area.

Places will be offered to

•  MA (Marketing, Strategic Marketing & Professional Services Marketing) – multi-month placements

Vacation work experience and short term work placements will be offered to Business Administration, Accountancy and IT students of partner institutions.

The main focus will be to offer training opportunities for students from disadvantaged communities within the borough.