Early Careers
An excellent place to work with a great hands-on training experience and colleagues who are your friends.
An excellent place to work with a great hands-on training experience and colleagues who are your friends.
Each year, we recruit exceptional talent from a range of disciplines to help us continue to provide a personal, innovative, and high-quality service for our clients. The expertise of our partners and lawyers, combined with our collaborative approach and award-winning training and wellbeing programmes, makes the firm an exciting place to begin your legal career.
We hope the trainee solicitors we recruit will continue to develop with us and go on to become our future partners. A training contract with Penningtons Manches Cooper will offer you the opportunity to grow into a knowledgeable and confident lawyer whose career will thrive, helping us to maintain our standards of excellence and making an individual contribution that will drive us further as a firm.
We welcome applications from all degree disciplines and from applicants at all stages of their careers – we see the value people can bring when they have gained relevant experience in other roles. In addition to our vacation scheme and trainee solicitor programme, we offer work experience placements that aim to provide support and guidance to students from a variety of backgrounds.
This year we will be at the following virtual and in-person events, so please do come and see us if you have questions or want to get a better feel for the firm and hear real life experiences from some of our employees.
| Event - law fairs | Date |
| 2 October 2025 | |
| 18 November 2025 | |
| 24 October 2025 | |
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Oxford University - Law Fair |
11 October 2025 |
| University of Reading - Law Fair | 29 October 2025 |
| University of Leicester - Law Fair | 5 November 2025 |
| University of Law - Reading Campus - Law Fair | 5 November 2025 |
| University of Birmingham - Law Fair | 12 November 2025 |
| University of Kent - Law Fair | 13 November 2025 |
| University of Southampton - Law Fair | 13 November 2025 |
| University of Law - Royal Holloway Campus | 18 November 2025 |
| Legal Cheek Virtual Fair | 18 November 2025 |
| Event - open days | |
| Birmingham open day | 9 October 2025 |
| Disability Inclusion open day at PMC | 6 November |
| London open evening | 27 November 2025 |
| Virtual open evening (all offices) | 2 December 2025 |
To read more about what it is like to train and work at Penningtons Manches Cooper, please visit:
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