Employ an apprentice

Our apprenticeships are designed to meet the workforce needs of our employers. They offer a great way to increase efficiency and productivity whilst enhancing your workplace culture.

Why offer CILEX apprenticeships?

Now is the perfect time to employ an apprentice, develop your staff, recruit fresh talent, meet your CSR objectives and leverage your apprenticeship payments:

Increase efficiency and productivity: apprentices learn valuable skills and knowledge in a specific job role relevant to your company. They progress through our programmes to support a gradual increase in responsibility as they grow in their role 
Recruit and retrain a diverse, talented workforce: our range of apprenticeships combine legal knowledge with real life experience to build a talented team of specialists
Leverage the levy: utilise your levy payments to upskill and develop your staff, and strategically plan your ongoing workforce development
Develop your staff: with flexible entry points you can develop and retain existing talent within your company
Recruit fresh talent: A diverse range of people apply for our apprenticeships, broadening your existing talent pool and helping you to enhance your workplace culture.

Join our CILEX Apprenticeship Webinars

Find out everything you want to know about the CILEX Paralegal Apprenticeship (Level 3) and CILEX Lawyer Apprenticeship for your staff. You’ll also have the opportunity to ask our experts any questions you may have. Don’t miss this chance to equip your team with valuable legal skills and knowledge through CILEX. Secure your space on one of the webinars below:

CILEX Paralegal Apprenticeship (Level 3) Webinars

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CILEX Lawyer Apprenticeship Webinars

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Apprenticeships delivered by CILEX Law School

CILEX delivers apprenticeships through CILEX Law School (CLS).

CLS offer three apprenticeships which offer clear progression, from entry point roles in the legal profession through to qualified lawyer status. The apprenticeships delivered are:

Business Administrator apprenticeship (Level 3)

Set at A-level equivalent, this programme is ideal if you have no law experience or have completed an intermediate apprenticeship or have some prior experience in a business or administration role. It focuses upon those working in business administration roles within a legal environment.

Duration: 18-month programme
Benefits: Develops the highly transferable skills needed to develop, maintain and improve essential administrative services. Off-the-job learning requirement: minimum six hours per week.

CILEX Paralegal apprenticeship (Level 3)

This apprenticeship provides a great entry point into the legal profession. The paralegal apprenticeship is intended to be a destination in its own right, but can also be considered as a steppingstone onto multiple progression routes, including the full CILEX Lawyer apprenticeship offering, the CILEX Professional Qualification, the Solicitor Apprenticeship and Higher Education (both legal and non-legal courses).

Duration: 24-month programme 
Benefits: Develops fundamental legal knowledge and skills, as well as practical skills such as the use of technology and commercial awareness. Emphasis is on swift development of practical skills meaning that apprentices can make a real contribution to the work of their team at an early stage.
Typical role: Legal caseworker, legal assistant, legal file handler, paralegal 
Off-the-job learning requirement: minimum six hours per week

CILEX Lawyer apprenticeship *

This apprenticeship will be for those who have a strong commitment to becoming a qualified lawyer, achieving CILEX Lawyer status. The apprenticeship will provide full practice rights upon completion to those working in non-contentious or contentious areas of law.

Benefits: The mandatory qualifications for these apprenticeships are likely to include the CILEX Professional Qualifications, designed to support the incremental development of workplace skills. The use of such a mandatory qualification provides an objective national benchmark of your apprentice’s development.
Typical roles: CILEX Lawyer, Chartered Legal Executive, Chartered Legal Executive Litigator and Advocate 
Off-the-job learning requirement: minimum six hours per week

*Anyone embarking on this apprenticeship must be in a role which meets CILEX Regulation’s requirements for qualifying employment during the final years of their apprenticeship

To learn more about our apprenticeships, please download our Apprenticeship Guide below.

Download our Apprenticeship Guide

Who is eligible to be an apprentice?

Apprentices must be over 16 years old and live in England. Whilst all apprenticeships are open to both new and existing staff, government funding rules mean that all apprentices must require the development of significant new knowledge, skills and behaviours in their role.

Please contact us for further information about eligibility and entry requirements.