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Legal Assistant - Planning and Environment

🏒 Freeths β€’ πŸ“ Nottingham, England β€’ πŸ•’ Sep 14, 2026
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Full Benefits Package

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Nottingham, England
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Position Overview & Specifications

We are currently recruiting a Legal Assistant position to join our Planning and Environment team in Nottingham on the Legal Assistant Programme.

Our Legal Assistant Programme allows you to gain grass roots experience of working in a legal environment alongside our talented lawyers. You will provide a combination of administrative and legal support to Trainees, Lawyers and Partners, which means that you get a true picture of what a career in law could offer you in the long term. We are looking for outstanding Legal Assistants with excellent academics, first class organisation, with the ability to build lasting relationships and have a flexible and can-do attitude to contribute and succeed with us.

Legal Assistant positions are initially for 6 months. We review performance at 3 monthly intervals; at the 6 month mark we are assessing performance and attitude with a view to offering a second 6-month contract. At the 9-month stage we decide whether to offer funding for the Solicitor Qualifying Examinations.

If you wish to apply, please complete our application form via Apply4Law:

https://www.apply4law.com/freeths/

PLEASE NOTE WE CAN ONLY ACCEPT APPLICATIONS FOR THIS POSTION THROUGH APPLY4LAW

Freeths

The Freeths Group is one of the UK’s leading regional law practices. We offer services to both the commercial and private client across the entire legal spectrum. We operate from offices in Birmingham, Bristol, Derby, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Nottingham, Oxford, and Sheffield.

The firm has a wide range of clients throughout the UK with many clients having strong international connections. We have over 150 partners and more than 800 members of staff in total.

Our client base reflects our nationwide strength and our nationwide service delivery. We are committed to continuous improvement and our increasing success as a business is built on achieving success for our clients. We work in close partnership with clients, providing positive, practical solutions and clear, comprehensive advice.

Our aim is to attract and retain the most talented people, and part of this is providing a great place to work. So, to support fairness and equality and to encourage a healthy work-life balance, we continually monitor and improve our benefits.

We are proud that what we have achieved has been recognised over the past few years, being awarded Best Companies star status on a number of occasions and have featured in the Sunday times 100 Best Companies to Work For. We are also a silver standard accredited investor in people Company, which means we are recognised for our efforts to improve workplace engagement, leadership, personal growth, well-being, team working and our impact on society.

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Technical & Competency Interviews

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Formal Offer & Benefits Negotiation

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