Irwin Mitchell: They offer two training contract streams covering their two main fee-earning divisions: Personal Legal Services and Business Legal Services. In the former, in the first year of your two year contract you will undertake three four-month seats, gaining experience of different teams within your chosen division. In your second year, it’s likely that you’ll spend the full 12 months in the department that you expect to qualify into. Irwin Mitchell is a full-service law firm with offices around the UK and you get a choice of both location and the kind of work that you would like to specialise in. including personal injury, family law, real estate or employment. In Business Legal Services within the two year contract you will undertake four six-month seats. The fourth and final seat will be in the department that you expect to qualify into. You may do seats in employment, real estate, commercial litigation, corporate and transactions, commercial lending, insolvency and/or debt recovery. They will meet all the fees associated with your LPC and if applicable your GDL as well as a maintenance grant.