The trainees and their respective first departments at Birketts are:
- · Andrea Bailiss (Commercial Property)
- · Georgia Butterworth (Commercial Property)
- · Georgina Everett-Beecham (Corporate Criminal Defence)
- · Helen Galer (Employment)
- · Laura Herbert (Corporate)
- · Joshua Jaworski (Commercial Property)
- · April Lyon (Commercial Property)
- · Georgina Mauger (Private Client Advisory)
- · Robert Mackay (Corporate)
- · Catherine Moss (Corporate)
- · Xiaguang Ni (Construction)
- · Charlotte Simpson (Commercial Property SIPPS)
- · James Stocker (Commercial Property)
Jonathan Agar, Chief Executive Officer, for Birketts, said: “I am delighted to welcome this year’s trainees to the firm. Birketts continues to grow at pace but it is essential that our trainee recruitment programme lays a strong foundation for our future. Having recently reported a record turnover of £47.85m for the last financial year, moved to new headquarters in Ipswich and passed the 600 mark for the number of Partners and staff working at Birketts, the future looks very bright.”
Shaun Savory, Human Resources Director at Birketts, added: “Birketts operates structured graduate recruitment and trainee training programmes. Our overall aim is to give our trainees an ideal opportunity to develop their legal skills with high quality work and to find the practice area that best them.”
Birketts offers training contracts to law and non-law graduates from a variety of backgrounds. To learn more about the trainee application process please visit our designated training contract web pages www.birketts.co.uk/training-contract.
Birketts is listed as a Lex 100 Winner for 2017/18 in six categories: ‘living up to expectations’, ‘low stress levels’, ‘work/life balance’, ‘friendliness’, ‘social life’ and ‘vacation scheme’.