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The SQE Route career site

Let us help you climb the legal ladder

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A new concept helping aspiring solicitors on their road to qualification

We know how hard it is to become a solicitor, but the new SQE route to qualification gives you a better chance than ever to do so.

Owned and managed by a team of qualified solicitors and barristers with significant and real experience within the legal industry, the SQuarE Route is here to help you flourish and achieve your dream.

How it Works

The SQuarE Route will, at no cost, give all students who join:

 

  • A mentor throughout
  • Work experience weeks within out  partner firms
  • A mini pupillage
  • CV, covering letter and application writing masterclasses
  • Commercial awareness training
  • What to expect in an assessment centre
  • The opportunity to attend mock HR interviews
  • The opportunity to attend mock assessment centres

The Best Bit

And most importantly, we will give you the chance to become a SQuarE Route trainee. Every student will have the opportunity to attend a formal assessment centre, with a set number of students being offered training contracts guaranteeing 24 months of Qualifying Work Experience.

What this means to you is that, at the same time as receiving vital work experience, mentoring, and extensive employability training, you will be given the opportunity to secure a guaranteed 24 months of Qualifying Work Experience with us. If you are not successful, we nevertheless will work tirelessly to get you placements within organisations to help you qualify.

Ready to start your journey to qualification?

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Our Values

  • Concentrate on the student and everything else will follow

    This is our one and only company value because by empowering people to build a better future for themselves, we can ensure that we:

    • can identify, develop and invest in diverse talents
    • can challenge the status quo and make a real difference to the legal industry
    • will delight our partner firms and in-house teams by providing superior quality and value
    • our passion to help those most deserving will never wane
    • will act with integrity, accountability and humility
    • can look beyond the present to deliver future value
    • can ensure sustained growth to ensure that our project can help as many as possible

About The SQE Route


We will help you stand out from the crowd.  


The SQuarE Route is a not-for-profit training, development and recruitment agency with the sole aim to help as many aspiring solicitors qualify into the profession as possible.

 

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