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Trainee Recruitment Guide Shaping the future
Welcome
Boodle Hatfield continues to go from strength to
strength - we have had an extremely successful year
with growth in all our core areas. We continue to
build up our presence in key sectors and have made
investments into all our teams. This approach is
At a glance 2
made possible by fantastic ideas from our Partners
Who we are and how we started 4 and staff and through their exceptional talent and
Private Wealth 6 hard work we are able to deliver real progress.
Sara Maccallum
Property 7 As a trainee with us you will have access to all
Senior Partner of this and the opportunity to be a part of our
Corporate 8 continuing success.
Litigation 9
Family 10
I started my career at Boodle Hatfield as a
Specialist Areas 11 trainee many years ago, this has come full
Life at Boodle Hatfield 12 circle and I am now the Training Partner
here. Each year we welcome bright and
Corporate Social Responsibilty 14 engaging trainees, we invest in their personal
Diversity 16 and professional development and we get
to see them grow in confidence and ability.
Being a Trainee at Boodle Hatfield 18
Having been a trainee here I understand the
Training at Boodle Hatfield 20 pressures our trainees can face, I spend time
How to apply 22 getting to know each of our trainees during Graham Winkley
their Training Contract and am available to
Benefits 24 them throughout as a sounding board or even Training Principal
1722 Club 26 their Supervisor. Our trainees get to work in
an environment that is engaging and friendly
and with approachable colleagues.
1
At a glance
1722
Year founded
4 The number of trainees to
be recruited for 2020/21 3 Offices in London
and Oxfordshire 22%
Of our Partners joined
us as Trainees
33
Partners
100%
Trainee retention in 2018
180Employees
Top ranked in... Awards... Shortlisted...
•• STEP Awards 2017 - Winner •• Citywealth Magic Circle Awards
•• Chambers UK 2017 Nominated... of Private Client Team of the 2018 - London Law firm of the Year
•• Chambers Global 2018 Year and Contentious Team
•• LCN mid-sized graduate •• Legal Week - The British Legal
•• Chambers HNW 2018 recruiter of the year of the Year Awards - Private Client Team of the
•• EPrivate Client Top 25 Year
Law Firms
Timeline
Robert Andrews, aged 18, works as a legal clerk and estate manager for the
Grosvenor family.
1722
2 3
Who we are and how we
started
Our history Our future
The firm began when our founder, Robert Andrews, worked for There has been an increasing focus on international work, in
the Grosvenor family in the county of Cheshire in 1722, and soon particular from the Middle East and advising entrepreneurial clients
followed them to London to advise them on the development and and family offices. This complements our long-standing work for
management of their London estates. We continued to advise the some of the largest landed estates and family businesses.
Grosvenor family in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries on the Our history remains at the heart of who we are; we value the long
development of the Mayfair and Belgravia estates, which saw them standing relationships we have nurtured with clients over the
transform from countryside to the elegant streets and squares we centuries. We balance this with a modern and agile approach and
see today. entrepreneurial attitude which enables us to attract and service new
Our success clients.
We are now a top 100 law firm which has been advising leading
wealthy, entrepreneurial families on their property, business and
personal lives for nearly 300 years. We have acted for many of
those clients for generations and we are very proud to still be
appointed by some of our very first clients.
We have grown our substantial practice over the years, which has
enabled us to service a full spectrum of clients both domestically
and internationally from our offices in London and Oxford.
Timeline
Following an Act of Parliament reforming the legal profession, Robert
Andrews is admitted as an attorney and then as a solicitor in London. 1730
4 5
Private Wealth Property
Boodle Hatfield has a first class reputation for providing practical,
Property is at the core of what we do for leading families and
effective and innovative legal advice for wealthy individuals and
investment companies. While our main market is London, we have
families, family businesses, landed estates, trustees and family
vast experience advising international and UK-based investors on
offices, both in the UK and internationally.
deals throughout the UK across a broad range of sectors including
We are recognised as one of the leading private client firms in the Residential, Hotel & Leisure, Urban Regeneration, Landed Estates,
UK, with a large domestic and international client base. We have long Industrial and Offices.
standing relationships with clients based within and outside the UK
With approximately 40 specialist property lawyers, including
in relation to their interests in jurisdictions all over the world. We
experts in construction, funding, tax and litigation, our Property
have advised many of our clients for several generations and focus on
department acts for a wide variety of landowners, investors,
growing, protecting and transferring wealth between generations.
developers, funders and residential occupiers.
“While you specialise over time, you get involved in all
aspects of this broad area as a trainee. At any one time you “I have really enjoyed the wide variety of work this seat
may assist with the administration of a complex estate, draft offers - from drafting leases to assisting on the completion
a Will or help project manage the relocation of an offshore of residential transactions. There is a high level of
trust. It is a stimulating and ever evolving area of law.” responsibility but the team are always there for support.”
Manon Huckle, 1st Year Trainee
Michael Duffy, Associate 1 Year PQE
Timeline
The firm gains new clients, including other aristocratic families with landed 1750-
estates. By 1800 there are over one hundred clients.
1800
6 7
Corporate Litigation
Our growing Corporate team acts for businesses and their corporate The litigation team is known for its expertise in commercial,
or individual owners, providing solutions that help those owners to property and art litigation. We have the breadth and depth of
operate their businesses successfully, whether they are starting a experience and expertise to resolve clients’ problems, whether
new project or managing a multi-national family business. domestic or international.
Our corporate clients are high-net-worth individuals, entrepreneurs Our commercial specialists guide our clients on issues around contract
and their private and family businesses, established household disputes, professional negligence, partnership disputes and civil fraud.
names, fast growing and developing companies and smaller quoted Our property experts provide advice over a wide range of disputes
companies. We have experience in a wide range of industries such such as breaches of covenants, lease renewals, forfeiture, and
as property companies, investment funds, luxury assets and fashion, possession of land and tenant insolvency.
technology and the hotels/leisure sector.
Our art litigation experts provide advice on disputes over ownership,
authenticity and provenance, misattributed or damaged artwork,
“The best bit is contributing directly to the deal’s restitution or holocaust claims, art fraud, loss of sale and associated
success; whether it is assisting with the negotiation, losses, and breach of contract.
drafting documents or the completion - it makes you feel “You are encouraged to think about how to best
like a valued part of the team.” approach each client’s issue but can feel comfortable
Cosima Lowe, 2nd Year Trainee asking for guidance from anyone in the team. You may
be drafting and serving a break notice one day and
navigating rights of light another!”
Hugo Brown, 1st Year Trainee
Timeline
Edward Boodle, aged 15, is taken on as an articled clerk. He is the nephew
of another Edward Boodle, who established and owned Boodle’s, still one of 1767
London’s most distinguished gentlemen’s clubs.
8 9
Family Specialist Areas
Our Family team is going from strength to strength, providing Arts & Culture
effective and sensible advice to individuals, families and trustees on
We have a long history of advising individuals, institutional
the full range of family law issues.
collectors, estates and trustees, galleries, art and antique dealers on
If a marriage does break down we can advise our clients on all art law issues. Our art lawyers advise on issues from the disputed
aspects of divorce including general procedure, the division of authenticity of Old Masters to conditional exemption claims for
finances and issues concerning children such as contact, residence landed estates.
and relocation. We also give pre-emptive advice intended to
Entrepreneurs
maximise wealth protection against the possibility of divorce.
We bring together legal specialists across corporate, tax, wealth
The team advises on some very complex and high value cases with
protection, employment and IP to advise entrepreneurs who need
an increasing number having an international element to them.
help with start ups, raising money, selling their business and
“The Family team’s passion for what they do protecting their wealth.
undoubtedly rubs off on you. My experience was Middle East
varied, working on: financial proceedings, pre-nuptial We are offer a full service to Middle Eastern clients, with Arabic
agreements and children matters. It is rewarding seeing speakers across our core practice areas. Our team are not only
all your work come together in the Court room and highly dedicated and commercially astute but they are also attuned
seeing the benefit of it to your client. to cultural and religious sensitivities and the applicable domestic
legal and tax framework within which our clients operate.
Laura Hallahan, 2nd YearTrainee
Timeline
Partner John Boodle becomes the first clerk of the Grosvenor Place trustees,
involved in a massive programme of house building which transformed 1820
London’s Pimlico and Belgravia.
10 11
Life at Boodle Hatfield
Before you start
Once you have accepted your Training Contract we will introduce
you to your fellow trainee intake so that you can start building your
contacts from very early on. From then on you will be invited to join
us at our annual events including the Summer and Christmas parties.
These are a great opportunity for you to get to know your peers and
become familiar with the firm before your first day. Boodle does Netball team outing
Strictly Come Dancing
Once you have joined us
Boodle Hatfield organises a number of firm wide social events
through the year. We have a number of sporting teams including
football and netball and run weekly yoga sessions. Events such as JP Morgan
end of month drinks, charity film nights, the pancake race, ‘games in Corporate
the square’ and more are also open to everyone. Challenge
You are encouraged to participate in activities with clients and other
firms including annual cricket and mixed team netball and dodgeball
matches, as well as the highly rated table football tournament. We
value the contribution that all of our staff can make to strengthening
client relationships.
We recognise the importance of a healthy work-life balance.
Everyone is encouraged to use their time effectively whilst at work
and pursue personal interests outside of work.
Grosvenor’s Got Talent performance Mayfair Art Weekend
by “Boodle and the Hatfields”
Timeline
Our Brook Street offices are sold to the hotelier James Mivart, to become
part of the hotel later known as Claridge’s. The firm moves to 53 Davies 1836
Street.
12 13
Corporate Social
Responsibilty
Community involvement is extremely important to us at Boodle
Hatfield. We recognise our accountability to all clients, staff, the
community and environment and so we try to make a difference
in the way we conduct our business and support initiatives which
contribute to the community and to charitable causes.
In the last year we have invited students to workshops hosted at our
offices and participated in a local Employability Fair for students at
secondary schools in Southwark. Across the firm we have a number Employability fair 2nd Year trainees
of volunteers who devote their time to a weekly reading scheme at a winning Boodle’s
local school. Got Talent
Each year we nominate a Charity Partner to be the recipient of our
fundraising activities. In 2018/19 we are supporting Dementia UK,
who provide specialist dementia support for families through their
Better Bankside
Admiral Nurse service.
student
Our fund raising activities over recent years have ranged from workshop
the fiercely contested ‘Boodle’s got Talent’ and Boodle Baker
competitions to quiz nights, gravity defying challenges, the monthly
‘mystery trolley’, Partner dress up and Boodles very own ‘Strictly’
dance show.
Our Charity Committee works hard throughout the year to arrange
fund raising events we can all enjoy.
Charity abseil down the Quiz night fundraiser
Arcelor orbit
Timeline
The firm is involved on behalf of various major land-owning clients in sales 1849-
of land to several regional railway companies as the rail network spreads 1850
across the country.
14 15Diversity
Boodle Hatfield is fully committed to creating a working environment combined we will be welcoming talent which is 60% female:40% male,
in which all people can excel. The firm has a strong inclusive culture 50% UK state school educated:50% UK independent school educated
of advancement by merit and has robust policies and a supportive and 85% white-British:15% non-white British.
culture. We take a pragmatic approach to accommodating the needs We recognise the changing candidate environment we recruit from and in
of our staff, including flexible working policies to support parents, 2015 we introduced an Apprenticeship scheme which has seen us employ
carers and a healthy work-life balance. apprentices in different departments within the firm. In addition we are
The firm is led by recently re-elected Sara Maccallum who was first dedicated to helping staff achieve career aims and have a number of staff
appointed into the role at a time when less than 20% of females in undertaking professional qualifications, supported by the firm.
the UK’s Top 20 Law Firms were promoted to partnership. Community is important to us and a cornerstone of our values.
We have senior figures within the business who have volunteered to Through our work with local schools we hope to raise awareness of
be role models championing and offering guidance to colleagues on the opportunities in the legal profession for school students from
a range of themes including female leadership, parents & carers and disadvantaged backgrounds, enabling them to make more informed
LGBT+ matters. choices when they come to leave school.
We actively engage in external industry networks and events in We are fully committed to creating an inclusive working environment in
forums which promote values similar to our own. which all people can thrive.
Finding the right people to work with us is important and we benefit Boodle Hatfield is an equal opportunities employer.
from the different perspectives and experiences that our staff bring.
We don’t recruit to fill quotas and so are proud that based on the
indididual’s merits alone in our 2019 and 2020 Trainee intakes
Timeline
George Frederick Hatfield, a solicitor at Freshfields, joins the firm which
becomes Boodle, Hatfield & Co. 1898
16 17Being a trainee at
Boodle Hatfield
Boodle Hatfield is renowned for the high quality of its training. All
Small intake trainees are involved in client work from the start and, with the
appropriate supervision, from an early stage are encouraged to handle
We recruit four Trainees to join us each year. Our trainees value their own files personally.
being part of a smaller intake in our non-hierarchical structure;
taking a greater deal of client contact and more responsibility than Trainees have a formal appraisal with their supervisor every three
in many other firms. They also find this environment helps the months. These meetings give trainees the chance to discuss their
relationships that they form with people at all levels across the firm. progress and to indicate where more can be done to help with their
training and development. In addition, the firm’s Training Principal and
Choosing seats HR Department are always available to discuss training matters and
We have five main areas of specialism which are: private wealth, any other issues that may arise.
property, corporate, litigation and family. As a trainee, you will be Staying on after qualification
asked which seats you would like to complete during your two year
training contract and, where possible, we will try to place you in Wherever possible, we recruit solicitors from our own qualifying
seats which best match your career aspirations, whilst ensuring you trainees. We discuss preferences with our trainees at the start of the
have a balanced training contract and meet the SRA requirements. qualification process and, where possible, seek to offer our trainees
Trainees will usually complete two Property seats and must places in their practice areas of choice.
complete a Contentious seat which would be in the Litigation or We are extremely proud that in 2018 our Trainee retention rate was
Family teams. 100%.
You will spend six months in each seat with the potential to Retaining and developing our talent is important to us and we are
complete a Private Client and Tax seat in our Oxford office. delighted that 22% of our Partnership is made up from Partners who
started with us as Trainees.
Timeline
The death of senior partner Walter Boodle ends the family’s 164 year
continuous association with the firm.
1931
18 19Training at
Boodle Hatfield
You will have a thorough induction during the first few days after you
join us. This will introduce you to different departments and the work
they do and equip you with the knowledge to feel confident on your
first day with your first department. This induction will continue over
your first few weeks and further mini inductions will be arranged for
you after each seat change. 2017 trainee intake taking part
in a yoga challenge as part of
During your training contract, you are required to attend and
the Bankside tour and treasure
successfully complete the Professional Skills Course (PSC). We
hunt
are part of a training consortium so you will attend the PSC core
training sessions with trainees from other firms in the consortium.
We supplement this with further in-house and external trainer-led
training.
Much of your training will happen “on the job”, which means that
you will gain knowledge and practical experience working with real
clients. This is supplemented by support and guidance from our 2018 trainee intake on a treasure hunt of the
experienced solicitors; as a trainee with us, you will develop a range local area during the first week of induction
of skills and be exposed to a variety of specialisms enabling you to
make an informed choice about the area of law you would like to
build your career in.
Social event at Bounce for
Vacation Scheme students
Timeline
Part of the office is converted into an air raid shelter but the offices survive 1935-
the London Blitz. 1940
20 21How to apply
Selection Process Sponsorship
The selection process for 2021 Training Contracts will be held If you accept a Training Contract with us, we will sponsor you through
during July/August 2019. Candidates will be invited to attend an your GDL/LPC with BPP and provide you with a maintenance grant of
assessment day which involves a visit to the London office, including £5,000 per annum whilst you study for your GDL and/or LPC. We do
interviews with the Training Principal, a Partner and the HR Director. not sponsor students retrospectively.
We want our applicants to feel comfortable during the day so you Salaries
will also have the opportunity to take a tour of our London office and We offer a competitive salary which is reviewed annually and a
meet some of our current trainees over an informal lunch. generous benefits package. As at September 2018 Trainees receive a
We have already seen something about you in your application form salary of £40,000 in their first year, £42,000 in their second year and
that has made you stand out. At the interview we are interested our newly qualified Associates receive a salary of £62,000.
in finding out more about you, your interests, and how you would Maintenance grant amounts and salaries are reviewed annually to
engage with our staff and clients. You should use this as an ensure they remain in line with our competitors.
opportunity to do the same.
Entry requirements
An ability test in verbal reasoning will also be carried out as part of
the recruitment process. We welcome applicants from all disciplines and Universities. The
earliest you can make an application for our Summer Vacation Scheme
or a Training Contract is your penultimate year of your law degree or
your final year of your degree for non-law students.
Candidates who apply later than this will be considered but should
include in their application the reason that they have applied at a later
stage.
Successful candidates will have been predicted or awarded a minimum
of a 2:1 at University in a law or non-law degree.
Timeline
The firm celebrates its 275th anniversary with a party at London’s Wallace
Collection. 1998
22 23Benefits
Childcare
vouchers Give as you Enhanced
earn scheme maternity
Season ticket and paternity
loan
Conveyancing schemes
grant Pension
scheme
Private
healthcare
Life
Agile assurance Cycle to
working work scheme
Employee Permanent
assistance
scheme health
insurance
Timeline
The firm moves to its current location at 240 Blackfriars Road, London and
opens a new Mayfair office at 6 Grosvenor Street.
2014
24 251722 Club
With our 300th birthday in sight, we have launched the 1722 Club to 1722 Club continued in a collaboration with
celebrate the year we began, our long history and the clients who have the Royal College of Music, with live musicians
helped us reach this landmark. The idea is simple - we run collaborative taking our guests on a journey from 1722 through
events with our clients in the creative industries to entertain and say
to modern jazz.
thank you to all of the wonderful clients and contacts we work with in
a unique and memorable way. 1722 Club has so far included themes
of couture fashion and live classical music and there are many more in
store…
1722 Club launched with a private salon show of couture designer
Corrie Nielsen’s latest collection.
Timeline
Sara Maccallum was elected the first female Senior Partner at
Boodle Hatfield.
2015
26 27Choosing a career in law and deciding where
you want to train is such an important
decision. We hope that the information
available to you has helped you decide if
Boodle Hatfield is the right fit for you.
We want our people to have fulfilling,
long term careers with us in an area of
the law that they are passionate about.
We look for trainees and staff who are as
Jenny Andrews excited as us about our client base and by
Graduate Recruiter the exceptional quality work we produce
t: +44 (0)20 7079 8282 for them. We do this in a friendly and
e: traineesolicitors@boodlehatfield.com supportive environment and from smart
offices in London and Oxford.
If you still have questions please do contact
me.
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