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Careers

Welcome to the BLS careers page.

Here you will find our Jobs Board where employers and organisations can post, and individuals can search for local fee-earner, business support, lecturing opportunities, work experience and trustee roles.

For those considering a career in the law, you will find useful information on the legal careers pathway page together with information on our local FE and HE institutions who provide relevant training courses and more advice on how to progress your career. You can search our Job Board for work experience opportunities too!

For those already in the profession who are either interested in becoming a mentor or finding a mentor, you can find more information about local schemes and national organisations who can assist you on our mentoring page.

Looking to advertise a role?

For more information on our Jobs Board fees and T&Cs contact Helen Read, Chief Executive (former legal recruitment specialist) on 0117 945 8486 or at Helen.Read@bristollawsociety.com

Recruitment Agency Service
We are delighted to be working with Hays Legal as our exclusively endorsed recruitment partner to the legal market.

With a proven track record of over 25 years, Hays Legal provide a comprehensive recruitment service to both law firms looking for legal and business support talent, and lawyers looking for new opportunities in the market.

For law firms, they offer tailored solutions from contingency-based sourcing to retained campaigns and strategic recruitment management solutions.

For lawyers they offer confidential, expert advice on opportunities, compensation, business plans and exit strategies relevant to professionals considering a move.

If you are an employer looking to fill a legal or business support vacancy, or an individual considering your next move and wish to discuss your options please contact:

Sheldon Carlisle, Senior Business Manager at Hays Legal on 0117 3746300 or at sheldon.carlisle@hays.com

A list of Hays current live vacancies can be found at Live Vacancies

Burges Salmon has been an enthusiastic supporter of BLS for many years. BLS provides a valuable role in uniting and promoting the whole of the legal sector across Bristol to benefit both its members and the city. It facilitates collaboration across the sector to ensure that we can all make a difference. Whether that is driving important initiatives in, for example, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and the use of new technologies, liaising with stakeholders and charities in our wider community or providing training to generations of lawyers, the service and support provided by BLS is invaluable. More recently BLS has taken a lead on promoting Bristol’s legal brand, encouraging legal and business services talent to come to the city, which in turn attracts clients and inward investment to our thriving and vibrant commercial community. BLS breaks down barriers and brings those in the profession together for the greater good. We are proud of our long-standing association with BLS.
Roger Bull - Managing Partner, Burges Salmon
Three things to say about my experience of working with Bristol Law Society. Their central team, council members and general hangers-on are just about the nicest, most generous group of people working in the legal sector today. The numerous events, awards, socials and conferences I’ve had the pleasure to attend over the years have been, without exception, top quality and supremely organised. And, thirdly, they consistently exceed and challenge the boundaries of what lawyers might assume a regional Law Society will restrict activities to – from a hugely successful charitable school meals drive to corporate social responsibility and diversity campaigns to being joint architects and coordinators of the region’s unique Bristol+BathLegalTech group, which it has been my privilege to co-chair for the last five years.
Chris Bull - Principal, Edge International
As one of the leading Insurance brokers for law firms in the UK and with a large presence in Bristol it seemed only natural for us to support the Bristol Law Society. Bristol Law Society is one of the oldest and most vibrant of the Law Societies in England and Wales. We are pleased to be working with them on important matters relating to law firms’ liability insurances and Risk Management. From Sole Practitioner to Top 20 law firms we are sure our two organisations can provide excellent support and assistance for the challenges faced by the legal profession.
Matthew Baker - Financial Lines Group, Howden Insurance Brokers Ltd
Joining BLS in 2013 and becoming President in 2018/19 has created many longstanding friendships and business relationships, whilst also unlocking doors to other opportunities in the City. BLS enabled a perfect balance of professional development and also opportunities to give back to the legal and wider community. I am pleased that my Firm has supported BLS in many capacities since 2013 and continues to do so.
Nicholas Lee- Managing Director of Paragon Costs Solutions and Past President of BLS