Legal Administration Apprenticeships
Damar’s legal administration apprenticeships combine the business administrator standard with bespoke legal modules to develop the knowledge skills and behaviours required for administrators working in law firms and legal teams.
The apprenticeship is suitable for both new and existing staff in roles such as legal secretary, administrator, legal receptionist and personal assistant.
On our legal apprenticeships page you can also find more information about other apprenticeships utilised within legal settings
Benefits to your legal team
Legal administration apprenticeships bring a range of benefits to law firms and legal teams across England, such as:
- Creating an entry point for career pathways to paralegal and qualified solicitor
- Improved client services
- Increase staff loyalty and retention
- Freeing up time of fee earners and other senior members of staff
- Bringing fresh perspectives and new innovations
- Driving service and process improvements.
The Damar Difference
Our legal administration apprenticeships draw on Damar’s substantial legal expertise to create a bespoke programme that delivers real impact:
- We are a leading provider within the legal sector and working with hundreds of law firms and legal teams across England
- The apprenticeship is structured to allow for manageable chunks of learning that can be implemented in the workplace in real time
- Expert coaches guide apprentices through their programme through 121 and group coaching sessions
- Peer to peer learning is also facilitated through the group sessions and our online forums.
“The apprenticeship gives us the opportunity to train candidates in way that is suitable to the business. The apprentice on my team has developed from administrator up to a litigation case handler.”
Kellie Wiggins
Carpenters Group
Apprenticeship delivery
The business admin apprenticeship takes around 15 months to complete. It is delivered through:
- Pre-work: Reading or video content relating to the module
- Group coaching session: Apprentices ask questions, discuss their learning with peers and prepare themselves for the individual activity
- Individual learning activity: Apprentices work through the activity brief, building their evidence to support the portfolio and end-point assessment – this allows the apprentice to embed and contextualise their learning
- Main learning: Self-directed, interactive content on our online learning platform
- 1:1 coaching visit: Every six weeks the coach and apprentice meet to review progress, discuss personal development and sign-off completed modules
- Review meeting: Every 12 weeks the coach, apprentice and line manager meet to review progress.
The legal admin component includes a further three modules which apprentices undertake during their programme:
- Legal environment: Basic knowledge of how laws are made and overview of how the legal system operates in civil and criminal matters
- Proofreading: How to proofread legal and business documents
- Area of law: Apprentices will undertake one of the following:
- Principles of criminal liability
- Family law
- Conveyancing
- Wills and succession.
The content is delivered through online learning and is assessed during the modules with quizzes and activities built into the course. The proofreading module also involves a final assessment.
Develop your legal team with Damar
Here at Damar, we have decades of experience working with law firms and legal teams. We are the perfect partner to support your workforce development needs and enable your team to grow and develop.
If you’d like to talk to us about the benefits that our apprenticeship training could bring to your team, please get in touch.
Legal administration apprenticeship FAQs
There is a small additional cost for our legal administration apprenticeship. Please get in touch with us for further details.
Many of our legal administration apprenticeships progress onto our paralegal programme and then onto solicitor. Others go into team leader or other first-line management roles.
We work with hundreds of law firms across England including CMS, DWF, Davies Group, Clyde & Co, Irwin Mitchell and Pinsent Masons. We also support many legal teams across public sector and other private sector organisations.
If we haven’t answered your question above, have a read of our employer FAQs for more information.
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