×Law ApprenticeshipsYour firm now has free access to the UK's legal apprenticeship talent pool.
Birmingham Law Society has partnered with Law Apprenticeships to open our jobs portal to every member firm, at no cost. Post roles, meet vetted apprentice candidates and build your own fee-earners, with the training up to 95% government-funded.
A partnership built to help our members grow
Recruitment and retention are the two biggest pressures our member firms tell us about. So we've partnered with Law Apprenticeships, a specialist provider with 20 years in legal training, to give every member firm a practical way to solve both, at no cost to you.
This is us using our collective weight to unlock something individual firms would struggle to access alone: a funded pipeline of local, motivated legal talent.
Claim your Birmingham Law Society member access
Register your firm and we'll set up your portal access, walk you through posting your first role, and handle the funding side. It's free for the life of your membership.
What your firm gets by signing up
Everything below is included free as a Birmingham Law Society member. No subscription, no placement fees.
Free access to the jobs portal
Post apprentice and paralegal roles and reach candidates actively looking for a legal career, with no subscription or placement fees.
A pipeline of vetted talent
Meet motivated local candidates who've been screened and prepared for legal work, ready to add capacity from day one.
Up to 95% funded training
The apprenticeship levy covers the training cost. We're a registered provider and claim it back on your behalf.
Grow your own fee-earners
Build capability in-house on a clear route from Level 3 paralegal to Level 7 solicitor, shaped around your firm's work.
We handle the admin
Enrolment, funding paperwork, progress reviews and reporting all sit with us, not your partners or office manager.
Backed by your society
This is a formal member benefit, negotiated by your society so your firm gets access on the best possible terms.
Every candidate arrives as structured signal, not another CV in a pile
You define what a strong hire looks like for the role. We match each candidate's profile and recorded intro against that blueprint and score the fit, so your team spends time on the few people worth meeting, not a stack of near-identical CVs.
Tell us what a strong apprentice looks like for the vacancy at your firm.
Each candidate's profile and video is scored against your blueprint automatically.
The strongest matches surface at the top, with the evidence behind every score.
Invite the candidates worth meeting, and skip the pile of near-identical CVs.
Clear commercial reasoning in their 60-second intro.
LLB modules align with your private-client focus.
Volunteering at the university law clinic shows client-readiness.
Auto-summarised from the candidate's video and profile, so you see the evidence, not a black-box score.
New talent in. Good people kept.
Recruitment, sorted
Retention, built in
How your firm activates access
Register your firm
Fill in the short form below with your firm and membership details. It takes about two minutes.
We set you up
We create your portal access and give you a quick walkthrough of posting roles and reviewing candidates.
Post your first role
List an apprentice or paralegal vacancy and start meeting screened, motivated local candidates.
We fund the training
Once you hire, we handle enrolment and claim up to 95% of the training cost through the levy.
We are very proud of our colleague Danni. This apprenticeship has improved her confidence in working alongside her fee earner, and developing her own skills to become a successful fee earner.
Our experience with Datalaw has been transformational for our first apprentice. I would unhesitatingly recommend Datalaw for those who want to advance their home grown talented team members.
Madi is doing so well and I am very proud of her achievements to date. Thank you to Alex and Datalaw for all the encouragement and training that you have given to Madi in her apprenticeship.