Training Contract - September 2026 - Maples Group

APPLICATION DEADLINE: on or before midnight on 28 February 2025.

ABOUT THE MAPLES GROUP JERSEY TRAINEE SOLICITOR PROGRAMME

We have created a bespoke legal training programme that offers any aspiring solicitor a stimulating balance of hands-on legal experience comprised with the learning and qualifications offered by the Solicitors Qualifying Examination ("SQE") route to qualification as a solicitor in England and Wales.

We cover the full cost of the SQE preparation courses and exams, and ensure that trainees receive exposure to a wide variety of interesting commercial legal work to build the two years' Qualifying Work Experience ("QWE") required by the Solicitors Regulation Authority ("SRA") to qualify as a solicitor in England and Wales. Upon qualification and successful completion of the programme, trainees will be encouraged to apply for newly-qualified positions with the Jersey office.

To ensure your relocation to Jersey is as smooth as possible, we cover the cost of flights from the UK and provide you with serviced accommodation for your first month with us.

As a global organisation which values a culture of collegiality, we send each trainee on a six-month secondment to one of our global offices.

This is a truly unique offering and opportunity to commence QWE at an early stage, to learn while you earn, to be part of a leading global organisation and to embrace the lifestyle and high standard of living Jersey provides: one which endorses work-life balance and goes hand-in-hand with Maples' positive approach to encouraging wellness.

APPLICATION AND ELIGIBILITY 

We are looking for applicants who want to embrace something different to the well-trodden path of a City training contract, and who are excited about embarking on spending two years (and hopefully beyond!) living and working in Jersey.

We are recruiting for our September 2026 cohort. Applications for the intake are welcomed from all degree backgrounds as well as from career changers.  All of our trainees (irrespective of degree background) will complete a full two years' of training with us.  We are looking for applicants with proven academic excellence, which will include an Upper Second-Class undergraduate degree or pending (to be proven once the degree has been achieved).   

Individuals who have completed an undergraduate degree in Law (and/or GDL/LPC) are eligible to join the same year as graduation. 

If you are a non-law graduate, you are eligible to join the year after graduation (to allow time to complete the 20-week SQ1 preparation course). 

BENEFITS 

• Travel Insurance
• SQE courses and exams fully funded
• Health Insurance
• Life Assurance
• Competitive Salary
• Critical Illness Cover
• Income Protection Cover
• Dress for your day policy
• 25 days annual leave
• Hybrid Working
• Oversees secondments to Dublin and London
• Regular social events

 Our competitive salary offering for our trainees is complemented by a tax regime in Jersey which is more advantageous than in the UK.

ABOUT MAPLES GROUP

We are market leaders in the provision of legal, fiduciary, fund, regulatory and compliance and entity formation and management services, with expertise across a range of jurisdictions, sectors and disciplines.

With over 50 years’ experience in the financial services industry and expertise in the provision of a wide range of domestic and international services, we have become a global partner to our clients with offices strategically situated to best serve their needs.

We offer a broad range of solutions tailored to the unique requirements of each of our clients, independently providing specialised fiduciary, fund administration, regulatory and compliance, entity formation and management and legal services on the laws of the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Ireland, Jersey and Luxembourg.

Over the course of five decades, the Maples Group has grown from modest beginnings into one of the world’s preeminent professional services firms, with operations in the Americas and Caribbean, Asia Pacific, Europe and the Middle East.