Case Study


Beth Recommends Her Innovative Route to a Career in Law


In May 2010, the entire life of Beth Caygill, from Wakefield, West Yorkshire, was put on hold when she had to spend 10 weeks in hospital after injuring her spine in an accident. One result was she had to miss her AS level exams.


However, just as she was contemplating being behind her contemporaries until completing her education, out of adversity came triumph, thanks to an unexpected conversation about a national top 100 law firm with offices in Leeds, Bradford and London.


Beth explained: “My tutor at Pontefract’s New College received an email about the


apprenticeship scheme run by Gordons and recommended that I apply for it. Gordons emphasised that they were keen to give talented young people careers in the legal profession who might otherwise be denied them by their possible inability to attend universities and obtain degrees.”


Gordons’ apprenticeship scheme, the first of its kind in the legal sector when it began, recruits 18-year-old school leavers each September, who initially become chartered legal executive lawyers over five-to-six years, through a mix of practical experience and study. Eighty per cent of its apprentices are women.


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