Knights PLC

Values & Culture

Practice Areas

• Agriculture & Rural
• Banking & Finance
• Charities & Not-for-Profit
• Commercial Contracts
• Competition & Antitrust
• Construction & Engineering
• Corporate & M&A
• Data Protection & Privacy
• Dispute Resolution & Litigation
• Employment
• Energy & Natural Resources
• Environment & Planning
• Family Law
• Financial Services & Regulation
• Fraud & Investigations
• Healthcare & Life Sciences
• Hospitality & Leisure
• Housing & Social Housing
• Immigration
• Insolvency & Restructuring
• Intellectual Property
• Media & Entertainment
• Private Client & Wealth
• Professional Negligence
• Real Estate
• Regulatory & Compliance
• Retail & Consumer
• Shipping & Maritime
• Sports Law
• Tax
• Technology & Digital
• Transport & Logistics

Geographic Focus: UK national (32 offices across the UK). Works with a diversified client base including multinational corporations and FTSE companies.

Training Contract

Training contracts are only offered to internal applicants. Trainees spend either 24 or 18 months (depending on previous legal experience) working with Knights' legal teams to gain extensive experience.

Apply on the Knights PLC website →

Notable Matters

What Knights PLC Looks For

Key Competencies

• Team player / one team approach
• Client service orientation
• Commercial awareness
• Adaptability and willingness to work across UK offices
• Commitment to community engagement / volunteering

Evidence Signals

• Paralegal experience or internal experience at Knights (training contracts are internal-only)
• Prior legal experience (noted that many recruits come from Top 50 law firms)
• Examples of team-based work and client-facing roles
• Demonstrable community or volunteering activity (aligned with 4 Our Community)

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Knights believes that people who help other people are more engaged and have deeper perspectives on their communities.

• Our aspiration is to deliver 50,000+ hours to our communities through the 4 Our Community programme enabling colleagues to spend 4 hours of work time per month helping local causes.
• Knights' core ethos is focusing on what people contribute not their background. Our colleagues from many different socioeconomic, ethnic and religious backgrounds are thriving at Knights.
• Diversity and inclusion

Pro Bono

Our aspiration is to deliver 50,000+ hours to our communities through the 4 Our Community programme enabling colleagues to spend 4 hours of work time per month helping local causes.

Innovation

Knights emphasises an innovative corporate model (transition from partnership to corporate structure) that enables reinvestment into people, processes and technology and the incorporation of technology into service delivery.

• In 2012, we established our platform as one of the first law firms to transition from a traditional partnership model to a corporate structure.
• This innovative approach allows us to reinvest our profits into our people, processes, and technology.
• We encompass technology as part of our service (noted in Real Estate/Property Management & Development).

Quick Application Angles

• Apply via an internal paralegal route: Knights only offers training contracts to internal applicants, so a paralegal role is the clearest path to a training contract.
• Demonstrate 'one team' and collaboration: emphasise team-based experience and examples of working collaboratively across functions.
• Show community commitment: reference volunteering or community work (the 4 Our Community programme and the aspiration to deliver 50,000+ hours are important to the firm).
• Highlight commercial awareness and flexibility to work across the firm's UK offices (they operate 32 locations nationwide).