Law Scholarships
Benefit from financial support (£2500 per year) during your studies, plus mentoring and paid work experience through a guaranteed place on our First Steps programme.
Benefit from financial support (£2500 per year) during your studies, plus mentoring and paid work experience through a guaranteed place on our First Steps programme.
Scholarship throughout your time at university
Applications for 2023 are currently closed
We believe that a career in law should be open to everyone. Since 2012, we’ve helped some of the brightest and most creative legal minds launch their career by providing financial and mentoring support with UCAS applications and throughout their undergraduate degree, in addition to paid work experience.
We are proud that Scholarship winners have gone on to study at some of the UK’s most prestigious universities and to training contracts at some of the world’s largest law firms, including CMS.
We run two Law Scholarship programmes: the England, Wales and Northern Ireland programme and the Scotland programme. The two programmes are incredibly similar, however it is important that you apply to the programme that reflects your current location.
Applications for our 2023 programme will open in 2023. To register your interest for future opportunities please click here.
Win a Scholarship and, to give you a head start in your law career, we’ll provide you with the following.
(Mentoring support and the opportunity of work experience are offered to everyone who is invited to an assessment day, whether they win a Scholarship or not)
£2500 per year for each year of your degree
Support from one of our lawyers with your UCAS application and the LNAT examination if you are planning on taking this, and a trainee buddy to give more informal support with starting your career in law
The opportunity to complete our Insight Week programme in your first year of university – and be paid £450 to do so! Many participants on this programme are fast-tracked to an assessment day for our Vacation Scheme, the main route to a Training Contract here at CMS.
You must meet all the following criteria to be eligible;
*The scheme is also open to any S6 students in Scotland who do not yet have a place at university confirmed
You also meet one of the following criteria:
ⓘ Check your postcode for eligibility. If you are unsure about your eligibility or would like more information, please contact us at Law.Scholarship@cms-cmno.com
Interesting in applying? Here’s an outline of the different stages involved.
We’ll ask you to write an essay of 750 – 1000 words on a choice of two topics, and complete an application form telling us more about you, what winning a scholarship would mean, and why you’re interested in a career in law. The essay questions to choose from this year are:
1. “Trivial breaches of the law do not matter if there is no victim” Do you agree?
2. Is it legitimate to sanction an individual due to the actions of a government even if that individual has not been convicted of a crime?
On your application form, we’ll ask for the name and contact details of a teacher who knows you well. We’ll then ask them to comment on your academic capabilities and to share any other information that may be relevant to your application.
Consists of an interview and group exercise. During the day you’ll also have the chance to talk to our trainees about life at CMS and meet your mentor. If necessary, we’ll offer financial support (and accommodation) to enable you to attend. Further details can be found in our FAQs.
We will release assessment day dates and teacher reference deadlines (for both locations) in 2023.
Take a look at our FAQs page