Summer Placements
A summer placement with Digby Brown is a fantastic opportunity to experience the culture and ethos of the firm, whilst also gaining valuable hands-on work experience with us.
During your summer placement with us, you will be providing assistance on current client cases – reviewing medical records, taking statements and attending client meetings/consultations.
You will also be carrying out worthwhile legal research, which could potentially be added to the firm’s central bank of law journals. You will be given full training and support by one of our solicitors, ensuring that your placement is beneficial and informative.
The summer placement scheme gives you the chance to experience a day in the life of one of our trainee solicitors and may just convince you that a traineeship in personal injury with Digby Brown is the one for you!
Our summer placements take place for six weeks in either our Glasgow or Edinburgh offices and are paid internships.
Applications for the 2025 summer placement are now closed. Applications for next year will open in January 2026.
Contextualised Recruitment
Digby Brown is committed to fostering social mobility and has taken a significant step towards this goal by implementing a Contextualised Recruitment system called RARE for our early careers recruitment, starting from January 2025.
This innovative approach allows the firm to assess candidates more holistically, by considering the context of their achievements rather than solely focusing on raw academic performance. By doing so, Digby Brown can identify talented individuals who have demonstrated potential in challenging circumstances, thus broadening their talent pool and promoting diversity.
The advantages of using a contextualised recruitment system include a more equitable assessment process, the ability to recognise and value diverse experiences, and the opportunity to attract candidates who might otherwise be overlooked by conventional recruitment methods.
When using the RARE system as part of our recruitment process, applicants will complete a short survey relating to their socio-economic background; answering questions on topics such as the receipt of free school meals, having been in care or being a carer themselves, which school they attended, and the home postcode they grew up in.
RARE’s system then uses the responses to measure two things: academic outperformance and disadvantage. The system will aid our recruitment process to identify resilient outperformers and ensures candidates’ applications are reviewed in light of their wider personal circumstances.
