Career opportunities

Our global client base provides our people the opportunity to work with prestigious international clients. Appleyard Lees offers a career path within a structure that encourages development for all of our people.

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As a leading intellectual property firm, we are always looking for talented individuals to join our ever-growing team of specialists to work with our diverse range of clients. If you’re looking for a challenging and rewarding position that will allow you to put your legal and technical expertise to use, a career with Appleyard Lees is ideal for you.

We have a reputation for our friendly working environment, for investing in our people, and for retaining employees. We pride ourselves on looking after our staff.

We value individualism, a passion for work and the ability to develop new skills and expertise. Most of all, we want to work with people who genuinely enjoy diverse, challenging work, and want to help us give quality support to our clients globally.

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We have a reputation for our friendly working environment, for investing in our people, and for retaining employees. We pride ourselves on looking after our staff, supporting them throughout their career and providing them with expert training and progression opportunities.

We value individualism, a passion for work and the ability to develop new skills and expertise. Most of all, we want to work with people who genuinely enjoy diverse, challenging work, and want to help us give quality support to our clients globally.

Working at Appleyard Lees – FAQs

Answers to commonly asked questions about our hiring process and working at Appleyard Lees.

The Greenshoots Podcast by Appleyard Lees – episode 38: routes into a career as an IP attorney

In this episode of the podcast, trade mark attorney Vishal Dattani and trainee patent attorney Monifa Phillips discuss joining the IP profession.

Vishal and Monifa introduce the concept of intellectual property,  and discuss how they became trainees, the skills and qualifications needed to become a trainee patent or trade mark attorney, and life as a trainee at Appleyard Lees.

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What’s it like to be a patent or trade mark trainee at Appleyard Lees?

Our trainees blog about their experiences learning about the technical aspects of the IP profession, as well as making relationships internally and externally, managing work load, contributing to IP-related groups and associations, and more, in our trainee blog.

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