Apprentice Megan finishes Gordons scheme

The 23-year-old has qualified as a chartered legal executive and will now work in Gordons’ private client team.

Ms Boldison was accepted onto the scheme five years at just 18-years-old, during which time Gordons has provided her with practical experience and academic study, as well as paying her salary and course fees.

In all the Gordons Apprenticeship Programme has taken on 19 apprentices since being set up in 2011, including its first graduate, Bryony Russell, 24, who qualified earlier this year.

Ms Boldison said: “Applying for the Gordons Apprenticeship Programme was the best decision I have made. I threw myself into the real world and got great hands-on experience alongside a senior lawyer. By the time my university friends were looking for their first job, I was one year off being a qualified lawyer.

“I hope more firms and students realise that non-university routes are a viable option to a good legal career. Gordons was one of the first firms to recognise you don’t have to go university to succeed as a lawyer and I’m so grateful they gave me a chance.”

Gordons is understood to be the first law firm to offer an apprenticeship programme taking its chartered legal executive lawyers to the maximum Level 6 – an honours degree equivalent.

The programme has won multiple awards and led to Gordons being described as “leading the way on social mobility in the legal profession” by Social Mobility Commission chair, Alan Milburn.

Gordons partner and head of operations, Victoria Davey, said: “Megan is a bright and hardworking lawyer and a real asset to our private client team.”