Vacancies in the Legal Aid Sector

Release is recruiting a Supervising Solicitor — with genuine flexibility for part‑time or full‑time working — to help shape and expand our legal services at the intersection of social justice, housing/public/community care law, and harm reduction. This role is particularly well‑suited to candidates seeking reduced hours, portfolio careers, or a position that allows for balance alongside caring responsibilities, studies, or other commitments. The successful candidate will join a values‑driven organisation delivering high‑quality casework, innovative community‑based legal services, and strategic litigation aimed at systemic change.

Release was founded in 1967 as the world’s first 24-hour legal helpline for people arrested for drug-related offences. What began as a grassroots response to injustice has grown into the UK’s leading independent drugs charity, dedicated to advancing social justice and harm reduction. For nearly six decades, they have provided free, expert legal advice and representation to thousands of people, while campaigning for evidence-based drug policy and systemic reform.

Wilson Solicitors is looking to recruit for the next generation of lawyers committed to a career in family law. They seek candidates that have a proven keen interest in family law. One of the vacancies is for a caseworker with a passion for public law care proceedings to include a willingness to train to become a court advocate. You will assist their family solicitors with the preparation of their cases and have considerable client contact.

Wilson Solicitors LLP is a highly respected Legal 500 and Chambers recognised law firm with a strong reputation for its family work. They represent both publicly funded clients (through legal aid) and private clients.

Wilson Solicitors are looking for a dynamic solicitor with at least 3 years post-qualification experience to join their highly regarded and expanding Public Law & Human Rights department. They are looking for lawyers to join them in working for their clients in their legal proceedings against central and local government. In return they offer a home within a community of dedicated professionals and a supportive environment in which to thrive in your career. Career development is particularly important to them. There will be the opportunity to become an Associate Solicitor at 4 years PQE.

Wilson Solicitors are one of the UK’s leading legal aid firms ranked in Chambers and the Legal 500 for our civil liberties, human rights, and public law work. They believe in justice for all.

Shelter is recruiting a Solicitor in London. You will ensure you deliver high quality legal services through casework and ensuring Legal aid contract requirements and performance targets are met. You will be able to identify test case opportunities to address systemic bad practice and so achieve change for a greater number of people and will work closely with the Managing Solicitor and the Hub.

Shelter exists to defend the right to a safe home. Because home is everything. They need ambitious, passionate people to join them. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change they are striving to achieve. Their enemy is the social injustice at the core of the escalating housing emergency.

ATLEU is recruiting a housing lawyer. This is an exciting role and will suit someone who enjoys using the law creatively and working collaboratively and is looking to apply their housing knowledge in a senior role in a specialist environment. In this role you will contribute to the development of ATLEU’s work securing support and safe and appropriate accommodation for survivors of trafficking. This role offers opportunities to do traditional housing law and public law cases related to accommodation and support, alongside the opportunity to do public law cases beyond the housing remit if you are interested in this.

ATLEU is the only UK charity that provides specialist, holistic legal advice to survivors of trafficking and slavery.

Wilson Solicitors are recruiting individuals committed to building a career in immigration and asylum law. For the Caseworker role you will need to be accredited under the Law Society Immigration and Asylum Accreditation scheme at any level but ideally at Level 2 Senior Casework level. For the Trainee Solicitor role you will need to have (a) passed the LPC or be studying for it part-time, or (b) passed SQE1; and (c) successfully complete a 6-month probationary period with them before the Training Contract starts.

Wilson Solicitors are one of the UK’s leading legal aid firms ranked in Chambers and the Legal 500 for our immigration work. They believe in justice for all. They are looking to add committed and talented people to their team. 

Wilson Solicitors are recruiting dynamic individuals, with the ability to source their own clients and committed to running a privately funded immigration caseload or a legal aid caseload made up of judicial review and appeals in the Upper Tier Tribunal (or a mix of both). In return they offer the opportunity to help them develop their work in the North West as part of a small team, as well as a home within a larger community of dedicated professionals and a supportive environment in which to thrive in your career.

Wilson Solicitors are one of the UK’s leading legal aid firms ranked in Chambers and the Legal 500 for their immigration work. They believe in justice for all. They are looking to add committed and talented people to their team.

ASAP is recruiting a Training Co‑ordinator/Legal Advisor. This post will be a key member of ASAP’s team, leading on their training programme — one of ASAP’s three core strands of work. This is an exciting, outward‑facing role with real scope to develop your skills and make a tangible impact. It would suit someone who is legally minded, enjoys communicating complex information clearly, and has a genuine interest in asylum support and access to justice. You will play a central part in building knowledge and confidence across the asylum support advice sector, ensuring that people seeking asylum receive high‑quality, accurate advice wherever they are in the UK.

The Asylum Support Appeals Project (ASAP) is a small national charity which was set up in 2003 to reduce the destitution of people seeking asylum by protecting their legal rights to food and shelter.