Ogier Bursary Scheme 2025 Intake

We offer bursaries to students from Jersey each year.

If you are successful at interview we will issue an offer conditional on you achieving the below grades. We are committed to supporting focused undergraduates or GDL, LPC, BPTC and SQE students.

Following success in obtaining one qualification (for example, your LLB or non law degree), the bursary will continue to be paid during any further courses required to qualify as a solicitor or barrister.

However, the bursary will not be paid if you take a year out at any time. We expect students to maintain our academic minimum requirements throughout their studies and to complete work experience placements with us, which generally equate to a minimum of two weeks across an academic year.

Our bursary scheme is an excellent opportunity for you to earn while you learn, while we do not have a long list of conditions that must be followed, we do ask that if a bursary is accepted from us then no other bursary is accepted from any other firm/organisation. You’ll also need to perform to the best of your abilities during our placements so that both you and Ogier gain the most from this long-term relationship.

Ogier also offers a fully structured, England & Wales Solicitor Training Contract, which is fully regulated by the SRA. Many of our bursary students go on to secure training contracts with us in Jersey or Guernsey and complete their England & Wales Solicitor qualifications with us.

The standard of applicants each year is very high and we ensure that every applicant is given equal opportunity. Interviews will normally be organised during February/March and conducted by one of our senior lawyers or partners and a representative from the HR department.

Please note that all applications will be collated and reviewed after the closing date, 31 January 2025. We will respond to applicants after this time.

Key Responsibilities:

Our bursary award is for the duration of an individual’s relevant studies and consists of:
Financial support in quarterly instalments
Guaranteed work placements at Ogier
Invitations to social events at Ogier
Use of Ogier’s library and information services
Careers advice from partners and other lawyers
Book vouchers when you first join the scheme

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Applications for our bursary scheme are invited from students due to sit their A-Levels in the summer preceding entry onto the scheme, together with students already at university or undertaking GDL / LPC / Bar School / SQE studies. Bursaries are provided in line with the academic year.

The academic requirements for our scheme are:

Two A grades and one B grade at A-Level or higher (or the equivalent in UCAS points), excluding General Studies
2:1 classification of degree or above
Minimum of a Commendation at GDL level or further study level

About Ogier

Ogier provides legal advice on BVI, Cayman, Guernsey, Irish, Jersey and Luxembourg law. Our network of locations also includes Beijing, Dubai, Hong Kong, London, Shanghai, Singapore and Tokyo.

Legal services for the corporate and financial sectors form the core of our business, principally in the areas of banking and finance, corporate, investment funds, dispute resolution, private equity and private wealth. We also have strong practices in the areas of employee benefits and incentives, employment law, regulatory, restructuring and insolvency and property.

Ogier’s corporate administration business, Ogier Global, incorporates and administers a wide variety of vehicles including public and private companies, partnerships and trusts.

Ogier is based in 13 jurisdictions including Beijing, BVI, Cayman Islands, Dubai, Guernsey, Hong Kong, Ireland, Jersey, London, Luxembourg, Shanghai, Singapore and Tokyo.