Norton Rose Fulbright How many partners and lawyers does your firm have? Approximately 130 partners and 430 lawyers How many clerks are you intending to take on this summer? Around 70 nationally How many graduate lawyers did you take on this year? 35 – 40 nationally How does your firm embody the notions of social and corporate responsibility? At Norton Rose Fulbright Australia our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program is a vital part of our cultural make-up and community spirit. CSR is a way to give back to those in need. It is our responsibility as corporate citizens to do the right thing. We aim to create an environment which: educates, encourages and supports our staff in acknowledging their responsibility to participate in activities which contribute to our community; support the underprivileged; respect the environment; and acknowledge and respect Indigenous Australians. We focus our CSR efforts in support of human rights, Indigenous rights, rights of the LGBTI community, rights of women and children, rights of homeless people, and rights of those in the community who are otherwise less fortunate. Through our CSR program we demonstrate our commitment to strong corporate citizenship and live our values of Quality, Unity and Integrity. How does your firm strive to protect its junior lawyers’ work-life balance? We appreciate that maintaining a work life balance is an important aspect for all our employees. We encourage all our people to balance flexible working in their everyday work with work and client commitments to ensure they don’t compromise on what is important to them – whether its maintaining some form of exercise, undertaking carers responsibilities or other social activities. We encourage our people to take advantage of our formal flexible work arrangements including part time work, remote working and job share arrangements as well as a combination of all. In addition to this, we launched a formal agile working program for those wanting to incorporate ad-hoc and less formal flexible work practices into their day to day work schedule.
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What opportunities does your firm uniquely offer that may be of interest to prospective clerks? Our summer clerkship program offers a real taste of life as a Graduate, including: attending clients meetings and teleconferences, visits to court, research, preparation of court documents, drafting deeds/contracts, discovery and much more. There will also be additional activities for you to take advantage of including: • • • •
Key skills training with our Learning and Development team Q&A sessions with our leaders Presentations about practice areas and deals Networking and social events
Does your firm offer any opportunities to work overseas? Norton Rose Fulbright’s Graduates are provided with the opportunity to complete a six month secondment in one of our international offices around the world. So far, our Graduates have done secondments in the United Kingdom, Singapore, Hong Kong, Dubai, South America and the United States of America. What makes your firm’s culture unique? Norton Rose Fulbright vision is to be a world class business, profitable, ambitious, cooperative and considerate, supporting our clients and people through our global business principles of Quality, Unity and Integrity. We apply our business principles to all our activities world-wide. They describe our culture and personality both internally and externally, the way we work and what we stand for. Quality – We’re a team of the highest calibre, providing consistently high quality work, because our clients always come first. Unity – We share our knowledge and we work to support one another across teams and borders, because our team culture makes us who we are. Integrity – We’re trustworthy, open and fair. We respect colleagues and clients deeply, and we work to the highest ethical, professional and business standards.
