Allen & Overy How many partners and lawyers does your firm have? • • •
23 Partners in Australia / 550 Partners in our global network 2800 lawyers in our global network 5500 employees working across our global network
How many clerks are you intending to take on this summer? It depends on our business needs. Last year we had 10 summer clerks in Sydney.
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What opportunities does your firm uniquely offer that may be of interest to prospective clerks? • •
How many graduate lawyers did you take on this year? Our summer clerk program is a feeder program into the graduate program. We can successfully say we have offered each of our summer clerks a graduate position to-date. How does your firm embody the notions of social and corporate responsibility? Each day, we challenge ourselves to bring original thinking to society’s biggest challenges. We recognise that every one of our people can make a significant contribution and that when we work together, we have the power to change lives. We rise to the challenge of looking at ways in how we can improve our environmental performance and empower our people to make a positive impact. We have worked on landmark cases to support people facing human rights violations in conflict-affected areas and soon we’ll reach our goal to raise £1 million for our global charity partner, Hope and Homes, to help end institutionalised care for children around the world. We recognise that there is always more to do and we are determined to do just that. How does your firm strive to protect its junior lawyers’ work-life balance? The overall health and wellbeing of our people is essential and we work hard to ensure our junior lawyers achieve a balanced working life. We ensure that our lawyers feel supported through their careers mentally and emotionally as well as supporting their physical health. Our support includes: • Agile and flexible work arrangements for staff through our iFlex policy • Paid transaction breaks between periods of high busyness • Establishing a reverse mentoring program, enabling the voice of more junior staff to be heard at partner level • 24/7 access to our employee assistance program • Appointing value partners throughout the firm to ensure the firms values are upheld • Promoting mental wellness, through our “Mind Matters” program, offering various resilience skills workshops, promoting initiatives such as “R U OK?” ,
“Heart on My Sleeve” and MOvember. Subsides gym memberships, internal sporting teams, on-site flu vacations, skin checks and massages, health and well-being newsletters, mindfulness memberships, and healthy snacks are available
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2 rotations over a 10 week period Insight into Asia experience – every clerk has the opportunity to spend 1 week in one of our Asia Pacific offices during the clerkship Hands on experience working alongside practising lawyers Real, interesting and challenging work where you will shadow lawyers daily and contribute with tasks where appropriate A lot of fun and exciting social activities organised with your cohort, graduates and others in your team Opportunity to participation in our White Chapel volunteering day and ABCN program Social sport alongside other summer clerks at different law firms
Does your firm offer any opportunities to work overseas? We encourage our staff to let us know if they would like to go on secondment, whether to an external client or internally to another office in the network. Our summer clerks have the opportunity to take part in a 1 week Insight into Asia experience where they venture to one of Asia Pacific offices to learn about the other office and build upon their network. What makes your firm’s culture unique? We work to attract, develop and keep the very best people. All kinds of people work at Allen & Overy, with a few things in common. We are united by ambition and drive, and by the restless pursuit of excellence in everything we do. We foster a working environment based on collaboration and mutual respect, where everyone is trusted to do their very best work. We are committed to ensuring that A&O is a place where diverse group of people can be themselves and bring the best of themselves to their career. We are proud of our initiatives to promote diversity and inclusion within the firm, the legal profession and the community. We encourage everyone at the firm to pursue their interests, and passions to complement their skills and ambitions.
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