Corrs Chambers Westgarth
Number of lawyers and partners Corrs have 120 partners and 500 lawyers. Sydney 2020 Clerkship Intake 20 Summer Clerks In July 2020 we will advise if Corrs Spring Clerkship program will be able to go ahead this year. At this time we are unsure if our Corrs’ team will be back working in the office for the commencement of the program. Number of Graduates in Corrs 2020 Intake 24 Sydney graduates How does your firm strive to protect its junior lawyers’ work-life balance? We provide opportunities for professional and personal growth for both legal and business services staff. We take our work seriously but we also recognise the importance of looking after ourselves and having fun. We encourage staff to be socially active and participate in social and sporting events as well as learning and development activities. Some of our activities include mixed netball, pilates and yoga, touch football, cricket day, Friday night drinks, family days, trivia nights, End of Financial Year party and Christmas Party. Corrs also provides flexible work arrangements, paid study leave, salary sacrificing and opportunities to give back to the community. Corrs recognises the importance of health and wellbeing and is committed to providing a safe and healthy workplace through a range of programs and policies. Our wellbeing program provides a range of initiatives to assist people in maintaining good overall health. Importantly, we also recognise the role a person’s manager plays in their wellbeing and we place emphasis on effective ‘everyday leadership’ and have processes in place to monitor a person’s welfare and workload. What opportunities does your firm uniquely offer that may be of interest to prospective clerks? A unique offering in Corrs’ summer clerkship program is the opportunity to complete a pro-bono project over the summer which the cohort will present to the client at the end of the program. Corrs’ Summer Clerks will
also undertake a rotation in three different practice groups during the clerkship. If post-graduate study at Oxford, Cambridge (or a US equivalent) is in a clerk’s future plan then our International Study Scholarship may be of interest. Financial support for the completion of full-time study at one of these prestigious universities is a unique offering by Corrs. Does Corrs offer any opportunities to work overseas? We have offices across Australia and in Papua New Guinea, as well as a leading network of strategic alliances across the globe. We send and have sent lawyers on international secondments to the following firms: Amsterdam – De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek; Chile – Carey; Dusseldorf – Gleiss Lutz; Frankfurt – Hengeler Mueller; Hong Kong – Simpson Thacher & Bartlett; Jakarta – Soemadipradja & Taher; London – Slaughter & May, Macfarlanes, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and CMS; Madrid – Uría Menéndez; Milan – BonelliErede; Mumbai – AZB & Partners; New York – Cravath Swaine & Moore and Skadden; Paris – Bredin Prat; Singapore – Allen & Gledhill; Tokyo – Nishimura & Asahi. What is unique about Corrs’ culture? At Corrs, our culture is defined by excellence, collaboration, commitment and respect. Corrs lawyers are known for their strategic approach with clients. We don’t just focus on legal advice, we provide our clients with strategic guidance to help them mitigate risks and achieve their business goals. Our lawyers work together across practice groups to deliver exceptional results and support you in building your future, wherever you want to take it. Our success is based on the success of our people. We encourage individuals to play to their strengths. And we bring our diverse and talented lawyers together to create top-performing teams. The combination of these factors creates a firm that celebrates its independence, is open to new ideas, has the courage to think and act differently from the rest of the market, and thrives on new challenges and opportunities.
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