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Bird & Bird LLP Over the course of nearly 190 years, Bird & Bird has evolved into a respected global business, serving clients in 118 countries from 25 offices across Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Today, our clients include more than half of those listed by Forbes as the world’s 100 most innovative companies. Meet our representatives and find out more about a career in a fast-paced and challenging environment. londongraduates.twobirds.com Bond Dickinson LLP Bond Dickinson LLP is a newly created national law firm following the recent high profile merger of Bond Pearce and Dickinson Dees. We act as the trusted advisor on the strategic, regulatory and operational requirements for a significant number of FTSE 350 companies, similar quasi public and private sector organisations, charities, trustees and high net worth individuals. www.bonddickinson.com BPP Law School For over 35 years, BPP has been helping professionals realise their ambition. Our Law School provides a range of undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, law conversion programmes and diplomas, all of which are designed to get you ready for life in practice. Our track record speaks for itself, as over 25 leading firm choose us as their exclusive training provider. www.bpp.com Burges Salmon Burges Salmon is consistently ranked among the UK’s most successful commercial law firms, boasting a highly impressive national and international client base, with the quality of our expertise widely recognised across all main departments including Corporate & Financial Institutions, Commercial, Dispute Resolution, Environment & Planning, Real Estate and Private Client. www.burges-salmon.com/Careers Chartered Institute of Legal Executives CILEx is the professional association which represents Chartered Legal Executives. Chartered Legal Executive lawyers are ‘authorised persons’ working alongside solicitors and barristers. They specialise in a particular areas of law, and will have been trained to the same standard as a solicitor in that area. CILEx offers an alternative to the traditional LPC/BPTC route to legal practice. www.cilexcareers.org.uk Clifford Chance LLP Together we are Clifford Chance. At Clifford Chance our goal is to be at the forefront of the elite group of international law firms. To join us you will need to share our ambition and our willingness to grasp new opportunities and enjoy being part of an exceptional team that helps businesses and individuals address the challenges of succeeding in increasingly complex and global gradsuk.cliffordchance.com markets.
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Clyde & Co LLP Clyde & Co is a global law firm with a pioneering heritage and a resolute focus on its core sectors of aviation, energy, infrastructure, insurance, marine and trade. With over 1,400 lawyers operating from 30 offices and associated offices in six continents, the firm advises corporates, financial institutions, private individuals, and governments. www.careers.clydeco.com/trainees CMS Cameron McKenna What’s in a name? A lot, when it’s CMS. Firstly, we’re the leading European group of law firms, with more offices in Europe than any of our direct competitors. Secondly, we take a genuine, client-focused approach that attracts some of the world’s biggest organisations. Last but not least, we know how to take talented people much, much further – geographically, intellectually and professionally. graduates.cms-cmck.com Dentons Dentons is a client-focused global legal practice delivering quality and value, with lawyers and professionals in 79 locations worldwide. We have disciplined focus on meeting the evolving needs of our clients, in 24 sectors. graduates.dentons.com Devon Chambers Devon Chambers is a set of Barristers, based in Plymouth, who provide expert advice and advocacy services throughout the South West. Our members provide experience and expertise in all areas of common law. We have specialist practice teams that cover crime, family, personal injury, commercial, property, housing, local authority, employment and police and www.devonchambers.co.uk prison law. DLA Piper DLA Piper is a global law firm with 4,200 lawyers located in more than 30 countries throughout the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe and the Middle East, positioning us to help companies with their legal needs anywhere in the world. We have approximately 80 Training Contracts on offer for 2016 and approximately 130 summer schemes for 2014. www.dlapipergraduates.co.uk Eversheds LLP Eversheds LLP is one of the largest full-service law firms in the world with over 4,100 people and 43 offices in major cities across Europe, the Middle East and Asia. We are looking for highly ambitious and focused trainees to help us achieve our goals. Eversheds people are valued for their drive and legal expertise but also for their business advice too. We develop the same qualities in our trainees. www.eversheds.com
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Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe (Europe) LLP Orrick is a leading international law firm with more than 1,100 lawyers in 23 offices across Asia, Europe and North America. If you set your standards high, have a strong work ethic and are a bright, talented graduate of any discipline looking for a firm offering a broad-based training contract, then Orrick could be for you. www.orrick.com/careers/london Osborne Clarke At Osborne Clarke we turn our legal expertise into our clients’ commercial gain. With our experience and imagination we give our clients tailored, practical advice that makes a difference to their business. Our sector focus means that we know a range of industry sectors inside out, including Digital Business, Energy and Natural Resources, Financial Services and Real Estate and Infrastructure. www.osborneclarke.com Pinsent Masons Pinsent Masons is a full service international law firm and ranks amongst the top 75 global law firms. We provide legal services to a wide variety of clients across the sectors of energy and natural resources, infrastructure, financial services, advanced manufacturing and technology and core industries and markets. www.pinsentmasons.com/graduate RateMyPlacement RateMyPlacement.co.uk is the UK’s leading undergraduate resource to help students find their dream placement or internship. Read over 16,000 reviews from students just like you and browse through hundreds of job opportunities. Check out our expert advice, industry zones and videos. www.ratemyplacement.co.uk RPC RPC is a forward thinking commercial law firm with a wide-ranging practice, some of the leading lawyers in their fields and great clients. From our offices in the UK and Asia, we offer a depth of knowledge and creativity that few firms can rival and are regularly praised in the leading directories for the quality of our training programmes. www.rpc.co.uk/manifesto Shearman & Sterling LLP Shearman & Sterling LLP is recognised as one of the leading international corporate and commercial law firms in London. Our ability to offer integrated English and US legal advice across a broad range of practices has made us one of the most successful US-originated firms in the UK market. Globally we have approximately 900 attorneys, including over 120 in our London office. ukgraduates.shearman.com
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