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21 LawCareers.Net
6 AllAboutLaw.co.uk
21 Lawyer 2B
6 Allen & Overy
21 Linklaters LLP
7 Anthony Collins Solicitors
22 Macfarlanes LLP
7 Ashurst
22 Mayer Brown International LLP
7 Baker & McKenzie
22 Mills & Reeve LLP
8 BARBRI International
23 Mishcon de Reya LLP
8 Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP
23 Morgan Lewis & Bockius
8 Bird & Bird
23 Nabarro LLP
9 Bond Dickinson
24 Norton Rose Fulbright
9 Bristows LLP
24 Nottingham Law School
9 Browne Jacobson LLP
24 Olswang LLP
10 Burges Salmon
25 Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe (Europe) LLP
10 CILEx Law School
25 Pinsent Masons
10 Clifford Chance
25 PwC
11 Clyde & Co LLP
26 Reed Smith
11 CMS
26 RPC
11 Cooley (UK) LLP
26 Shoosmiths
12 Covington & Burling
27 Sidley Austin LLP
12 De Montfort University
27 Simmons & Simmons
12 Dentons
27 Slaughter and May
13 DLA Piper UK LLP
28 Squire Patton Boggs
13 DWF LLP
28 Stephenson Harwood
13 Eversheds LLP
28 Stevens & Bolton LLP
14 Farrer & Co LLP
29 Taylor Wessing
14 Fieldfisher
29 The City Law School
14 Freeths LLP
29 The University of Law
15 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
30 The Lex 100
15 Gateley Plc
30 TLT LLP
15 Geldards LLP
30 Travers Smith LLP
16 Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
31 Watson Farley & Williams LLP
16 Government Legal Service (GLS)
31 Weil, Gotshal & Manges
16 Gowling WLG
31 White & Case
17 Harrison Clark Rickerbys
32 Wilkin Chapman LLP
17 Herbert Smith Freehills
32 Withers LLP
17 Higgs & Sons 18 Hill Dickinson LLP 18 Hogan Lovells 18 Holman Fenwick Willan LLP 19 Ince & Co 19 Irwin Mitchell LLP 19 Jones Day 20 King & Wood Mallesons 20 Kirkland & Ellis International LLP 20 Latham & Watkins
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28 Olswang LLP
64 Allen & Overy
32 Geldards LLP
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60 RPC
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36 Higgs & Sons
59 Sidley Austin LLP
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11 Hill Dickinson LLP
73 Simmons & Simmons
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49 Slaughter and May
5 Browne Jacobson LLP
44 Holman Fenwick Willan LLP
31 Squire Patton Boggs
17 Burges Salmon
4 Ince & Co
41 Stephenson Harwood
13 Chambers Directory
78 Irwin Mitchell LLP
25 Stevens & Bolton LLP
63 CILEx Law School
56 Jones Day
42 Taylor Wessing
47 Clifford Chance
40 King & Wood Mallesons
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37 Clyde & Co LLP
38 Kirkland & Ellis International LLP
46 The University of Law
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26 Latham & Watkins
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18 Linklaters LLP
76 Watson Farley & Williams LLP
39 Dentons
72 Macfarlanes LLP
79 Weil, Gotshal & Manges
80 DLA Piper UK LLP
75 Mayer Brown International LLP
20 White & Case
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51 Mills & Reeve LLP
27 Wilkin Chapman LLP
35 Eversheds LLP
24 Mishcon de Reya LLP
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2 Farrer & Co LLP
9 Morgan Lewis & Bockius
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70 Nabarro LLP
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At Addleshaw Goddard we are more than just exceptional lawyers. We attract smart and energetic people who are committed to our clients’ success and believe in team-work and professionalism combined with a personal touch. A real meeting of minds. It’s one of the reasons why we’re sure you’ll enjoy working with us. As a Trainee, you’ll work on everything from multimillion pound banking deals and cross-border mergers and acquisitions to the most high profile fraud cases, complex technology contracts, employment disputes and transformational construction assignments. Because we understand that our success is intrinsically linked
to yours, you can expect constant support to make sure you realise your potential.
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AllAboutLaw.co.uk is the leading online resource for aspiring solicitors. AllAboutLaw.co.uk provide students with careers and employability advice, including training contract and vacation scheme application tips, guidance on postgraduate study and recommendations on increasing commercial awareness.
features, allowing students to keep abreast of the most important developments that affect the legal world.
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AllAboutLaw.co.uk give students access to an extensive list of opportunities at the top law firms in the UK. They also conduct in-depth interviews with current trainee solicitors and graduate recruiters and cover the latest industry news and
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Allen & Overy is a leading international law firm with approximately 5,000 employees in 45 offices across 32 countries worldwide. We are renowned for the high quality of our corporate, banking and international capital markets advice, as well as our major strengths in areas such as litigation and dispute resolution, employment and benefits and tax and real estate. Our lawyers are involved in many of the most influential commercial ventures and are known for providing clients with pioneering solutions to the toughest legal challenges. They were ranked in Band 1 & 2 in over 500 categories by the Chambers & Partners directory, the highest of the global elite group of
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international law firms. This, above all, explains why Allen & Overy remains a leader in its field.
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We are a leading practice amongst values-based organisations. Using our in-depth knowledge of the sectors we work in, we are committed to transforming communities, supporting individuals and influencing wider public debate. In our seven key sectors we work alongside individuals, businesses and third-sector organisations to deliver social justice, recognising the need for better outcomes from the reduced funding available. At Anthony Collins Solicitors we don’t just look for technical expertise. We want people who bring a wider skill set to our firm. Emotional intelligence
and a desire to collaborate are key qualities that we look for.
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What makes ACS distinctive beyond simply being a sector specialist law firm is our people and the values we share – our passion and belief is aligned with our commitment to transforming communities and supporting individuals. We’re extremely proud of the calibre of lawyers we attract, people who are inspired by our values and who are motivated by our vision, working with our clients to positively influence the society and communities we are building together.
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With 25 offices in 15 countries, Ashurst is a leading international law firm with world class capability and a prestigious global client base. Our in-depth understanding of our clients and commitment to providing exceptional standards of service has seen us become a trusted adviser to local and global corporates, financial institutions and governments on all areas of commercial law. Our people are our greatest asset and we bring together lawyers of the highest calibre with the technical knowledge, industry experience and regional know-how to provide the incisive advice clients need. At Ashurst you will work as part of a team operating in a high performance culture.
Vacation schemes application dates: • Winter scheme 1 September 2016 – 6 November 2016
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• First year focus scheme (spring) 1 September 2016 – 8 January 2017 • Summer scheme 1 September 2016 – 8 January 2017 Training contracts: Applications for training contracts commencing in September 2019 and March 2020 will open on 1 October 2016 – December 2016, and 1 May 2017 – 31 July 2017. We are recruiting 45 trainees per year.
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Baker & McKenzie is a leading global law firm based in over 75 locations in nearly 50 countries. With a presence in nearly all of the world’s leading financial and commercial centres, our strategy is to provide the best combination of local legal and commercial knowledge, international expertise and resources. Our trainee solicitors are a vital part of that strategy, exposed to the international scope of the firm from the moment they start. There is also the possibility of an overseas secondment, with recent secondees spending time in San Francisco, Brussels, Moscow, Johannesburg and Hong Kong.
London is home to the firm’s largest office where Baker & McKenzie has been well established since its opening in 1961. With more than 400 legal professionals, we have a substantial presence in the legal and business community.
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As a full service office, we deliver high-quality local solutions across a broad range of practices and offer global advice in conjunction with our international offices. Our client base consists primarily of venture capital funds, investment banks, technology powerhouses and household name brands. And, as a firm with a very strong international client base, we have considerable expertise in acting on, and coordinating, complex cross-border transactions and disputes.
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BARBRI is the market-leading provider of the Bar Review Programme that prepares law graduates and lawyers to sit the US State Bar Examinations. If you are interested in a career in international law, becoming a US Attorney is a step in the right direction. We offer classroom based courses in the UK and Ireland and on-line study which can be completed anywhere in the world. Innovative testing and learning technologies combined with years of experience training non-US lawyers and law graduates make BARBRI International the best partner when you decide to enhance your career by becoming a US attorney we are
part of BARBRI in the US which has been at the top of the Bar Review business for 45 years. BARBRI International can greatly enhance your marketability in a competitive legal market at home and abroad by helping you obtain this outstanding international legal qualification and gives you the capability and expertise to work with international clients, deal with cross-border transactions, and understand the differences between US and international law.
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Berwin Leighton Paisner is an award-winning, international law firm. Clients, including over 50 Global Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 companies, rely on our expertise in 70 legal disciplines and have worked with us in 130 countries. Those clients tell us that our firm is distinguished by exceptional personal commitment and a strong focus on helping them to achieve a commercial advantage. As a result, we have a 92% loyalty rate among major clients. Furthermore, our distinctive approach has seen BLP receive eight Law Firm of the Year awards since 2004 and, in 2015, named a top-five ‘legal game changer of the last decade’ by the Financial Times.
In addition to talented individuals with brilliant minds and bright attitudes, we are looking for people who can take complex, often pressurised, commercial situations in their stride. We run five vacation schemes each year and have 40 – 45 training contract vacancies per annum.
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Bird & Bird is an international law firm, with a rare and invaluable grasp of strategic commercial issues. We work for organisations based on or being transformed by technology or the digital world. We specialise in a range of sectors, including aviation and defence, technology and communications, financial services, life sciences and healthcare, media, entertainment and sport, energy and utilities, retail and consumer and the automotive industry. At Bird & Bird, the flavour is definitely international – 75% of our major clients will deal with more
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than one of our 28 offices across Europe, the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region. We offer 18 training contracts each year. Becoming a trainee at Bird & Bird is the first step to fulfilling your potential and shaping your longterm career. You’ll have real responsibility from day one – working for exciting clients across a range of sectors in a number of practice areas. During your two-year training contract you will spend six months in four of the following areas: aviation, banking, commercial, corporate, dispute resolution, employment, intellectual property, real estate, sport and tax.
We have Easter and summer vacation schemes via which we recruit the majority of our trainees. Pop by our stand to find out more! londongraduates.twobirds.com
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Bond Dickinson is a leading UK law firm providing a comprehensive legal service to clients across a wide range of sectors including chemicals and manufacturing, energy and natural resources, financial institutions, insurance, real estate, retail and consumer goods, transport and infrastructure, and private wealth.
and Southampton. We’re on the ground in key financial centres and industry locations. We also have strategic partnerships with German firm, Redeker Sellner Dahs and U.S. firm Womble Carlyle.
Our clients range from FTSE 100 businesses to governmental organisations, privately managed businesses and wealthy individuals.
Trainees at Bond Dickinson will have an opportunity to spend six months in four business groups, gaining a real breadth of experience along the way.
We have a unique legal footprint across the UK with Seven office locations – Aberdeen, Bristol, Leeds, London, Newcastle, Plymouth,
The firm is looking for intellectually capable, motivated and enthusiastic individuals from any discipline. To be successful, you’ll understand
the need to provide practical, commercial advice to clients. You’ll share the firm’s commitment to self-development and teamwork and its desire to provide clients with services which match their highest expectations. Visit us online to find out more about the firm and access our online application form. www.bonddickinson.com
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Bristows is a medium-sized full service city law firm well known for the strength of its intellectual property practice. We handle the kind of work you might normally associate with only the very largest firms and have built up a client list that includes leading businesses from a variety of sectors including life sciences and TMT. As part of a select and high calibre intake, trainees work alongside our partners dealing directly with clients right from the start. There’s plenty of responsibility but this is matched by an extremely supportive and friendly culture. Each year we ask up to 10 graduates to join our team as trainee solicitors and are currently recruiting for our 2018 intake.
The firm places importance on having a diverse and inclusive environment and recruits trainees from all degree disciplines including STEM subjects.
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We are a full service national law firm with offices in Birmingham, Exeter, London, Manchester and Nottingham–- with an impressive client portfolio, including blue chip corporates, local and owner managed businesses, NHS trusts, major insurers, education and public sector organisations. We offer a comprehensive range of quality legal services, with expertise across a number of key private and public sector specialisms including retail, technology, financial services, education, health, local and central government, brands, international and insurance. We are looking for talented law and non-law graduates who are commercially minded and can
bring with them enthusiasm, tenacity, commitment and a passion for delivering exceptional client service combined with a flexible and friendly attitude. For more information about life as a trainee visit their blog at www.traineetalk.co.uk or follow them on Twitter at www.twitter.com/ brownejtrainees.
The application deadline for our 2019 training contract is 1 April 2017. www.brownejacobson.com
We run a two week vacation scheme in the summer, candidates are given the opportunity to undertake real work as well as learn more about the legal departments and the firm through interaction with its partners, lawyers and trainees. The application deadline for our 2017 summer vacation scheme is 1 February 2017.
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Burges Salmon is an independent UK law firm which delivers the best mix of advice, service and value. We pride ourselves on delivering an excellent standard of legal and business advice to our clients, which has led to many of our practice areas and sectors winning awards and recognition as best in class. Our national and international client base ranges from private individuals to government departments and FTSE 100 companies including The Crown Estate, Nationwide, Lloyds Banking Group, John Lewis, The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and FirstGroup.
We are looking to recruit 30 trainees to start in 2019. We will be offering winter, spring and summer vacation schemes that form part of the training contract selection process. We welcome direct training contract applications all year round.
Winter vacation scheme deadline – Friday 4 October
We welcome applications from penultimate and final year students from any degree discipline, graduates and those considering a change in career. We look for a minimum upper-second class degree and the relevant interpersonal skills to success as a commercial solicitor. All schemes are open to all eligible candidates.
Direct training contract application deadline – Monday 31 July (applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis)
Spring / summer vacation scheme deadline – Thursday 12 January
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CILEx Law School offers GDL and LL.B graduates real alternatives for a career in law. For example, to qualify as a chartered legal executive through the CILEx graduate fast-track diploma (GFTD) route costs approximately £3,000. To become a chartered legal executive you combine the GFTD with three years’ paralegal work experience. Chartered legal executives can be judges, advocates, partners and independent practitioners: the only limitation is your ambition. Enrolling with CILEx Law School means you’ll be joining thousands of others who have used our flexible distance learning courses to
become professionally qualified. You can be in full-time employment while studying, achieving professional qualification without the millstone of debt. Want to become a solicitor? The specially designed open learning GDL and LPC programmes in partnership with De Montfort University enable you to fit studying around your work or other commitments. Chartered legal executives are both exempt from the training contract and may claim partial exemption from De Montfort University’s open learning LPC.
CILEx Law School prides itself on being professional and the UK’s most accessible law school. As a not-for-profit law organisation we believe in treating students fairly, and you’ll notice the difference as soon as you enrol. Come and speak to us today. www.cilexlawschool.ac.uk
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Lawyers for a changing world Clifford Chance is one of the world’s foremost law firms, with more tier one ranked practice areas than any other firm. We are a Times Graduate Employer of Choice and a previous TargetJobs Graduate Employer of the Year. Because the challenges of modern business rarely fall within a single jurisdiction or practice area, we’re used to tackling problems in international, multi-disciplinary teams. A career with Clifford Chance means the opportunity to develop your talents to their utmost potential in a refreshing and stimulating
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environment. One where your unique talents will have the space to shine, develop and make a real impact.
www.cliffordchancegraduates.com
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Clyde & Co is a dynamic, rapidly expanding global law firm focused on providing a complete legal service to clients in our core sectors. With over 1,800 lawyers operating from 45 offices and associated offices in six continents, we advise corporates, financial institutions, private individuals, and governments across a wide range of contentious and transactional matters. With a strong emerging markets focus, the firm has doubled in size twice in the last 10 years and is one of the fastest growing law firms in the world with ambitious plans for further growth.
Dubai offices. Our two week schemes offer the opportunity to get a true insight into life at Clyde & Co.
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We are currently accepting applications for our 2017 vacation schemes and 2019 training contract. Applications close on 31 December 2016 and 31 July 2017 respectively.
We offer approximately 80 vacation scheme placements across our London, Manchester and
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CMS is a global, full service law firm with 60 plus offices in over 30 countries worldwide. We are the second most global law firm and the largest in Europe, headquartered in the City of London in the UK with training locations also in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Bristol. If you’re thinking about a career in law, then it’s time to get a taste for the modern law firm joining one of the CMS graduate programmes designed for students across all year groups. Opportunities abound for top quality training, global secondments and to work with sector specialists so that your career can thrive in our global elite law firm.
Our opportunities:
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• CMS First Steps - application deadline 31 December 2016 • CMS Academy Programme - application deadline 15 January 2017 • CMS Training Contract - application deadline 30 June 2017 For more information visit our graduate website.
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Cooley are lawyers for innovators. We have preeminent technology, life sciences, fund formation and venture capital practices and nearly 900 lawyers across 12 offices in the US, China and Europe. Cooley lawyers solve complex legal issues for entrepreneurs, investors, financial institutions and established companies. Cooley clients include Facebook, eBay, LinkedIn, Bluetooth and Google. We offer four trainee positions in one intake per year. Our smaller teams lead to high levels of responsibility and client contact. You will be able to make a substantial contribution to the matters you work on. Our two summer programmes are the main route to successfully obtaining a period
of recognised training with the firm. We have eight places available and the programmes are designed to give you a great insight into some of the exciting work we do, as well as provide you the chance to experience the culture of the firm.
www.cooley.com/uktrainee
To apply you will need to demonstrate academic excellence (minimum upper-second class degree), great commercial awareness, an understanding of teamwork and the ability to take on responsibility. You should have impressive communication and interpersonal skills developed from a variety of situations. Interesting achievements and making the most of any work experience opportunities will help applicants stand-out.
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Covington & Burling LLP was founded in Washington D.C. nearly a century ago. Today, the firm has over 900 lawyers globally across offices in Beijing, Brussels, London, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Seoul, Shanghai, Silicon Valley and Washington DC. Covington’s London office was established over 25 years ago. At Covington, you will have an opportunity to work on cutting-edge deals for international and UK corporates such as Microsoft, Astra Zeneca and Facebook, Fortune 100 businesses and leading technology, life sciences and media companies. Most of the work has an international element and all our practice groups operate across borders. We aim to distinguish our trainee programme
by offering a genuine support network which includes assigning associate buddies and undertaking regular performance reviews. We have an excellent record of retaining trainees on qualification and we aim to recruit trainees who are interested in making a long term commitment to the firm. Additionally, we run two summer schemes each year. Participants will be given as much hands-on experience as possible, spending each of their two weeks in a different practice area. They will also get involved in a research project, participate in group activities and attend a series of presentations. We also organise a number of social events so that students can have some fun and get to know us.
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Since its formation in 1989, Leicester Institute of Legal Practice has provided for the training needs of those entering the legal profession. We are an experienced provider of first class legal education and training, offering the Legal Practice Course (LPC) and the Graduate Diploma in Law in full time and part time modes. The Institute offers students: • excellent careers provision, including a mentoring scheme and vacation placement schemes as well as individual careers advice and guidance
• opportunities to be involved in pro bono work • support from a friendly and caring staff team with recent practical experience and invaluable links with both commercial and traditional practices
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• the Law School’s integrated law library, an exclusive LPC library and computer resource room with full Internet access (including individual email account) and the use of online services such as Westlaw and Lexis Library
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Dentons is the world’s first polycentric global law firm. A top 20 firm on the Acritas 2015 Global Elite Brand Index, the firm is committed to challenging the status quo in delivering consistent and uncompromising quality and value in new and inventive ways. Driven to provide clients a competitive edge, and connected to the communities where its clients want to do business, Dentons knows that understanding local cultures is crucial to successfully completing a deal, resolving a dispute or solving a business challenge. Now the world’s largest law firm, Dentons’ global team builds agile, tailored solutions to meet the local, national and global needs of private and public clients of any size
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in more than 125 locations serving 50-plus countries. All our offices have an excellent reputation and training programme, who focus on high quality work for high quality clients. Our teams allow trainees to quickly become an integral part of the business and to be well supervised and supported during the training contract. If commercial law is your ambition, beginning your career with us will give you the fulfilment you’re looking for. You’ll be welcomed into a team internationally renowned for its expertise. We’ll help you develop your skills and knowledge in an open and supportive environment.
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DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers located in more than 30 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific, positioning us to help companies with their legal needs anywhere in the world. We became one of the largest business law firms in the world in 2005 through a merger of unprecedented scope in the legal sector. We were built to serve clients wherever in the world they do business – quickly, efficiently and with genuine knowledge of both local and international considerations. Whether our clients require seamless coordination across multiple jurisdictions or delivery in a single location, they
can count on us to deliver the right service and solutions.
by the end of the scheme, participants have a real feel for our work, clients and people.
In the UK, we provide full service legal advice from London and the major UK centres. These include Birmingham, Edinburgh, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester and Sheffield.
We also offer a number of open days and insight days. www.dlapipergraduates.co.uk
We offer approximately 130 placements across our UK offices and use these to recruit our trainees. Participants spend time with two different departments and are fully immersed into life at DLA Piper. They are given real work to develop their legal and wider workplace skills, as well as demonstrate their ability. The aim is that,
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In order to be outstanding, you must always be different and DWF knows that better than most. We were named ‘Legal Innovator of the Year’ at the 2015 Legal Business Awards in recognition of our innovative approach to operational management, client service delivery and people engagement and were also voted one of Europe’s 50 most innovative law firms by the Financial Times. After an impressive number of mergers and acquisitions, DWF is one of the UK’s top 20 law firms and employs nearly 2,500 people, including 270 partners and 1200 fee earners. The firm has offices across the UK and has recently expanded internationally.
The firm has core strengths in corporate and banking, real estate, litigation and insurance, and in-depth industry expertise across six chosen sectors including financial services, retail, food and hospitality, central and local government, energy and industrials, technology, and transport.
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DWF is focussed on delivering client service excellence to all of its clients which include major household names and FTSE-listed companies such as Virgin Trains, adidas, Whitbread, De Ver Group, Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland. DWF has invested significantly in technology and its client care programmes in order to better service its clients across the UK and internationally.
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Eversheds is one of the world’s largest fullservice law firms operating as one team, across Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Recognised as the leading innovators in the legal sector, we provide new legal and business solutions to meet the needs of our clients. Eversheds is about consistently delivering great service whenever our clients need it.
www.eversheds.com
Our people share a distinctive culture which has deep client relationships at its core. Whether providing advice which is complex or straightforward, multi-national or local, an attitude of delivering only the very best underscores everything we do.
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Farrer & Co is a highly-regarded mid-sized London law firm with 396 lawyers and staff, some 73 of whom are partners. We provide a full service to our clients as well as having outstanding expertise in a number of niche sectors. Clients range from national institutions, museums, galleries, schools and universities to high profile individuals and companies such as banks and media organisations. Practice areas include: charity and community, commercial property, corporate, disputes, employment, family, financial services, heritage, intellectual property and commercial, international private client, media disputes, residential property, rural property, sponsorship, sport and tax.
The training programme involves each trainee in the widest range of cases, clients and issues possible in a single law firm, taking full advantage of the wide range of practice areas by offering six seats, rather than the more usual four. This provides a broad foundation of knowledge and experience and the opportunity to make an informed choice about the area of law in which to specialize. A high degree of involvement is encouraged under the direct supervision of associates and partners.
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Fieldfisher is a European law firm with market leading practices in many of the world’s most dynamic sectors. We are an approachable, forward-thinking organisation with a particular focus on technology, finance and financial services and energy and natural resources among other sectors. Our growing European network of offices supports an international client base alongside our Silicon Valley and Shanghai teams. Among our clients we count social media sites and high street coffee chains as well as life sciences and medical devices companies, energy suppliers, financial institutions and government departments.
Clients choose to work with us because we deliver commercial, pragmatic and innovative solutions through our exceptional legal expertise and experience, on time and on budget.
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We have more than 500 lawyers spread over 13 locations, all providing highly commercial advice based on an in-depth understanding of our clients’ needs. We operate across our offices in Brussels, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Paris, London, Munich, Manchester, Rome, Milan, Venice, Turin, Silicon Valley and Shanghai.
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Freeths LLP is one of the UK’s leading national law firms, operating from offices in Birmingham, Derby, Leeds, Leicester, London, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Sheffield, Stoke on Trent, Oxford and Nottingham. Whilst we are a heavyweight commercial firm serving a wide variety of corporate and institutional clients, there is also a strong commitment to a broad range of legal services, which includes a substantial private client element. This enables us to give a breadth of experience in training. We recruit 12–14 trainees each year. We work in close partnership with clients, providing positive, practical solutions and clear, comprehensive advice. We are committed to
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continuous improvement and our increasing success as a business is built on achieving success for our clients. For the third year running, Freeths LLP has been listed in the Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For, which recognises that we put people at the centre of our business.
www.freeths.co.uk
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Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer advises some of the world’s biggest companies on how to grow, strengthen and defend their businesses. If you’re keen to pursue a career in commercial law, we can offer you some of the best and most interesting work there is. Because we support clients wherever in the world they operate, you’ll play a part in delivering a consistent, high-quality service across the globe.
You’ll also get the chance to spend time on secondment to a client or to one of our offices in the US, Asia or Europe.
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It doesn’t matter what your background is, or the degree you studied. What does matter is that you have intellectual talent, excellent written and spoken English, and that you work well with other people.
Flexibility is key in our training contract. If you train with us, you can try up to eight areas of law. That’s twice as many as most law firms.
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Gateley Plc recently became the first UK commercial law company to float on the London Stock Exchange. We are a full service national law company that promotes the commercial interests of companies, individuals and organisations. We offer solutions-driven, flexible and commercial legal advice based on an integrated and partnerled service. We are committed to the communities in which we live and work and actively support the ability of our teams to fulfil their potential.
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Geldards is a firm passionate about recruiting, retaining and developing talented people. Our investment in training demonstrates this and the financial packages and additional benefits we offer means that everyone shares in the firm’s success. The quality and size of our client base, means that we can offer interesting and varied work. It is rewarding to watch our employees develop their skills and knowledge and progress their careers with us. We are particularly interested in people who relish responsibility and thrive on a challenge. We realise the importance of training and we are proud of our Investors In People accreditation. We
are committed to the training and development of all our staff and we provide an environment in which enhancing your skills and performance is always encouraged.
above all open and friendly and we place great emphasis on working together. www.geldards.com
We believe our clients enjoy working with us because we provide sound pragmatic jargon-free legal advice and we place their individual and business needs as a priority. We employ people who thrive on building and maintaining successful relationships, who like to be challenged and who bring a straightforward approach. However, we actively encourage individuality and are proud of the fact that everyone working here has something different to offer. Our approach is
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Gibson Dunn is one of the world’s top international law firms. We work on a fully integrated basis with our 19 offices around the world, providing legal advice on a wide range of issues to internationally-listed companies, large private companies and many other organisations with international operations and ambitions. Our London office, offers in-depth advice on all aspects of corporate work, including mergers and acquisitions, dispute resolution and international arbitration, private equity, commercial real estate, real estate private equity, finance, business restructuring and re-organisation, project finance,
capital markets and taxation, competition and labour and employment. We are looking for exceptional individuals who are capable of taking the initiative and fulfilling our clients’ needs, who have strong interpersonal skills and can rise to the challenge of working directly with partners within small, focused teams and having client contact early in their careers.
scheme deadline is 10 February 2017 (we review applications on a rolling basis and so early application is advised). www.gibsondunn.com
We aim to recruit most of our trainees from our three week summer vacation scheme and encourage applicants interested in training with us to apply to our scheme. Our summer vacation
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We have one client: the British Government. Whether the government is creating new legislation, procuring goods and services, employing people or defending its decisions in court, it needs significant levels of legal advice. To carry out this work, the government needs its own lawyers who understand its business. GLS lawyers advise ministers and officials on their powers and responsibilities to litigate on their behalf and ensure that official decisions comply with the law. Our lawyers’ work will be determined by the business in which their departments are engaged
but will typically involve the widest possible range of public and private law matters. These range across issues of national and international significance and across public and private law, embracing advisory and legislative work, litigation and prosecution and a wealth of specialist areas.
www.gov.uk/gls
The GLS legal trainee scheme offers you the chance to conduct your training contract or pupillage in a government department. The broad structure of a GLS training contract or pupillage is similar to that elsewhere. The nature of the work you will undertake during the training period and the level of responsibility you will be given is beyond comparison.
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Gowling WLG is an international law firm created by the combination of Gowlings, a leading Canadian law firm, and Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co (WLG), a leading UK-based international law firm. With more than 1,400 legal professionals in 18 cities across the UK, Canada, Continental Europe, the Middle East and Asia, Gowling WLG provides clients with top-tier legal advice at home and abroad in a range of areas – from complex cross-border transactions and intellectual property matters to high-stakes litigation and disputes.
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Our clients have access to in-depth expertise and experience in key global sectors including advanced manufacturing, energy, financial services, infrastructure, life sciences, natural resources, real estate and tech. We pair this specific industry knowledge with renowned service area expertise to meet each client’s unique needs. We see the world through our clients’ eyes, and collaborate across countries, offices, service areas and sectors to help them succeed, no matter how challenging the circumstances. Our culture is, above all, about people and teams,
based on our belief in the power of relationships in delivering tangible business results. www.trainees.gowlingwlg.com
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Harrison Clark Rickerbys is a law firm of circa 400 staff with one mission: for our solicitors to provide exceptional legal services and client care. Harrison Clark Rickerbys is the merger of long established law firms, Harrison Clark and Rickerbys. Both firms are listed as First Tier in the prestigious legal directories Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners and both are Lexcel accredited, the Law Society’s rating for excellence in client care and practice management. We offer a considerable wealth and depth of talent, with many of our staff having been drawn from previous careers in leading city firms in London, Birmingham and Bristol.
Harrison Clark Rickerbys offices can be found in Worcester, Cheltenham, Birmingham, Thames Valley, Hereford and Wye Valley and as a trainee you will have the opportunity to carry out a seat at any of these offices.
www.hcrlaw.com
We want to recruit the best possible trainees and, in turn, help them develop and realise their true potential – hopefully undertaking a long and successful career with us! With this in mind we have adopted a two pronged recruitment method as detailed on our website.
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Takeovers and mergers. Arbitration and litigation. We’ve got it all. And because we’re one of the world’s leading law firms, we also work with some of the biggest international organisations on some of their most ambitious projects. Thanks to the quality of our international network, we’re able to offer our clients both domestic and cross-border services, which means you get the chance to work in a truly global way.
proud to be a full-service firm and we’re proud to be able to do more for our clients.
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Herbert Smith Freehills is a place where you won’t just experience everything, you’ll be a part of it. So if you’ve got the drive and ambition to become a brilliant lawyer, we’d like to hear from you
Our work is incredibly varied. We provide top quality tailored legal advice to major corporations, governments and financial institutions as well as different types of commercial organisations. We’re
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Higgs & Sons is different from the typical law firm. We successfully combine traditional values with an innovative approach to legal problems, which has helped to attract an impressive client base whilst staying true to our local community. One of the largest, most experienced and respected law firms in the West Midlands, we are well recognised in the Legal 500 and Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession. Despite our continuing growth, we remain committed to providing the personal service our clients deserve and expect. Our size is one of our greatest assets, we are large enough to provide the range of skills clients need yet small enough to be approachable.
The firm offers a first class structured training programme, fully supervised, based on experience in at least four major disciplines with regular assessments. Opportunity for career progression is also clear as more than half of our partners trained with the firm. Our trainee solicitor programme spans some of the following areas:
resolution, matrimonial/family, motoring, private criminal and regulatory. We are looking to offer 4–6 training contracts for September 2019. Application deadline is 31 July 2017. www.higgsandsons.co.uk
• Business clients – corporate and commercial, insolvency, employment law, commercial litigation and commercial property; • Private clients – wills, probate, trusts and tax, employment law, personal injury, ULR and clinical negligence, conveyancing, dispute
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Hill Dickinson LLP is an award-winning commercial law firm with more than 1,150 people, including 190 partners and legal directors. From offices in the UK, mainland Europe and Asia, the firm delivers advice and strategic guidance spanning the full legal spectrum. The firm acts as a trusted adviser to businesses, organisations and individuals across the globe and from a wide range of market sectors, advising on noncontentious advisory and transactional work through to all forms of commercial litigation and arbitration. Hill Dickinson prides itself on fostering the strongest client relationships and adding value through innovation.
The firm’s clients include multinational companies, major corporations, UK PLC's, insurance companies, UK and foreign banks and financial institutions, public sector organisations, private individuals and professional bodies.
Africa and Australasia, ensuring a truly global reach.
Hill Dickinson’s growing network of international offices reflects the global nature of its work, specifically in the marine, trade and energy markets through its offices in Piraeus, Singapore and Hong Kong, and the Monaco office is focused on the needs of its prestigious yacht and superyacht client base. The firm also has a number of ‘best friend’ relationships in many jurisdictions including Europe, the Middle East,
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Hogan Lovells is a top global law firm, with over 2,500 lawyers working in over 45 offices across Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and North America. Our unique balance of ambition and approachability attracts prestigious clients and creates a working culture where the ambition of our trainee solicitors is supported to ensure their success. Our global diversity and wide range of practice areas gives us a strong reputation for corporate, finance, dispute resolution, government regulatory and intellectual property.
client or international secondments. We also offer up to 90 places over five highly regarded vacation schemes. These schemes provide first and penultimate year law students as well as graduate and final year law and non-law students invaluable insight into life and work inside a global legal practice. We also offer three open days to first year students.
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Applications open from 1 October 2016. For further information about the opportunities we offer and closing dates for applications, please visit our website.
Our two-year training contract is split into four six-month periods of work experience, known as ‘seats’, including the opportunity to apply for
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We are an international law firm with over 450 lawyers worldwide and a market-leading reputation for advising businesses operating in a number of industry sectors, including aviation, commodities, construction, energy, financial institutions, insurance, mining, ports and terminals, shipping, space, yachts and travel, cruise and leisure, all of which are integral to the way international commerce works. Our clients value the in-depth knowledge this focus brings and as a result our lawyers work on some of the most complex, high-value, international matters in those sectors. We offer our trainees an environment where they will be
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working alongside some of the most respected and talented lawyers in their field. Every year we recruit only a small number of trainees – 15 per year split across a September and March intake. This enables us to give every trainee our full attention, and means that your individual contribution makes a difference. A training contract at HFW consists of four six month seats – typically three contentious seats and one transactional seat, with at least one seat spent outside of London in an international office. Trainees are involved in a combination of workshops, departmental know-how sessions, mentoring by experienced lawyers and on-the-
job training. Overall, we aim to provide you with a dynamic, supportive and varied environment in which you are challenged to become the best lawyer you can be www.hfw.com/Home
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Ince & Co is an international commercial law firm. The majority of our work is for organisations in five global sectors: aviation, energy, insurance, international trade and shipping. Our clients own, build, manage, finance, lease or insure the high value, often mobile assets that play a fundamental part in today’s competitive global markets. We have offices in Beijing, Cologne, Dubai, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Le Havre, London, Monaco, Paris, Piraeus, Shanghai and Singapore. With over a hundred partners and over 180 lawyers globally, we provide advice to clients in the following areas of:
• aviation • business and finance • commercial disputes • energy • insurance and reinsurance • international trade and commodities • shipping You’ll find that we see things differently here. We regard our trainees as future solicitors and potential partners. Our training programme is different too. With us you’ll get involved in real
legal work from day one, and the cases you assist on stay with you throughout your training period and sometimes beyond. We like to see things from your point of view. So we’ll support you to achieve your individual goals. We’ll enable you to grow your experience and confidence across a range of specialisms. And we’ll see you realise your ambition to become a first class lawyer. www.incelaw.com
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We are one of the leading personal injury and medical negligence litigation practices in the country and also handle a comprehensive range of private client work including family law, wills, court of protection and public law. In recent years we have significantly expanded our commercial services to include corporate, litigation, real estate, employment and banking and finance with the offering continuing to grow rapidly. We are developing a cutting-edge commercial service challenging the traditional city and national firms.
www.irwinmitchell.com/graduates
We are diverse in terms of the people we employ and the work we do. We think this alone makes for a more interesting and enjoyable place to work and we think you’ll agree.
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Jones Day is a truly global law firm – probably the most integrated in the world – with 2,500 lawyers across 44 locations and 19 jurisdictions. Our unique, non-rotational training system provides flexibility and early responsibility.
departments, with any partner or team, throughout their two year training period. Because they do not move department every six months, they don’t miss the end of deals or trials they have worked on.
In London, our trainees work on truly global transactions, thrive on early responsibility, and develop as lawyers fast. We recruit to retain. Nearly half our London partners trained with the firm.
Vacancies: 72 placement scheme places and 20 training contracts (September 2019).
The Jones Day Way of training is different to the traditional “seat” system operated by most city of London firms. Trainees share their own office with another trainee and undertake work from all
Apply online from 1 September with a cover letter and CV through our website. www.jonesdaylondon.com
Jones Day’s two-week winter, spring or summer placement schemes, from which we expect to recruit nearly all our September 2019 trainee starters, will give you an honest insight into our training contracts. They will show you how we work in practice and give you a taste of what it’s like to be a trainee at Jones Day.
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King & Wood Mallesons is a new breed of law firm combining local depth with a global platform. Offering a different perspective to commercial thinking and the client experience, 2,700 lawyers across more than 30 international offices are working with clients every day to understand local challenges and navigate through regional complexity. With access to a global platform, we are providing commercial solutions and transforming the way legal services are delivered. As the only firm in the world able to practise PRC, Hong Kong, Australian, English, US and a significant range of European and Middle Eastern laws, we are opening doors and helping businesses to make smart choices to shape
their future. Our ability to connect emerging opportunities, with market leading capability, is pushing the frontiers of what can be achieved for our clients. We advise clients on the full spectrum of commercial, financial and specialist legal services, with a principle focus on: antitrust and regulatory, banking and finance, corporate mergers and acquisitions and securities, dispute resolution and litigation, projects (energy and resources), funds/private equity, real estate and tax.
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Kirkland & Ellis International LLP is a 1,700-attorney law firm representing global clients in offices around the world. The firm’s London office has been the hub of European operations since 1994. Here, approximately 160 lawyers offer detailed expertise to a wide range of UK and international clients. Kirkland is ranked in the top 5 of the Global 100 (Legal Business 2016) Although we are renowned for our private equity work in London, we are also active in restructurings, capital markets, private funds, debt finance, taxation, regulatory, international arbitration and litigation, technology and intellectual property transactions and competition
law and our client list is more than a match for many larger City firms.
Applications will close on 13 January 2017. Vacation scheme students are paid £500pw.
At Kirkland & Ellis we keep our trainee intake small giving you the chance to shine. We hire 10 trainees each year and provide them with high quality work from day one. You will be treated as a lawyer from the start and be given every opportunity for success. Trainees at Kirkland & Ellis undertake four six-month placements, one of which will be a compulsory corporate seat. Trainees can also apply to spend six months in an international office.
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We recruit 20 vacation scheme students per year, with applications opening in October 2016.
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Latham & Watkins is one of the few truly global law firms, with internationally recognised practices in offices across Europe, the US, the Middle East and Asia. It’s an exciting time to be joining our London office, where we have ambitious plans to continue growing our practice. Our teams of sharp and intelligent people are smaller than those in many large UK law firms. So we’re looking for energetic people who are ready to make an important contribution almost immediately in our growing London office — people who will relish playing a key role in international projects and working alongside fellow lawyers from our offices worldwide.
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Working at Latham & Watkins offers the best of both worlds. You’ll rapidly gain a higher level of responsibility and enjoy significantly more partner and client interaction than at other leading law firms. If this lively yet demanding environment is for you, we look forward to hearing from you.
www.lw.com/londongraduates
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Successfully launching a legal career involves acquiring and acting upon high-quality information. LawCareers.Net (online) and The Training Contract & Pupillage Handbook (print) are comprehensive, independent and authoritative resources that cover every aspect of becoming a lawyer, including details of over 1,000 employers. A 2016 survey saw eight out of 10 new lawyers reporting that they had used one or both of these guides.
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Lawyer2B is the must-read magazine for anyone interested in pursuing a career in law. It is packed full of lively and compelling content including news, analysis, jobs and features on all the major developments in the legal sector, as well as unbiased advice on breaking into the profession. Pick up your free copy from our stand at the fair – and if you’ve got questions about a career in law that you don’t feel comfortable asking the other exhibitors, come and ask us!
the latest deals news, gossip and jobs. Sign up at our stand.
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Oh, and get your phone out and follow us on Twitter and Instagram @lawyer2bmag and on Facebook, search for Lawyer 2B.
Our website lawyer2b.com is a one-stop shop for anyone wishing to pursue a career in law, and by registering to our free weekly and fortnightly email news services you can keep up-to-date with all
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Linklaters is the only firm to have market-leading teams across the globe covering a full range of practice areas. This, combined with the breadth of our client base (including leading financial institutions, governments and high-profile companies), sets us apart from our competitors. Our lawyers work on the most high-profile and complex work and are recognised as being leaders in their areas of practice.
full potential through a career in commercial law. In return, we offer a wealth of opportunity, entrepreneurial freedom and incredible rewards.
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Linklaters helps you achieve your ambition by providing an outstanding environment in which to succeed – this is the same for law and non-law graduates.
Each year, we offer around 110 training contracts to people from a range of subject disciplines and backgrounds who are talented, motivated and expect a lot from themselves. What they all have in common is a desire to achieve their
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Macfarlanes is a leading City law firm with a straightforward, independently-minded approach. We bring smart, thoughtful solutions to the complex legal challenges faced by our clients around the world. We are recognised for the quality of our work and people, not just in dealing with the full range of corporate and commercial matters, but in advising our clients on their private affairs. Clients trust Macfarlanes’ judgement and the firm is in a unique position to advise on their most complex matters, whilst at the same time remaining smaller than its competitors.
In short, we have a formidable and unique combination of expertise and culture; and we rely on remarkable individuals to shape the firm for the future.
www.macfarlanes.com
All applications open 1 November 2016. To apply please go to our website. Closing dates: • Training contract applications: 31 July 2017 • Vacation scheme applications: 31 January 2017 • Insight day applications: 28 February 2017
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If you train and practise at Mayer Brown, you’ll be advising companies at the heart of the world economy: leading investment banks, insurance companies, property companies, major corporates, energy companies, hedge funds, and just about every major business in between. Mayer Brown are noted for commitment to client service and the ability to assist clients with their most complex and demanding legal and business challenges worldwide.
www.mayerbrowngraduates.com
Trainees are given high levels of responsibility, case management and client contact from an early stage. The firm also has extensive support in place throughout the training contract in the form of senior-level support and continuous appraisals.
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Mills & Reeve is a major UK law firm renowned for its outstanding service to national and international clients, for its collaborative culture and for its deep sector expertise. The firm has a strong sector focus with expertise in: banking, charities, commercial, corporate, education, family, food and agribusiness, health, insurance, private wealth, real estate investment, sport and technology. Our commercial clients include global and UK based businesses, FTSE and AIM listed organisations, private companies and start-ups. Other clients include businesses from PLCs to start-ups, high net worth individuals and
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landowners, more than 120 universities, colleges and education bodies and over 100 healthcare organisations.
Vacation work: Applications for two-week paid summer placements to be received by 31 January 2017.
The firm has been named for a record 13th year running as one of the 100 Best Companies to Work For in The Sunday Times’ annual survey. We have offices in Birmingham, Cambridge, Leeds, London, Manchester and Norwich. We require a minimum upper-second class in any discipline.
Training contracts: 21 per year. Applications should be submitted by 31 July 2017 for contracts commencing September 2019
Financial assistance: The firm pays the full cost of the GDL and LPC fees. Maintenance grants are paid during both the GDL and LPC courses.
www.mills-reeve.com
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Mishcon de Reya LLP is a law firm with offices in London and New York. Founded by Victor Mishcon in a one-room office in Brixton in 1937, it now employs more than 700 people, with over 400 lawyers offering a wide range of legal services to companies and individuals. Its international footprint extends far beyond its offices in London and New York with approximately two thirds of its revenue sourced from outside of the UK. Mishcon de Reya has grown rapidly in recent years, showing more than 100% revenue growth since 2010. Last year, the firm moved into a purpose designed building on Kingsway, enabling
all fee-earners to be under the same roof for the first time in some years. The firm has also recently converted to both an alternative business structure and LLP.
www.mishcon.com
Mishcon de Reya prides itself not only on the diverse range of legal services that it offers as a practice, but also on the diverse range of people who provide those services. The central role played by the academy, the firm’s in-house place of learning, development and new thinking, the active and innovative social impact strategy and various diversity initiatives are reflected in its top 20 place in the Sunday Times ‘Best Companies to Work For’ list of 2016.
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The firm with 29 offices across North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East, provides comprehensive corporate, transactional, regulatory and litigation services to clients of all sizes across all major industries. The firm’s regulatory and industry focused practices help clients address legal, government and policy challenges. Founded in 1873, Morgan Lewis comprises more than 2,000 legal professionals. An international firm, we work seamlessly across continents, offering broad-based, precise counsel with focused emphasis on excellence, risk management and results.
Morgan Lewis London office offers a wide range of business and commercial services, including: competition, corporate, debt and equity capital markets, finance and restructuring, labour and employment including employment litigation and immigration advice, private investment fund formation and operation, structured transactions, tax planning and structuring, international commercial dispute, arbitration, insurance recovery, and white collar matters. Morgan Lewis is also strong in certain business sectors, including life sciences, financial services, energy and technology, where the firm’s leading regulatory and commercial lawyers provide a real insight into their industries.
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Nabarro is a leading international law firm with offices in London, Sheffield, Manchester, Brussels, Singapore and Dubai. From the most successful companies in the world to fast-growth start-ups, we work with a diverse range of clients across a number of sectors. We are the 2013, 2014 and 2015 winners of ‘Best Recruiter – Large City Firm’ at the LCN Awards and 2016 winner of ‘Best Trainer – Large City Firm’. In 2011, 2013 and 2015 we won ‘The best short-term insight scheme’ at the NUE awards, and were finalists in 2014 and 2016.
sector’. We are three time winners of ‘Best undergraduate internship/vacation scheme’ at the Target National Graduate Recruitment awards.
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Our trainees are based in our London or Sheffield office and undertake six four-month seats, ensuring exposure to the firm’s core practice areas and sectors. Applicants should apply online.
In 2012 and 2013, we won the NCWE award for ‘Best work placement of the year in the law
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Norton Rose Fulbright is a global law firm. We provide the world’s preeminent corporations and financial institutions with a full business law service. We have 3,800 lawyers and other legal staff based in more than 50 cities across Europe, the United States, Canada, Latin America, Asia, Australia, Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia. Recognized for our industry focus, we are strong across all the key industry sectors: financial institutions, energy, infrastructure, mining and commodities, transport, technology and innovation, and life sciences and healthcare.
Wherever we are, we operate in accordance with our global business principles of quality, unity and integrity. We aim to provide the highest possible standard of legal service in each of our offices and to maintain that level of quality at every point of contact. As a trainee at Norton Rose Fulbright, you will enjoy stimulating and challenging work on highprofile assignments for leading clients across six key industry sectors. Trainees will spend time in one of our banking, corporate and litigation teams and can also apply for an international or client secondment.
Throughout the training contract our learning and development programme will ensure trainees continue to develop and succeed at every stage in their career. Our mentoring scheme will help you make the most of the incredible depth of knowledge and experience across the organisation. www.nortonrosefulbrightgraduates.com/en/ united-kingdom
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Nottingham Law School has been delivering excellence in legal education for 50 years. Our LPC, BPTC and GDL courses build upon our links with the profession and established expertise to provide the practical skills you will need to launch your legal career. With an award-winning pro bono scheme, in-house legal advice clinic, dedicated careers team, professional practice lecture series and the UK’s first research centre for advocacy, there are plenty of additional opportunities to enhance your employability too.
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Competitive scholarships and full and part-time study options are available.
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Olswang is an international law firm recognised for our deep industry expertise in technology, media and telecoms. We pride ourselves on our innovative approach to legal services and bringing insight and influence to our clients. As a fast paced and innovative firm, Olswang manages to combine passion with a businessminded approach to the law. Our power is in our people; driven, highly-commercial and creative, they are committed to innovation and making an impact. Olswang is proudly full service. Our roots lie in our award winning technology, media and telecoms work and our global clients are
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household names. We have also established a commanding reputation for changing the face of business in a wide range of other industries, from real estate to retail and life sciences to leisure.
able to display a commitment to the law.
Olswang offers an exciting new brand of law firm, the perfect blend of modern and traditional, our reputation in all things tech precedes us and ensures an exciting and inspiring law firm to be a part of.
www.olswangtrainees.com
Being a trainee at Olswang is both demanding and rewarding. The firm is interested in hearing from individuals who have achieved, or are on course for, a upper-second class degree or above and are enthusiastic, energetic, confident and
We are offering work placement schemes for 2017 and training contracts for 2019/20.
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Orrick is a leading global law firm which specialises in serving companies in the technology, energy and financial sectors. Much of Orrick’s client work involves cross-border transactions which have increased substantially as the firm’s network of global offices has grown. Our innovative six four-month seat structure of our training contract provides trainees to experience a wide range of specialist practice groups. As part of a small intake, you will have responsibility from day one, and will be a vital member of the team in every seat.
the London office of a US law firm in action. Applicants spend the day learning more about the firm and the work on offer in the London office as well as participating in a business game designed to give a flavor of the work of a city lawyer.
www.orrick.com
We will be holding open days in the spring of 2017 which provide a good opportunity to see
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Pinsent Masons is a full-service commercial law firm. We respond to the pressures and opportunities facing global businesses with innovative solutions. We were recognised as the most innovative law firm of 2015 at the FT Innovative Lawyer Awards Europe. With 21 offices globally, wherever your commercial demands take you, we have the footprint and expertise to support you. We advise clients with global operations and recognise that giving a first class legal service goes beyond purely legal guidance. We understand the key political, economic, commercial and regulatory issues, helping to minimise risk and maximise opportunities.
We have particular expertise in five key global sectors: • advanced manufacturing and technology • energy • financial services • infrastructure • real estate A training contract at Pinsent Masons represents the first stage of a focussed development programme that will enable you to reach your full potential. Our training programme has been developed in-house, which ensures you receive a balanced and comprehensive introduction to
the profession. Trainees move departments every six months. This gives you the necessary time to develop the legal and commercial depth of understanding required to take on real clientfacing responsibility. We also offer a vacation placement and typically offer 100 vacation placements across the UK, providing a structured insight into the day to day life of our lawyers and trainees. www.pinsentmasons.com/graduate
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Our client facing legal practice is an exciting place to launch your legal career. With more than 2,500 lawyers across more than 85 countries, we have one of the most geographically extensive legal services network in the world. Because of the way our business is structured, we’re able to provide our clients rounded solutions, incorporating multi-disciplinary advice from our wider PwC business areas. By harnessing the collective expertise of more than 19,000 employees in the UK, we can give you an unrivalled, ready-made network on your first day. You’ll feel respected and encouraged to be the best you can be – thanks to the quality of our legal training, plus the daily exposure to the highest standards of work, and broad business skills.
The practice groups you could work in include mergers and acquisitions, banking, commercial litigation, commercial fraud, corporate structuring, cyber security, employment, intellectual property and information technology, pensions, real estate and tax litigation. You may also complete a seat in Dubai.
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Ambitious and entrepreneurial graduates are rewarded at Reed Smith with a training programme that is supportive, challenging and exciting, offering unparalleled client and international secondments. Our unique culture, which allows trainees to turn passions into careers, is one of the reasons our lawyers remain with us for such a long time, moving seats, jobs roles and even countries, but sticking with the firm. We are a global law firm with more than 1,800 lawyers in offices throughout Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the United States. Unusually, we operate as one global partnership, rather than
separate country-specific partnerships, which is why we’re so good at collaborating across borders to support our clients.
www.reedsmith.com/united_kingdom/ graduates
As a leading adviser to industries including financial services, energy and natural resources, entertainment and media, real estate and shipping, our lawyers work with some of the most innovative organisations in the world – from multi-billion dollar Silicon Valley giants to national banks. We have even represented some of the biggest pop stars on the planet.
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If you’re looking for a predictable career in a traditional firm then please stop reading now. At RPC you’ll get a whole lot more. Of course clients expect their lawyers to understand the law. But what they really want is advice from smart people who get the commercial context and can spot the business implications. On this measure, you won’t find better than RPC; in 2015 the UK’s leading client satisfaction report placed us in the top spot overall out of 383 firms benchmarked, and ranked us number one for quality of commercial advice. Not for the first time. Combining this commercial outlook with some of the leading lawyers in their fields and great clients,
we offer a depth of knowledge and creative approach to problem solving that few firms can rival. It’s no surprise, then, that we’re regularly praised in the leading directories for the quality of our training programmes.
www.rpc.co.uk/careers/trainee-recruitment
Headquartered in a state of the art site in the City of London, we also have offices in Bristol, Hong Kong and Singapore. Our culture of excellence, development and open access is driven by our open plan working environment where knowledge is easily shared and access to partners is an everyday reality. It brings out the best in our people and ensures that the service we offer our clients is second to none.
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Shoosmiths is a leading national law firm, with offices in Basingstoke, Birmingham, Edinburgh, London, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Northampton, Nottingham, Reading, and Southampton.
a secondment to a client’s in-house legal team, providing an invaluable insight from the client’s perspective.
Our commitment to providing top quality client service is recognised by both the calibre of our clients and by the national awards that we have won, including Law Firm of the Year in Legal Week’s British Legal Awards 2015.
As a full service firm, we offer experience in a variety of areas, including commercial, corporate, private client, litigation and disputes, intellectual property and real estate. We believe that the best way to learn is in practice, that’s why we give our trainees experience in real cases and deals right from the start.
Applications for our 2019 training contracts and 2017 summer placements will open in December 2016. Over two years, a trainee will complete four six-month placements, one of which could be
Our culture and values are at the heart of the firm. We pride ourselves on our friendly and dynamic working environment and on an ethos that recognises the value of the individual. Our
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people are given the responsibility, confidence, recognition and support they need to develop their skills and make a real contribution to the firm’s success. www.shoosmiths.co.uk/graduates
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With approximately 1,800 lawyers and other professionals working in a network of offices around the world, Sidley is a leading international law firm. Globally, we work for many different businesses, financial institutions, governments and individuals. As a trainee, you experience the international side not by constantly travelling but by working on multi-jurisdictional matters and with people from all around the world. We have a reputation for working on the very cutting edge, complex transactions, which helps to make life all the more interesting and challenging. Culturally, we are very open, friendly and down to earth.
Sidley is looking for people who are bright, with outstanding academic qualifications. Beyond pure academic ability, we’re looking for people who are genuinely interested in the commercial world, and the world of finance in particular.
www.sidleycareers.com
We offer 10–12 training contracts per year and 45 vacation scheme places over winter, spring and summer.
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Simmons & Simmons is a leading international law firm with fully integrated teams working throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Our vision is to continue to be a leading global law firm through our sector focus, which is underpinned by our ambition to provide our clients with high quality advice and deliver value through new ways of working.
markets, competition and regulatory, corporate, dispute resolution, employment, pensions and employee benefits, financial services, information, communications and technology, intellectual property, projects; real estate and tax. We also focus on the energy and infrastructure market, in particular through our international projects and construction teams.
From our offices in major business and financial centres we view the world through the lens of our key sectors: asset management and investment funds, financial institutions, life sciences, and technology, media and telecommunications. These priority sector teams are drawn from the core practice areas of: asset finance, banking, capital
For more information contact our graduate recruitment team – recruitment@simmons-simmons.com
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Slaughter and May is one of the most prestigious law firms in the world. We advise on high-profile and often landmark international transactions. Our excellent and varied client list ranges from governments to entrepreneurs, from retailers to entertainment companies and from conglomerates to Premier League football clubs. We are a full service law firm to corporate clients and have leading practitioners across a wide range of practice areas. Nearly all of our work has an international element and we have offices in London, Brussels, Hong Kong and Beijing. In other jurisdictions we prefer to remain agile by leading unified, hand-picked
teams of lawyers from market-leading law firms. All the firms we work with across the wold have a reputation for excellence and independence that mirrors our own.
insight into life as a city lawyer. Full details of these opportunities can be found on our website. www.slaughterandmay.com/careers/traineesolicitors
We have approximately 80 vacancies for trainee solicitors each year. Starting salaries begin at £43,000 for the first year of training, and rise to £48,000 in the second year. We look for candidates from a diverse range of backgrounds with a high upper-second class at undergraduate level from any university, and take an equal mix of law and non-law graduates. We offer open days, workshops and work experience schemes to enable you to gain an
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Squire Patton Boggs is a global law firm with 45 offices in 21 countries. Our team of 2,600 includes more than 1,500 lawyers. Recognized as having one of the broadest global footprints in the legal industry, we provide access to new knowledge, new markets and new expertise. In the UK, we operate from offices in Birmingham, Leeds, London and Manchester, working with a diverse mix of global clients. Many of these are among the biggest names and brands in the world: FTSE and Fortune 100 companies, emerging and fast-growth businesses, financial institutions, and regional and national governments.
Trainees all take part in a three-month pre-training contract secondment, an element that really sets us apart from other law firms. This opportunity helps develop our trainees’ understanding of how businesses work and what is expected of legal advisors. It also demonstrates the confidence we have in our trainees from the start.
www.squirepattonboggs.com
After the initial pre-training contract secondment, trainees spend time in six four-month seats; this opportunity gives our trainees the chance to create their own individual training programme – an essential foundation for a career.
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Stephenson Harwood is a thriving, international law firm with 150 partners and more than 900 staff worldwide. Not only do they act for a wide range of listed and private companies, institutions and successful entrepreneurs, they also offer a full range of services in a wide variety of sectors.
and there is a continuous review of your career development. There are also opportunities to spend one six-month seat in Hong Kong, Dubai, Seoul or Singapore and to take advantage of client secondment opportunities. The firm will also give you free language tuition where appropriate.
www.shlegal.com/graduate
Two years, four seats and as much responsibility as you can shoulder; that’s what we offer the 18 trainees we take on each year. And because our training is not only structured and practical but highly personalised, you’ll be able to develop along a path that’s absolutely right for you. It will be challenging, but on-the-job training is complemented by in-house seminars; trainees share an office with a partner or senior associate;
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Stevens & Bolton LLP is a leading full service top 100 law firm recommended in 24 specialist practice areas by leading legal directories and winner of The Legal Business Awards 2016 category “National/Regional Law Firm of the Year”. We have 10 trainees, 40 partners and 135 lawyers in total (approximately 200 people). Based in Guildford, our single office approach ensures excellent communication and efficient coordination of our resources. We advise a number of the top 100 and other UK FTSE companies, as well as many other substantial international groups, owner managed businesses and SMEs. As a result our trainees get first class experience of the business world.
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Applications for 2019 training contracts open on 1 December 2016 and close on 31 July 2017. We operate four, six-month seats in most of the key business areas we specialise in: corporate, commercial, private wealth and family, real estate, intellectual property, dispute resolution and employment, pensions and immigration. Our bespoke training programme together with supervision when you need it, support from colleagues and responsibility as soon as you are ready, creates a compelling proposition at the outset of your career. Applications for our 2017 spring and summer work placements are accepted between 1 December 2016 and 31 January 2017.
www.stevens-bolton.com
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Taylor Wessing is a full-service international law firm, standing at the forefront of the industries of tomorrow. Acting as legal advisors to well-known clients in progressive and cutting-edge sectors, we’re a firm for the ground breakers, the smart thinkers and the trail blazers. Our spark, focus and lateral thinking make us exceptional legal advisors, helping our clients to succeed by thinking innovatively about their business issues. Our focus on the industries of tomorrow – technology, media and communications, life sciences, private wealth and energy – means that alongside law students, we also recruit a wide range of students who have studied non-
law degrees. We look for team players with a minimum of ABB grades at A-Level and a uppersecond class degree in any discipline. You’ll need to be confident and enthusiastic with the communication skills to build vibrant relationships with our clients. You’ll have the energy, ambition and creativity to take an early responsibility and have a real impact on our business. You’ll also be committed to a career in law, with a genuine passion to learn and explore new boundaries.
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At The City Law School we offer education and training for every step of your legal career. Taught in the heart of legal London, our law courses give you the essential legal skills and knowledge needed to be successful in law. We were the first law school in London to educate students and practitioners at all stages of legal education. With three levels of study – undergraduate, postgraduate and professional – we offer courses suitable for everyone interested in following a career in law no matter what stage they are at. Courses include the Bar Professional Training Course for intended barristers, the Legal Practice Course for those who want to follow the solicitor route and the well renowned Graduate
Diploma in Law, for non-law graduates who wish to convert to law.
www.city.ac.uk/law
Our Master of Laws programme (LLM) gives students the flexibility to enhance their legal knowledge by choosing from a range of different electives to gain a general master of laws award, or specialise in particular areas of law, such as European Union law, human rights law, criminal litigation, dispute resolution and more. We also offer a distance learning programme; LLM international business law, giving students even more flexibility to study for a masters from anywhere in the world.
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At The University of Law you’ll get the best possible start to your legal career. We are the world’s leading professional law school and, with centres in Birmingham, Bristol, Chester, Guildford, Leeds, London and Manchester, we’re the first choice for aspiring future lawyers. Our range of innovative postgraduate courses, including the Graduate Diploma in Law, LL.M Legal Practice Course and Bar Professional Training Course are designed and taught by lawyers. All have a clear focus on building the practical skills, commercial awareness and independent thinking you’ll need to succeed in the modern world of law.
programme and the best careers service in UK legal education, our 97%* employability rate speaks for itself. You’ll benefit from excellent tutor support, state-of-the-art IT facilities and access to unrivalled online and offline learning methods and resources.
www.law.ac.uk
*97% of the University of Law’s full-time LPC students who graduated in summer 2015 had secured employment within nine months of graduation (based on figures for students whose destinations we know). 92% had secured legal employment.
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Now in its 12th year, The Lex 100 is the marketleading guide for law students at every stage of their legal education. Based on the findings of a survey completed by over 3,000 trainees, The Lex 100 offers unique insight into the vast array of training contracts in the UK market.
from trainees. The ‘Lex 100 Verdict’ for each firm is authored by the Lex team, but consists entirely of the anonymous responses we received from that firm’s trainees. The peer-to-peer analysis is invaluable and helps candidates determine which firms they should be applying to.
We are keen to meet with students, hear about their experiences and to speak with them about why they are interested in a career in law and how they plan to pursue that career. We are also looking forward to distributing copies of our new Lex 100 guide and to publicise the important findings it contains. Our editorial is primarily drawn from the extensive feedback we receive
Follow us on Twitter at @thelex100 and on Facebook to keep up-to-date with regular information regarding the UK legal market.
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Bring your talent to TLT and your career to life. We’re a fast-growing law firm with a reputation for working creatively and collaboratively to help our clients stay one step ahead. Supportive, flexible and open-minded, TLT is the ideal place to progress your career. If, like us, you’re commercially astute with a can-do approach, we’ll encourage you to keep learning, embracing opportunity and making things happen. What can we offer you as a trainee? Exposure to wide-ranging live cases for businesses like Barclay’s Bank, Sainsbury’s, Boohoo.com, Environment Agency, Aardman, Home Retail Group, BBC and Glastonbury Festival.
Our culture means you’ll build strong relationships with both partners and clients as you make a valued contribution to the continued success of our growing firm.
www.tltsolicitors.com
We recruit trainees into our Bristol, Manchester, London, Glasgow and Belfast offices. If you apply for the vacation scheme not only will you have the opportunity to experience life as a TLT trainee, we also neatly incorporate our training contract assessments into the week. For the assessment day route you’ll spend one day with us, but we’ll still ensure you meet people across the firm and leave with an excellent understanding of TLT culture.
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Travers Smith is an award-winning independent city law firm with a reputation for enterprising thinking and uncompromising quality in all of its chosen fields, and a focus on advising clients on international matters. A very high proportion of our work has an international dimension and we accompany our clients to every corner of the globe. To do that, we have developed close ties with carefully chosen quality overseas independent law firms who share our specialist strengths and very demanding standards. The firm’s comprehensive training programme ensures that trainees experience a broad range of work. All trainee solicitors sit with partners and associates, which ensures a refreshing lack
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of hierarchy. It also means that trainees receive individual and extensive training from experienced lawyers, and can look forward to client contact, and the responsibility that goes with it, from day one. During the two-year training contract, trainees spend six months in our corporate department and another six months in either the dispute resolution or the employment departments. The firm offers you a choice for your other two seats in two of our other specialist departments. Trainees may also have the opportunity to spend six months in the firm’s Paris office.
Travers Smith is defined by its independence, unique culture, deep commercial insight, progressive thinking and incomparable client experience. www.traverssmith.com/careers/graduaterecruitment
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Watson Farley & Williams was founded in 1982 in the City of London. It has since grown to 140 partners and a total staff of over 800. We have offices in London, New York, Paris, Rome, Milan, Athens, Madrid, Hamburg, Munich, Frankfurt, Dubai, Singapore, Bangkok and Hong Kong. Our international offices work together, a structure of particular benefit to our international clients. We have leading market positions in international finance and investment, maritime and energy. We also specialise in the sectors of natural resources, transport, real estate and technology.
We emphasise gaining practical experience and learning to work as part of a team. As our trainees progress and their competence and confidence grows, there are opportunities to assume responsibility for specific areas of a transaction/case. Our trainees benefit from a six seat programme allowing them to experience a broad number of practice groups with one seat in an international office.
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Weil’s London office is the largest of its European offices and the hub of its European practice. The office is a leading player in the UK legal market and is consistently regarded as one of the most successful London offices of a US-based law firm. The Firm supports a varied client base of European, US and global private equity houses, corporates and financial institutions on domestic and cross-border matters. We provide clients with legal expertise at the highest level across our key practices of private equity, corporate mergers and acquisitions, funds, banking and finance, structured finance, restructuring and dispute resolution, and have been involved in some of the most significant,
high-profile and prestigious mandates across all our legal specialisms. The majority of our work involves multidisciplinary teams across the specialist fields of competition, corporate governance and compliance, employment, intellectual property, management incentives, pensions, real estate, tax and technology, leveraging the expertise of our full-service capabilities for our clients. Come along to our stand to meet graduate recruitment and trainee associates, who will be happy to answer your questions, and provide a greater insight into our vacation schemes, training contracts and the opportunities available at Weil.
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White & Case is a global law firm with nearly 2,000 lawyers worldwide. Our network of 38 offices provide the full range of legal services of the highest quality in almost every major commercial centre and emerging market. In London, our key areas of work include; banking, financial restructuring and insolvency, capital markets (including regulatory compliance, high yield and securitisation), dispute resolution (including antitrust, commercial litigation, intellectual property, international arbitration, trade, white collar and construction and engineering), energy, infrastructure, project and asset finance (EIPAF); corporate (including
mergers and acquisitions, private equity, employment, compensation and benefits, investment funds, real estate and tax). White & Case is looking to recruit ambitious trainees who have a desire to gain hands-on practical experience from day one. As part of our training contract, we offer every trainee a guaranteed six-month overseas seat. Apply online for our two day first year insight scheme, our open days for penultimate year students, finalists and graduates, or one of our vacation schemes running throughout winter, spring and summer.
Winter vacation scheme deadline – 2 November 2016 Spring and summer vacation schemes deadline – 31 January 2017 Open day deadlines - 10 November 2016 (24 November 2016 open day) and 14 December 2016 (12 January 2017 open day) First year two day insight scheme deadline – 31 March 2017 Training contract deadline – 31 July 2017 www.whitecase.com
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Wilkin Chapman LLP is a full service law firm having 10 offices operating out of Lincolnshire, South and East Yorkshire. The firm has grown over the years, both in terms of size and turnover, and in its development and expansion into new practice areas. Wilkin Chapman LLP is a modern, forwardthinking organisation whose reputation has been built up over many years. Its aim is to exceed clients’ expectations by providing not just quality legal advice but commercially aware business advice.
With the main registered office in Grimsby, the firm has an additional Grimsby office along with others in Lincoln, Beverley, Louth, Horncastle, Alford, Sutton on Sea, Mablethorpe and Sheffield. Typically, your two year contract will provide you with hands on experience in a number of different areas of law, one of them non-contentious. The training period will be split into one full year and two six month placements. For some part of your training contract, you may spend time at more than one of our offices in order to give you experience of different types of clients and work.
The departments that you are likely to gain experience in include; litigation, corporate and commercial, commercial property, recoveries, family and mediation, probate and tax, agriculture, personal injury or regulatory and crime. www.wilkinchapman.co.uk
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Having acted for 42% of the Sunday Times ‘Rich List,’ Withers is the leading international law firm for successful people, their families, businesses and philanthropic work. The firm has more than 1,000 people spread across 19 offices in Europe, the US, the Caribbean, Asia and Australia. This allows us to give unparalleled expert advice in commercial and tax law, trusts, estate planning, litigation, intellectual property, charities, real estate, reputation management, employment, family, art law and other legal issues facing high net worth individuals. Withers offers a truly inclusive environment where 42% of partners are female and a third trained with the firm. The firm has also been consistently listed in The Sunday
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Times Top 100 ‘Best Companies to Work for’ since 2011 and won LawCareers.Net’s ‘Best Training Principle’ award in both 2014 and 2015. The firm’s reputation in commercial law along with its status as the largest private client team in Europe sets it apart from other city firms. www.withersworldwide.com/en-gb
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A world of difference Laws, international markets, global institutions‌ all changing every day. So how do we, as an international law firm, create the agility of mind that enables us to guide some of the world’s most influential organisations into the future? By allowing bright people the freedom to grow. By training lawyers in a way that develops a closer understanding of clients through working on a wider range of transactions. By fostering an ethos of knowledge sharing, support and mutual development by promoting from within and leaving the clocks outside when it comes to billing. To learn more about how our key differences not only make a world of difference to our clients, but also to our lawyers and their careers, visit
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