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Addleshaw Goddard
Addleshaw Goddard is a leading national law firm which provides an excellent service to a global client base from our three high calibre UK locations. Ranked 16th largest law firm in the UK with a fee income in 2004-2005 of over £139 million, we were voted UK Firm of the Year at the Legal Week Awards 2004. We have four main practice areas: corporate, real estate, finance and projects and contentious and commercial, covering advice to clients on areas such as banking to private client and employment to media work.
For more information on the firm, please visit our website at www.addleshawgoddard.com, or contact a member of the graduate recruitment team on 0207 606 8855 or 0161 934 6000. |
Allen & Overy
Starting a training contract with Allen & Overy is just the beginning of what will be a stimulating and rewarding legal career. Throughout the two years of your training contract, we will work closely with you to ensure you have the right support to develop into a successful commercial solicitor. With more than 5,000 people working in 31 major financial centres in 22 countries, and more than half of these outside the UK, Allen & Overy truly is a global firm.
Visit www.allenovery.com/careeruk for details of vacation placements, training contracts and open days. |
Ashurst
Ashurst LLP is a leading international law firm advising corporates and financial institutions, with core businesses in mergers and acquisitions, corporate and structured finance. Our strong and growing presence around the world is built on extensive experience in working with our clients on the complex international legal and regulatory issues relating to cross-border transactions.
We have 217 partners, and around 1800 staff in total working from fourteen international offices; Abu Dhabi, Brussels, Dubai, Frankfurt, London, Madrid, Milan, Munich, New Delhi, New York, Paris, Singapore, Stockholm and Tokyo.
It is only by selective recruitment that we can maintain the Ashurst culture and the high quality and consistency of our service. And our vision? To be the legal adviser of choice to the world's most ambitious organisations.
Our main areas of practice are in Corporate; Employment, Incentives and Pensions; Energy Transport and Infrastructure; EU and Competition; International Finance; Litigation; Real Estate; Tax; and Technology and Commercial.
We have up to 55 Training Contracts to commence in September 2011 and March 2012 and a series of vacation placements for up to 90 students at Easter and across the summer months. You can apply online via our website from 1st December 2008 at www.ashurst.com |
Baker & McKenzie
Baker & McKenzie London offers a trainee experience that no other firm can match.
Central to that is the global setting in which we work. The London office is large enough to be significant, but not so large that our graduates are lost. Therefore by working here, you have influence in a key office of a firm with one of the largest international networks in the world.
You will be dealing with colleagues in overseas offices on an almost daily basis, working together on cross-border transactions and sharing knowledge. There are plenty of opportunities for you to gain overseas experience, either through our Trainee Secondment Programme or, post-qualification, through the Associate Training Programme.
Because of our global mindset, we attract a high proportion of multinational clients, many of which are household names. It is what Baker & McKenzie was founded on. It is still a huge part of what we do, whether global corporations like EQT, Mittal Steel, Nike and Oracle; or blue-chip British companies like BP and RioTinto. As a trainee here, you will work with big names on big deals.
Clients do not come to us solely because of our international reach, however. They come to us because of the pragmatic, commercial insight that we bring to our legal advice. We work hard to understand our clients businesses and their priorities, and then we consider how our legal advice can best support them.
It is an approach on which we place a lot of emphasis, for our trainees in particular. Much of your training and development is geared to enabling you to be an incisive, yet practical lawyer. One who can give their clients advice in a page of succinct, business-focused English. At every stage of your career, our focus is on helping you make the most of your strengths, of your experience and of your expertise.
It means we are looking for trainees who have an interest in business as well as the law, who have an interest in supporting our clients to achieve their objectives, and who are keen, not just to deliver a legal opinion, but to build quality client relationships. We need bright, intelligent people who can develop a rapport with senior figures at major international companies, and who can articulate legal issues in an appropriate way for that business.
In terms of culture, ours is one of friendship; a culture in which people are committed to the firm and its approach, but at the same time, have the freedom to think for themselves. We aim to foster an environment where you are encouraged to have ideas, where you are consulted about decisions, and where no matter whom you are in the organization, your opinions are valued.
Our approach to CSR and pro bono work is an integral aspect of this ethos. For us, diversity has always been a cornerstone of the firm - understanding that people are different and that we are stronger as a firm when we embrace those differences and allow people to develop and play to their strengths.
Above all, our culture is one in which you can develop your strengths. And through the development of your strengths, with our support, our training, our commercial approach and the way we work, we enable you to be the best lawyer you can be.
Awards:
International Law Firm of the Year (tied) (PLC Which? Lawyer, 2008)
Ranked No 1 - Top International Firm in London (The Lawyer 2006 and 2007).
Ranked No 1 - Top UK Global Law Firm (Legal 500, 2007)
Best Trainer - Large City Firm (LCN/TSG Training and Recruitment Awards, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 - the only firm to have won this award for four consecutive years).
Top 100 Graduate Employer (The Times, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 - the only non-UK law firm on the list).
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Berwin Leighton Paisner
Firm Profile
Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) is a premier city law firm with expertise in many major industry and service sectors. BLP is growing, ambitious and innovative, as well as nurturing and supportive. It was Chambers and Partners’ UK Law Firm of the Year 2005, as well as The Lawyer’s ‘Law Firm of the Year’ in 2004. It has an office in Brussels, Singapore and, as well as its USA/French alliance partner and German ‘best friend’, it works with preferred firms around the world, including exchanging associate secondees.
Main Areas of Work
The full range of real estate work including investment, development, planning, construction, property finance, litigation and funds. Traditional corporate finance areas of M&A, equity capital markets and investment funds, as well as outsourcing, EU, competition, IT, telecoms and employment. An active banking and capital markets team with a growing securitization capability, a project finance team that is expanding internationally, and an asset finance team. Strong and growing corporate tax team, intellectual property, commercial litigation, and reinsurance and insurance.
LPC+
The firm runs the UK’s first tailor-made LPC Course, called the LPC+. All trainees study at the College of Law, where tutors are joined by BLP lawyers and trainers who will help to deliver some of the sessions. BLP precedents and documents are used, discussing how theory is applied to real cases and transactions.
Training Environment
The office environment is relaxed and friendly, and trainees can enjoy early responsibility secure in the knowledge they are fully supported. Trainees spend six months in four seats and have the opportunity to work in our Brussels office for 6 months and take part in client secondments. Due to our small intake, trainees will only ever be 1 in an intake of 20 trainees.
Trainee Profile
The firm is looking for intelligent, energetic, positive and hard-working team players who have an interest in business and gain a sense of achievement from finding solutions.
Benefits
Flexible benefits include permanent health insurance, private medical insurance, subsidized gym membership, 25 days holiday a year. Salary for 1st year trainees is £30,000 + £2,500 golden hello, increasing to £33,000 in the second year. NQ salary is currently £62,000.
Places Available
50 vacation placements every year (places have all now been filled for 2007). Applications for 2008 will open in November. 40 training contracts available for September 2009/March 2010. The deadline for applications is 31 July 2007 sponsorship & awards CPE/GDL and LPC+ fees paid and £7,200 maintenance p.a. To apply on-line please visit - http://www.blplaw.com/recruitment/trainee/ |
Clifford Chance
| The world's first fully integrated law firm, providing a comprehensive range of local and international legal services for the world of modern business and finance. We operate in the leading business centres around the world from our 32 offices in 19 countries |
CMS Cameron McKenna
CMS Cameron McKenna LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales with registration number OC310335. It is a body corporate which has members whom we refer to as "partners". It is regulated by the Law Society of England and Wales. A list of members and their professional qualifications is open to inspection at the registered office, Mitre House, 160 Aldersgate Street, London EC1A 4DD. Members are either solicitors or registered foreign lawyers. Regulated by the Law Society of England and Wales.
CMS Cameron McKenna LLP is a member of the CMS alliance of independent European law firms.
CMS offices and associated offices worldwide: Berlin, Brussels, London, Madrid, Paris, Rome, Utrecht, Vienna, Zürich, Aberdeen, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Arnhem, Beijing, Belgrade, Bratislava, Bristol, Bucharest, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Casablanca, Chemnitz, Cologne, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Edinburgh, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hilversum, Hong Kong, Leipzig, Lyon, Marbella, Milan, Montevideo, Moscow, Munich, New York, Prague, Sao Paolo, Seville, Shanghai, Sofia, Strasbourg, Stuttgart, Warsaw and Zagreb. |
Deloitte
Deloitte, the fastest growing professional services firm in the UK, offers graduates stimulation and reward in our core service lines of Audit, Tax, Consulting and Corporate Finance. We're the only 'big 4' firm maintaining consulting as a core service and are winning more full service client assignments as a result. We're a global firm with a network of UK offices and an abundance of opportunities available for first, penultimate and final year students. To find out more about these varied opportunities please review our website or feel free to attend any of our forthcoming events a detailed on this page or our website.
The Graduate Recruitment Team
Deloitte recruits graduates with a minimum of 300 UCAS tariff points and a predicted or obtained 2:1 in any discipline. We welcome applications for deferred entry and recruit nationwide.
Click here to visit the Graduate Recruitment website. http://www.deloitte.co.uk/graduates
If you have any queries please contact 020 7007 4120. |
Denton Wilde Sapte
Denton Wilde Sapte is an international law firm with a network of offices and associate offices spanning the UK, Europe, Middle East, CIS and Africa. We provide a full range of commercial legal services to leading organizations across four core sectors: Financial Institutions; Energy, Transport & Infrastructure; Real Estate & Retail; and Technology, Media & Telecoms.
We aim to promote a collegiate and open working environment, where ideas are shared and people work together to achieve goals. Equally, we recognise that it is important that all staff are valued for their individual contribution and are given the scope to develop their unique skills and talents during their careers.
Given the diversity of our business, we look for people with wide-ranging skills, aptitudes and personalities. You will need drive and ambition, with the potential to contribute to the growing success of the firm.
The Training Contract
As a trainee, you will undertake four six-month seats; at least one in the Banking & Finance and/or Real Estate department as well as a contentious seat. Trainees may also undertake a seat in one of our international offices or with one of our clients.
During your seats we provide full departmental training, designed to give you good grounding in the skills and resources required. Your supervisor will be a partner or senior solicitor and you'll be expected to manage work from a variety of other staff to broaden your experience. As a trainee, you'll be given as much responsibility as you can handle, and will be working with the law, with the team and with clients in real business situations.
Sponsorship Details
We pay full fees for the GDL and/or LPC and offer a maintenance grant of £6,000 per annum (£7,000 per annum for students studying in London).
Salary Details
First year: £36,000 Second year: £40,000
Benefits
Flexible benefit scheme, including subsidized gym membership, season ticket loan, pension scheme, private medical insurance.
Vacation Schemes
These events consist of talks, skills workshops and shadowing trainees in department seats. They enable students to gain an insight into commercial law and life as a trainee.
How to Apply
We accept applications from any degree discipline (minimum 2:1). Applicants should be 2nd or penultimate year law students, final year law or non-law students or have already graduated.
Training contracts available for 2010: 35
Application deadline: 31 July 2008
For details about our vacation schemes and training contracts, please visit the graduation recruitment section of our website, www.dentonwildesapte.com where you will be able to apply online. |
DLA Piper
Address: Victoria Square House, Victoria Square, Birmingham B2 4DL
Tel: 020 7796 6677
Email: recruitment.graduate@dlapiper.com
Website: www.dlapiper.com
DLA Piper is one of the world's largest legal services organizations, with offices in over 60 worldwide locations, including eight in the UK. Our impressive client base includes some of the world's leading businesses, governments, banks and financial institutions. This coupled with an emphasis on high quality service and teamwork; provide a challenging fast-paced working environment. Internationally, DLA Piper provides legal advice in many major cities across Europe, Asia and the US. Our current vision is to be the leading global business law firm. As well as being an exciting place to work, a number of independent bodies, including The Financial Times and The Sunday Times have ranked DLA Piper as a good place to work. We hold the Investors in People accreditation, demonstrating the firm's commitment to our employees and their ongoing development.
In 2006 DLA Piper was voted Global Law Firm of the Year at The Lawyer Awards.
Types of Work
DLA Piper has the following main areas of work - corporate; employment, pensions and benefits; finance and projects; litigation; real estate; regulatory; restructuring; and technology, media and commercial.
Vacancies: 90+
Starting Salary (2006):
£31,000 - London
£22,000 - Regions
£18,000 – Scotland
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Eversheds
Eversheds LLP, one of the largest full service international law firms, employs over 4,000 people in 37 offices in major cities across Europe, the Middle East and Asia. They work with some of the worldÕs most prestigious organisations in the public and private sectors.
Eversheds provides expertise and resources in abundance. What really sets it apart is the approach its lawyers take to the work they do. Extensive training in project management techniques ensures every piece of work is scoped, planned and quoted up front. This allows the firm to uncover its clientsÕ real needs and act upon them. It means Eversheds can be counted on to deliver great service and predictability in costs, timescales and quality.
Eversheds knows that continued success relies on attracting and developing talented people who share their commitment to make the company the most client centered international law firm and a great place to work.
Five main practice areas: company commercial, human resources, legal systems, litigation and dispute management and real estate
Focusing on eight industry sectors: education, energy, financial institutions, food, healthcare, local government, retail and transport.
Eversheds News http://press.eversheds.com/
Recruitment Our Training Contract online application form is open all year round. If you pass the application screening and the ability tests, you will be invited to an assessment centre where you'll demonstrate your skills in different situations, and get to know us better. We run assessment centres in all of our offices throughout the year. They include a commercial role-play, in-tray exercise, business analysis exercises and an interview. We assume candidates have no knowledge of the law; so all students are on an equal footing. We will notify you of your result as soon as possible.
Over 150 students undertake vacation schemes running for 1 week during Easter and 2 weeks during the Summer. The schemes are a great opportunity for you to get a real feel for what Eversheds is all about, and to experience the kind of work we do. Apply by 31 January 2009 for a vacation placement. Please do not leave it until the last moment to apply!
Most of our trainees (around 85 percent) have been on our vacation placement scheme. Everyone who undertakes a placement is automatically considered for a training contract. If you are unable to attend a vacation scheme you can apply all year round for a training contract though it's best to submit your application by by 31 July 2009 for 2011 training contract.
Starting salary for trainees is £35,000 (London).
You'll find more details of our application process and our application form at www.eversheds.com/graduaterecruitment. For your graduate recruitment queries, please email gradrec@eversheds.com.
Training profile: Eversheds people are valued for being straightforward, enterprising and effective. The firm listens to its clients. It likes to simplify rather than complicate. You will need to display commercial acumen; imagination and drive and above all, you will need to be results driven. As a trainee you will get as much responsibility as you can handle and will benefit from the hands on, learning by doing philosophy. The firm takes your training very seriously but expects it to be fun too.
Sponsorship and awards: GDL/LPC fees and maintenance grants. |
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
| Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has a network of 29 offices in 19 countries. We provide first-rate legal services to corporations, financial institutions and governments around the world. Our lawyers work on high profile, interesting and often ground-breaking work. |
Herbert Smith
Herbert Smith LLP is a leading international legal practice with a network of offices in Europe and Asia.
We are committed to excellence, providing tailored legal advice of the highest quality to major corporations, governments, financial institutions and all types of commercial organisations. We offer an unrivalled balance of corporate, finance and banking, and dispute-resolution advice to our clients worldwide.
Quality is the guiding principle running through our 1,100 lawyer network in Europe and Asia. Our alliance with the German firm, Gleiss Lutz, and the Dutch and Belgian firm, Stibbe, enables us to provide and integrated domestic and cross-border service to all our clients. The working environment is strongly team oriented, friendly and informal.
Applications are welcome from penultimate-year law students and final-year non-law students, or anyone wishing to commence a training contract in two years' time. Trainees need a strong academic record, common sense, self-confidence and intelligence to make their own way in a large firm. They are typically high-achieving and creative thinking, with good interpersonal skills.
Career Opportunities:
Vacation Schemes
Training Contracts
Structured training and supervision are designed to allow experience of a unique range of contentious and non-contentious work. You will be encouraged to take on responsibility as soon as you join the firm. You will work within partner-led teams and have your own role. Individual strengths will be monitored, developed and utilised. On-the-job training will be divided into four six-month seats; one seat will be in the corporate division and one in the litigation division. You can then apply for specialist seats such as IP or EU and competition or the opportunity to go secondment to a client, the firm's advocacy unit or an overseas office.
Sponsorship:
CPE/GDL and LPC fees are paid plus up to £7,000 maintenance grant p.a.
Salary:
First year; £31,000. Second year; £35,000. Qualification salary; £55, 000
Application Procedure
Further information on our training contracts can be found by visiting our website www.herbertsmith.com/careers. You can also request a brochure by emailing us at graduate.recruitment@herbertsmith.com or by calling on 0207 374 8000. |
Jones Day
Jones Day is a global law firm with a well-established City of London practice. The firm has around 200 lawyers in London, which means that the office retains the intimacy and atmosphere of a medium sized City firm. We operate a unique non-rotational training system and trainees receive work simultaneously from the firm's core practice areas. This allows for freedom, flexibility and extensive client contact from the start. We have 15-20 training contract vacancies for September 2009 and vacation schemes during the Easter and Summer period for law and non-law students.
To apply, please submit your CV and covering letter via our on-line application system at www.jonesdaylondon.com |
Linklaters
Linklaters is a global law firm that advises the world’s leading companies, financial institutions and governments on their most challenging transactions and assignments.
There are approximately 2,000 lawyers at Linklaters, of whom around 500 are partners, and a total of approximately 5,000 staff globally. We operate in 22 different countries and work with many of the FTSE 100.
Our work is divided into three main areas – Corporate, Finance & Projects and Commercial. While many law firms will have strengths in particular areas, we are strong across the full range of business law. This is one of the factors that make Linklaters such a challenging and rewarding place to train as a lawyer.
This is a firm that achieves exceptional things for clients, but it is also a supportive community in which individuals are encouraged to be themselves. Ask anyone from Linklaters what they most enjoy about the firm, and the answer is usually the same: “it’s the people”.
We offer training contracts and vacation schemes to both law and non-law students. Non-law students in their final year can apply for a 2-week vacation scheme at Christmas, and law students in their penultimate year can apply for 2-week or 4-week vacation schemes throughout the summer. Our vacation schemes provide a fantastic insight into life as a trainee at Linklaters, as well as offering you the opportunity to learn a great deal and enjoy a varied social programme!
Students who successfully secure a training contract at Linklaters are sponsored through the Legal Practice Course (LPC) and Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) if a non-law student. This means your law school fees are paid for you. We also assist you with your living costs by providing a maintenance grant. For the LPC the grant is £7,000 and for the GDL the grant is £5,000 or £6,000 depending on where you are studying.
The training contract itself is built around four six-month seats or placements. The seat system gives trainees front-line exposure to a range of practice areas. This develops versatile, well-rounded lawyers, but it also gives trainees a good idea of the kind of law they want to do when they qualify. There are also opportunities for client secondments or overseas placements throughout the training contract.
Training with Linklaters means working alongside some of the world’s best lawyers on some of the world’s most challenging deals. We expect a lot of our graduate trainees, but the rewards – personal and professional as well as financial – are very high indeed. For further details, please visit www.linklaters.com/careers/ukgrads. |
Lovells
Lovells is a leading international business law firm based in the City of London, with offices across Asia, Europe and North America. The work at Lovells is varied and our international strength across a wide range of practice areas gives us a reputation not only for corporate, finance and dispute resolution, but also for other specialist areas including real estate, intellectual property, EU/competition and insurance.
The firm offers 90 trainee solicitor vacancies each year for candidates gaining at least a 2.1 (or equivalent) in any discipline, who can demonstrate strong academic/intellectual ability, ambition and motivation for career choice, good communication skills and a professional/commercial attitude.
There are also 90 vacation placements available to undergraduates at Christmas, Easter and during the summer.
Please visit our website at www.lovells.com/graduates for more information about Lovells. |
Macfarlanes
Macfarlanes is a leading City law firm practising at the forefront of many areas of commercial endeavour. We are instructed by major businesses, industrial enterprises and high net worth individuals who appreciate the distinctive benefits of working with a firm which offers a cohesive and focused approach. Much of our work has a significant international element. The firm has 65 partners and 49 trainee solicitors and has a total staff of 489. The firm’s areas of practice are broadly defined under the four main headings of corporate; property; litigation and dispute resolution; and private client.
We recruit about 25 trainees each year and are able to encourage individual development within our training programme. Applications are welcomed from both law and non-law undergraduates expecting to graduate with at least a 2:1. For more information regarding Training Contracts or Vacation Scheme please visit our website www.macfarlanes.com |
Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw LLP
Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP are one of the largest legal practices in the world. We serve our international client base from 13 offices worldwide, including representation in the world's major financial centre: London, Paris, Frankfurt and New York.
We have over 1300 lawyers worldwide, who have a reputation for delivering pragmatic commercial advice and are praised for their professionalism. Trainee solicitors will have a kaleidoscope of opportunities working with a wide range of leading global brands whilst undertaking complex multi-party and multi-jurisdictional transactions. |
Olswang
Olswang is a leading law firm, which has a predominant focus on the media, communications, technology and real estate sectors. Established in 1981, the firm has a total staff of over 550 and has offices in London, the Thames Valley, Brussels and Berlin. For the past three years Olswang has been ranked among the top 100 UK employers in The Sunday Times' 100 Best Companies to Work For.
The Training Contract
Training Contracts at Olswang consist of four six-month seats in each of our Corporate, Real Estate, Litigation and Media, Communications and Technology groups. All trainees are assigned a mentor, usually a partner, to assist and advise throughout the training contract. In-house lectures supplement general training and six-monthly appraisals assess development. Our first year trainee starting salary is currently £30,000 (for London).
For further information regarding any application please contact our Trainee Solicitor Recruitment team on 020 7067 3054 or traineesolicitor@olswang.com. |
Pinsent Masons
Pinsent Masons is a top 15 UK law firm that is committed to sector-focused growth through its Core Sectors approach. This approach aligns the firm to specific business sectors to achieve market-leading positions. As a result, the firm has developed a successful and innovative approach to building strong, broad and deep corporate relationships. Client service is at the cornerstone of Pinsent Masons' business and the firm works with a substantial range of FTSE 100, Fortune 500 and Public Sector organisations.
- Size of Firm: 260 + partners and a 900 + legal team
Location: Based in London, Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds and Manchester - Areas of Work: The firm's sector based approach to business growth offers trainees a chance to get wide exposure to key industries as well as developing specialist legal expertise. Main areas of work include: Banking & Finance, Corporate, Dispute Resolution & Litigation, Employment, Insurance & Reinsurance, International Construction & Energy, Outsourcing, Technology and Commercial, Pensions, Projects, Property, Tax and UK Construction & Engineering.
- Degree Discipline required: Any degree discipline. Minimum 2.1 required Financial Assistance: In England and Wales, CPE/LPC fees are paid. In addition to this, maintenance grants are offered.
- Contact: City Point, One Ropemaker Street London EC2Y 9AH, Tel: (0) 20 7418 7000
Method of Application: Apply on line at www.pinsentmasons.com/graduate |
Shearman & Sterling
About Shearman & Sterling LLP
Shearman & Sterling, one of the world’s premier global law firms, has been at the forefront of the legal profession for well over a century. Today we are one of the largest legal practices in the world, with a significant European client base. Our reputation, skills and expertise are recognized throughout the world. Headquartered in New York, we have more than 1,000 lawyers practising in 19 offices worldwide.
Our London office, established in 1972, is a leading practice covering all aspects of English and US corporate and finance law.
Life in the London Office
Our firm’s ethos calls for trainees who relish hard work and intellectual challenge. You will be ambitious, keen to assume professional responsibility from the start of your training and determined to have a successful career in a first-class law firm.
Our Main Areas of Work
The firm has 10 practice areas in London:
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Project Development & Finance
- Banking, consisting of:
- Capital Markets
- Derivatives
- Acquisition Finance
- Structured Finance
- Property
- International Arbitration & Litigation
- Antitrust/Competition
- International Tax
- Financial Institutions Advisory & Asset Management
- Executive Compensation & Employee Benefits
- Intellectual Property
Salaries and Benefits
At Shearman & Sterling, we offer highly competitive salary and benefits packages. We pay future trainees a maintenance grant of £7,000, paid in two instalments (September and February). We also cover Postgraduate Diploma in Law (PgDL) and Legal Practice Course (LPC) fees.
Salaries payable to trainees are currently:
- 1st year £36,500
- 2nd year £39,000
- On qualifying £72,000
Other benefits include medical cover, dental cover, permanent disability insurance, life assurance cover, season ticket loan (interest free), paid mobile phone and BlackBerry rental, in-house restaurant, childcare vouchers and subsidised gym membership.
In addition, we have a discretionary annual performance bonus scheme.
Link to the S&S Website - http://www.shearman.com
Link to the Shearman & Sterling graduate recruitment brochure and on-line application form - http://www.shearman.com/recruitinguk/ |
Simmons & Simmons
Our firm
Simmons & Simmons is a leading international law firm with over 1,000 legal staff. We have a reputation for offering a superior legal service, wherever and whenever it is required. Our lawyers’ high quality advice and the positive working atmosphere in our 21 international offices have won admiration and praise from both the legal community and our business clients.
We offer our clients a full range of legal services across numerous industry sectors. We have a particular focus on the world’s fastest growing sectors, that is: Energy & Infrastructure; Financial Institutions; Life Sciences; and Technology. We provide a wide choice of service areas in which our lawyers can specialise. These include Corporate & Commercial; Communications, Outsourcing & Technology; Dispute Resolution; Employment & Benefits; EU & Competition; Financial Markets; IP; Projects; Real Estate; Taxation & Pensions.
Becoming a lawyer
Trainees sit with either a partner or a lawyer and you will quickly find yourself at the centre of the action and that your legal and overall professional skills are growing daily. Our six month seat system enables you to gain hands on experience in four different areas of our business, working with other lawyers, gaining knowledge in different service areas and dealing with our all important clients.
Our training programme is constantly evolving to build the skills you will need to be successful in the fast moving world of international business. We provide experience in a range of areas of law and a balanced approach to gaining the knowledge, expertise and abilities you will need to qualify in the practice area of your choice.
Trainee Profile
We are looking for ambitious, focused individuals with law or non-law degrees. Currently we are looking to recruit 50 trainees to commence training in September 2009/March 2010. Academic achievement is key, and you will need to achieve at least a 2.1 in your degree, but we also want rounded individuals who can fit smoothly into our teams as trainees need to work with people in our international offices and with clients throughout the world.
Email: recruitment@simmons-simmons.com
Web: www.simmons-simmons.com/traineelawyers |
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Skadden is one of the leading law firms in the world with approximately 1,700 lawyers in 22 offices across the globe. Our clients include corporate, industrial, financial institutions and government entities. Skadden was one of the first law firms to establish full-time U.S. lawyers resident in Europe develop complementary local practices across key jurisdictions and establish a pan-European cross-border capability. The Skadden approach is founded on exceptional transaction management.
The London office is the gateway to our European practice where we have over 170 lawyers dedicated to the execution of top-end corporate and securities work. We are one of the most successful law firms in Europe, advising on the biggest and most complicated cross-border deals and international arbitrations. We have handled matters in nearly every country in the greater European region, and in Africa and the Middle East. We consistently rank as a leader in mergers and acquisitions and private equity (mergermarket) and were recently voted 'Global Law Firm of the Year' (Chambers and Partners) and 'Best U.S. Law Firm in London' (Legal Business).
Types of work undertaken and clients
Lawyers in the London office focus primarily on corporate transactions, including domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, private equity, capital markets, leveraged finance and banking, tax, corporate restructuring, and energy and projects. We also advise in international arbitration, litigation and regulatory matters.
Other office locations
America and North America: Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Palo Alto, San Francisco, Toronto, Washington DC, Wilmington
Europe: Brussels, Frankfurt, London, Moscow, Munich, Paris, Vienna
Far East: Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo
Australia: Sydney
Who should apply
The London office of Skadden is now actively recruiting a small number of high-caliber UK graduates from any discipline to join our highly successful team. We are looking for candidates who combine intellectual ability with energy, enthusiasm, creativity and a demonstrable ability to rise to a challenge and to work with others towards a common goal.
Training programme
The Firm can offer you the chance to develop your career in a uniquely rewarding and professional environment. You will join a close-knit but diverse team in which you will be given ample opportunity to work on complex matters, almost all with an international aspect, while benefiting from highly personalised training and supervision in an informal and friendly environment.
The first year of the training contract will be mandatory and comprise six months in corporate and six months in international litigation and arbitration. The second year enjoys some flexibility and will give you the choice of departments to ensure that you gain maximum exposure to those areas of personal interest.
Full details of sponsorship/funding
The Firm pays for GDL/CPE and LPC course fees and provides a £7,000 grant for each course. First year trainee salaries are currently £35,000, rising to £40,000 in the second year.
Details of vacation schemes
Skadden offers the opportunity for second year law and non-law students to experience the culture and working environment of the Firm through two week vacation placements that take place during Easter and over the summer months. |
Taylor Wessing
Taylor Wessing is a rare thing in the legal world – a European commercial law firm that’s big enough to attract the headline-grabbing work, yet small enough to make all of our people feels involved. What that means for our trainees can be summed up in one word. Responsibility. As much as you can handle, and it starts as soon as you join us.
You’ll be working with clients who are among the best at what they do and colleagues who can say the same. Our team is made up of 210 partners and over 1000 staff based primarily in the UK, Germany and France. Regarded as “one of the first names outside the Magic Circle”, we have a particular reputation for our corporate, intellectual property, finance and real estate work, and offer a full service that includes tax, employment and litigation & dispute resolution advice. This breadth of expertise has clear benefits for our clients as they can come to us whatever issue they’re facing. It also makes life extremely rewarding for our trainees.
Location
Berlin, Brussels, Cambridge, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, London, Munich, Paris and representative offices in Alicante and Shanghai.
Trainees, training and development
We require a minimum of ABB grades at A Level and a 2.1 degree. We look for team players with excellent communication skills, ambition and a willingness to learn. Applicants also need to demonstrate commitment to a career in law and a genuine interest in business. Trainees spend six months in four different departments, with the possibility of a secondment to another office or a client.
Vacation scheme
38 places are available for vacation schemes during the summer. We also host open days during the spring.
Further information
Graduate Recruitment department
T: 020 7300 7000
E: graduate@taylorwessing.com
W: www.taylorwessing.com/graduate |
Watson, Farley & Williams
The Firm
Watson, Farley & Williams was founded in 1982 in the City of London. It has grown rapidly to 68 Partners and a total staff of over 420 since this time (220 fee earners). We now have offices in London, Athens, Paris, New York, Rome, Singapore, Bangkok & Hamburg. We can advise on English, French, Russian, Italian, Thai, New York and US Federal Law. The close working relationship between our offices enables our clients, wherever they are based, to utilize the expertise of the whole firm. The firm is able to provide an integrated, multi-jurisdictional service in connection with those centres where offices are located, and worldwide through an extensive network of specialist correspondent lawyers. In each of our offices, our lawyers have expertise in the laws of the local jurisdictions and a knowledge and understanding of local business customs and culture.
Areas of Work
The firm is divided into four international practice groups: International Corporate, International Finance, International Litigation and International Tax. These groups are not divided by location but work together internationally. The International Corporate Group is divided into five sub-groups: Corporate, Central and Eastern Europe, Employment/Immigration, EU Competition / Intellectual Property and Commercial Property. The International Finance Group capabilities can broadly be split into specific shipping expertise including shipping finance and general finance expertise. The International Litigation Group handles litigation and arbitration, with a particular emphasis upon the banking, maritime, energy and aviation sectors. The firm has particular experience and specialization in managing multi-jurisdiction ship finance enforcement proceedings. The International Tax Group advise in structuring tax based transactions (both direct and indirect and, both asset and non-asset related) and their implications.
Training & Development
The firm looks to recruit graduates who, in addition, to a sound academic background, exhibit energy, ambition, self-assurance, initiative and commercial awareness. Each trainee undertakes six four-month seats; we aim to seat trainees with a partner or a senior assistant from day one. Currently, a trainee can expect to have a four-month period in Paris, Piraeus, Singapore & Bangkok. Each trainee will have at least one seat in one of our more specialized areas such as tax, employment or EC competition. Trainees undertake professional skills training during their training contract. Compulsory courses are organized in-house as accredited Law Society courses and are tailored to meet the firm’s main practice areas. We also hold regular in-house seminars at which we invite guest speakers and partners to speak. Additionally, each group holds seminars and workshops specifically for trainees spending time with them.
Ratio of Law to Non-Law is in the organization - 2:1
Number of vacancies in 2009 - 12
Salary - £29,000 (Trainees joining Sept. 2006)
Application method: Online Application Form @ www.wfw.com
Application deadlines for both law & non-law students : Training Contract: 31st July 2007
Application contact details:
Name: Danielle Black, Graduate Manager
Address: Earl Place, 15 Appold Street, London, EC2A 2HB
Telephone: 020 7814 8236
Fax: 020 7814 8017
Email: dblack@wfw.com
Website: www.wfw.com |
Wragge & Co
| Wragge & Co is a major UK law firm based in Birmingham with a substantial national and international client base including over 250 listed companies and 60 local authorities. In recognition of our progressive personnel policies the firm was placed 19th in The Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For 2002, the highest placed law firm, was voted "The Law Firm With the Best Training Environment" at The Trainee Solicitors Awards 2001 and was 'Best in the Land' according to the Legal Business 2001 Assistant Survey. |
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