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Meet the legal minds
behind the headlines
Law Fair
Monday 19 October 2015, 1–4pm
East Midlands Conference Centre
University Park
Careers and Employability Service
www.nottingham.ac.uk/careers
Careers and Employability Service
www.nottingham.ac.uk/careers
Welcome to the Law Fair
It is great to see you at this year’s Law Fair. With more than
70 firms attending, you can find out about a wide range of
legal practice areas and sector opportunities with local,
regional, national and international firms. Many of the firms
attending will have work placements, open days, insight
events and training contracts available.
EXCEPTIONAL
EXCEPTIONAL
LAWYERS.
WITHOUT
LAWYERS.
EXCEPTION.
Here are some ways in which you can make the most of the fair.
As well as law firms attending, representatives from course
providers will have information about the Graduate Diploma
in Law (GDL), the LPC and the BPTC. They can also tell you
about the destinations of students who undertake their courses
and the employment they have secured on completion, for
example paralegal, trainee solicitor and pupil barrister. This
will be particularly helpful to those of you who do not secure a
pupillage or training contract prior to commencing the courses.
If you are thinking about a career in law, then some background
research on the firms and what they do will help you get much
more out of the day. A little research goes a long way and will
make it easier for you to decide whether or not the firm is right
for you.
In addition to the information provided by law firms and
legal education providers, you will also be able to collect
your personal copies of legal directories at the fair such
as Chambers Student Guide and the Training Contract &
Pupillage Handbook.
When talking to representatives, be confident, smile, shake
hands and make eye contact. Be yourself and don’t waffle, have
some purposeful questions to ask. If you can’t think of any right
now, these questions will help you get the conversation going:
And after the fair, what next? Remember, we the Careers and
Employability Service do much more than organise events like
this; we are also here to help you with your ideas, plans and
applications, even if you are not sure what you want to do next.
If you would like to talk to us, then book an appointment at
www.nottingham.ac.uk/careers/appointments
• What do you look for in trainees? What skills? What
attributes?
• What has happened to trainees who qualified with you in
the last few years and what do they do now?
• How many trainees do you take each year and how does
this impact on the trainee’s learning and professional
development?
We hope you enjoy the fair and look forward to seeing you
again soon.
Nalayini Thambar
Director of Careers and Employability
• How are trainees allocated seats and supported during
their training?
• What is the work-life balance like? What is the social life
like?
WITHOUT
EXCEPTION.
FOR
OPPORTUNITIESvisit
VISIT
for GRADUATE
graduate opportunities
MACFARLANES.COM/CAREERS
macfarlanes.com/graduates
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Careers and Employability Service
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Contents
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Welcome
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King & Wood Mallesons
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Floor plan
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Kirkland & Ellis International LLP
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Latham & Watkins
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LawCareers.Net (LC.N)
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Lawyer 2B
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Linklaters
Employer profiles
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Addleshaw Goddard
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AllAboutLaw.co.uk
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Allen & Overy
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Anthony Collins Solicitors Ltd
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Ashurst
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Baker & McKenzie
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Barbri International Ltd
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Berwin Leighton Paisner
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Bird & Bird
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Bond Dickinson
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Bristows
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Browne Jacobson
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Burges Salmon
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CILEx Law School
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The City Law School
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Clifford Chance
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Clyde & Co
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CMS Cameron McKenna
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Cooley (UK) LLP
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Covington & Burling LLP
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De Montfort Law School
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Dechert LLP
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Dentons
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DLA Piper
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DWF
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Eversheds
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Fieldfisher
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Freeths
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Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
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Gateley LLP
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Government Legal Service (GLS)
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Harrison Clark Rickerbys
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Herbert Smith Freehills
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Higgs & Sons
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Hogan Lovells
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Holman Fenwick Willan
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Ince & Co
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Irwin Mitchell
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Jones Day
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Macfarlanes
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Mayer Brown
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Mills & Reeve LLP
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Mishcon de Reya
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Morgan Lewis
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Nabarro
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Norton Rose Fulbright
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Nottingham Law School
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Olswang
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Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
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Pinsent Masons
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PwC Legal
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Reed Smith
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RPC
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Shearman & Sterling LLP
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Shoosmiths
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Simmons & Simmons
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Slaughter and May
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Staffordshire University Law School
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Stephenson Harwood
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Targetjobs Law
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Taylor Wessing
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The Lex 100
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TLT Solicitors
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Travers Smith
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The University of Law
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Vinson & Elkins RLLP
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Watson Farley & Williams
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Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
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White & Case LLP
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Wilkin Chapman
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Withers
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Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co
Whether you have no idea or a clear idea, our
experts will help you every step of the way
What are you waiting for?
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Addleshaw Goddard
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Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
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Pinsent Masons
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AllAboutLaw.co.uk
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Gateley LLP
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PwC Legal
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Allen & Overy
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Government Legal Service (GLS)
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Reed Smith
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Anthony Collins Solicitors Ltd
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Harrison Clark Rickerbys
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RPC
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Ashurst
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Herbert Smith Freehills
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Shearman & Sterling LLP
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Baker & McKenzie
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Higgs & Sons
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Shoosmiths
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Barbri International Ltd
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Hogan Lovells
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Simmons & Simmons
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Berwin Leighton Paisner
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Holman Fenwick Willan
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Slaughter and May
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Bird & Bird
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Ince & Co
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Staffordshire University Law School
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Bond Dickinson
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Irwin Mitchell
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Stephenson Harwood
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Bristows
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Jones Day
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Targetjobs Law
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Browne Jacobson
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King & Wood Mallesons
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Taylor Wessing
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Burges Salmon
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Kirkland & Ellis International LLP
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The Lex 100
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CILEx Law School
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Latham & Watkins
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TLT Solicitors
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The City Law School
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LawCareers.Net (LC.N)
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Travers Smith
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Clifford Chance
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Lawyer 2B
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The University of Law
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Clyde & Co
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Linklaters
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Vinson & Elkins RLLP
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CMS Cameron McKenna
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Macfarlanes
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Watson Farley & Williams
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Cooley (UK) LLP
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Mayer Brown
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Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
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Covington & Burling LLP
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Mills & Reeve LLP
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White & Case LLP
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De Montfort Law School
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Mishcon de Reya
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Wilkin Chapman
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Dechert LLP
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Morgan Lewis
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Withers
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Dentons
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Morrison & Foerster
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Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co
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DLA Piper
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Nabarro
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DWF
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Norton Rose Fulbright
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Eversheds
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Nottingham Law School
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Fieldfisher
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Olswang
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Freeths
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Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
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We offer a full range of commercial legal services
from our offices in London, Leeds, Manchester,
Doha, Dubai, Hong Kong, Muscat and Singapore,
and through a world-wide network of strong
relationships with chosen firms in North America,
Europe and other key and emerging jurisdictions.
www.addleshawgoddard.com/graduates
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Anthony Collins Solicitors is a great choice if
you’re looking to join a principled firm and want to
take the lead on high quality work.
We are committed to helping you develop and
succeed as a trainee, and we provide the support
and resources to help you achieve your potential.
You’ll be allocated an appraiser at the start of your
training contract, as well as a trainee manager for
each seat. Your appraiser will offer support and
guidance about which areas would complement
your plans for the future, making sure you gain the
necessary experience and skills.
When we asked our trainees why they chose
ACS over other firms, they told us it was because
of our excellent client care and because we have
a social conscience and are actually prepared
to do something about it. They also said they
were given more hands-on experience and
considerably more responsibility than their peers
at other firms.
• A good work/life balance.
• The approachability of senior colleagues,
including partners.
www.anthonycollins.com
We asked what they considered to be the
firm’s best features, and these are some of their
responses:
• the chance to do high-level commercial work
in one seat and publicly-funded private client
work in another.
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AllAboutLaw.co.uk is the leading online resource
for aspiring solicitors.
AllAboutLaw.co.uk provide students with a wealth
of careers and employability advice, including
training contract and vacation scheme application
tips, guidance on postgraduate study and
recommendations on how to increase commercial
awareness.
Moreover, AllAboutLaw.co.uk’s expert editorial
team provide students with breaking industry
news and features, allowing them to keep abreast
of the most important developments.
allaboutlaw.co.uk
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With 28 offices across the world’s leading
financial and resource centres in Europe, AsiaPacific, Middle East and the USA, Ashurst offers
the scale to attract global mandates. We operate
at the cutting edge of the financial, resources
and infrastructure, corporate and new economy
markets, offering advice that’s as commercially
astute as it is technically accurate in diverse areas
of law including disputes, competition, mergers
and acquisitions and finance. It’s that incisiveness
that makes us different from other elite firms: we
share our client’s ambitions and the depth of our
insight allows us to cut to the heart of their issues
with speed and clarity.
They also give students access to an extensive list
of opportunities at the top law firms in the UK and
conduct interviews with current trainee solicitors,
graduate recruiters and partners to find out what
students need to do in order to enjoy a successful
career in law.
We take exactly the same approach with our
people: we’re interested in understanding each
other, finding new and better ways to bring out
each individual’s talents, and simply enjoying
the interaction with other high-calibre, down-toearth people. It’s a strong, shared culture that will
enable you to apply your intellect, develop yourself
and thrive as an international lawyer.
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Allen & Overy is a leading international law firm
with approximately 5,000 employees in 46 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 one and
two in over 500 categories by the Chambers and
Partners directory, the highest of the global elite
group of international law firms. This, above all,
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explains why Allen & Overy remains a leader in
its field.
Interested in a career in law? Want to find out
more about open days, vacation programs and
training contract opportunities at one of the
world’s leading commercial law firms? Allen
and Overy LLP have a long history of recruiting
Nottingham University graduates and so if you
would like to learn more about us we would love
the opportunity to meet with you!
aograduate.com
careers.ashurst.com
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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, recent
secondees have spent 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 opening in 1961. With more than 400 legal
professionals, we have a substantial presence
in the legal and business community. We deliver
high-quality local solutions across a broad range
of practices and global advice in conjunction with
our international offices. Our client base consists
primarily of multinational corporates, based in the
UK and elsewhere, and financial institutions.
ordinate, complex, cross-border transactions for
our clients. As a full-service office, we cover all
the practices expected of a major law firm in the
UK, many of which are acclaimed and marketleading.
www.bakermckenzie.com/londongraduates
As may be expected of a firm with a very strong
international client base, we have considerable
expertise in acting on, and co-ordinating, crossborder transactions and disputes. Our corporate
and finance teams regularly advise on, and co-
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Barbri International Ltd is the market-leading
provider of the Bar Review programme that
prepares law graduates and lawyers to sit the US
state bar examinations. Becoming a US attorney
is an option because many law graduates (with a
three or four year full-time common law degree)
or fully qualified lawyers are eligible to sit the New
York or California bar examination.
www.barbri-international.com
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Bond Dickinson is a full service law firm with a
focus on eight sectors: energy, waste and natural
resources; retail and fast moving consumer
goods (FMCG); real estate; financial institutions;
chemicals and manufacturing; transport and
infrastructure; insurance and private wealth.
We are one of the leading FTSE advisors outside
London advising in excess of 40 FTSE 350
companies and many of the largest businesses in
the country.
Over 700 fee earners, including 140 Partners
provide the capability, experience and expertise to
service our national client base.
We have a unique legal footprint across the
UK with seven office locations: Aberdeen,
Bristol, Leeds, London, Newcastle, Plymouth,
and Southampton. We’re on the ground in key
financial centres and industry locations.
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.
Our approach to trainee recruitment is one of
long-term investment. We’re looking for our future
generation of leaders and technical experts.
Trainees at Bond Dickinson have an opportunity to
spend six months in four business groups, gaining
a real breadth of experience along the way. Your
personal preferences are taken into consideration
during the seat rotation process.
bonddickinson.com
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Berwin Leighton Paisner is an international, full
service law firm with over 840 lawyers, including
approximately 200 partners, delivering client
projects in 128 countries via our 12 international
offices. The quality of service we provide to our
clients has been recognised with eight law firm
of the year awards since 2004. 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.
During the two-year training contract you will
work on real projects from the outset, rotating
through four six-month projects in different parts
of the business. You might, for example, complete
a client or international secondment, run your
own real estate file and attend a tribunal. You
will receive in-depth department training at the
beginning and during each of those four seats,
which will give you the legal know-how needed
to get stuck in to that specific department. You
will have an allocated partner mentor throughout,
career support from a dedicated training team and
can expect to receive 232 hours of training by the
time you are a qualified lawyer.
www.blplaw.com/trainee
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Bristows is a medium-sized law firm that handles
the kind of work you might normally associate
with only the very largest firms. We have built
up a client list that includes leading businesses
from a variety of sectors, whether global
corporate, growing start-ups, charities or financial
institutions. 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.
Bristows might be known as one of the foremost
intellectual property firms in the UK, but this
only tells part of the story. Our lawyers are also
recognised as leading authorities in a wide variety
of other legal disciplines and as a firm we offer
a true breadth of expertise. These are our core
practice areas:
• intellectual property
• information technology
• corporate
Each year we ask up to 10 graduates to join our
team. The best way to get an idea of what
we’re like as a firm is to come along and meet our
people at the Law Fair.
training.bristows.com
• commercial disputes
• real estate
• regulatory
• EU and competition
• media and marketing
• employment
• tax
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Bird & Bird is an international law firm, with a rare
and invaluable grasp of strategic commercial
issues. We combine exceptional legal expertise
with deep industry knowledge and refreshingly
creative thinking, to help clients achieve their
commercial goals. We have over 1,100 lawyers
in 27 offices across Europe, the Middle East and
Asia, as well as close ties with firms in other parts
of the world.
In 1998, we became one of the first law firms
to organise itself around key sectors so that we
could share our in-depth industry knowledge
more effectively across the firm. Today, we’re
involved in a broad range of sectors, from
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aviation and defence through to communications
and electronics, energy and utilities, food and
beverage, financial services, as well as IT, life
sciences, media and sport.
We have 25 places on our summer placement
scheme 2016 and 18 training contracts available
for 2018.
www.twobirds.com
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Browne Jacobson is a full service national
law firm with offices in Birmingham, Exeter,
London, Manchester and Nottingham – with
an impressive client portfolio, from international
blue chip corporates, NHS trusts, public sector
organisations, local authorities and major insurers.
We’re 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.
We take a true partnership approach to working
with clients and our commitment to client service
excellence was formally recognised in 2014 when
we became the first UK law firm to be awarded
a three star rating by Investor in Customers
followed by the Law Society’s Excellence in Client
Service Award 2014.
You’ll get great training, a friendly and
supportive working environment and real career
opportunities. Our trainee solicitors are given
quality work and exposure to clients from early
on, but are supported in achieving results and
recognised for their contribution. We cover the
fees for your GDL and LPC, including a £5,000
maintenance grant.
Apply online for our training contracts and
summer work placement scheme online.
www.brownejacobson.com
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Burges Salmon is consistently ranked among
the UK’s most successful commercial law
firms. 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, The Nuclear
Decommissioning Authority and FirstGroup.
We offer a cohesive, communicative environment
which results in strong working relationships
right across the firm and an enhanced service for
our clients. The quality of our expertise is widely
recognised across all our main departments
including corporate and financial institutions,
commercial, dispute resolution, environment and
planning, real estate and private client.
We offer the opportunity to work with exceptional
clients on outstanding cases against the
backdrop of Bristol; consistently ranked as having
the highest quality of life in England and Wales.
We are currently looking for 30 trainee solicitors
to join us in 2018. We also offer Easter and
summer vacation schemes that are part of the
selection process for training contract.
Direct applications are open until 31 July.
We also run insight days for first year students
and non-law students who are interested in
finding out more about a career in law.
www.burges-salmon.com/careers
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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.
Our firm advises clients on every continent and
in every major business centre in the world.
With thousands of lawyers working from dozens
of offices in nearly thirty countries, we support
some of the world’s largest companies in multijurisdictional, cross-practice transactions of
increasing size and complexity.
Our people are as diverse and distinct as the
work they do, and come from a whole range of
educational backgrounds. What they have in
common is a collaborative and adaptive culture
that brings unparalleled insight and formidable
intellect to bear on the most intricate and
interesting of legal problems.
environment. One where your unique talents will
have the space to shine, develop and make a real
impact
www.cliffordchancegraduates.com
Our offer goes much further than a vacation
scheme, or a job when you graduate. It’s the
chance to be a part of work that permanently
alters the landscape of international business.
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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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 a specialist lawyer through the CILEx
Graduate Fast-track Diploma (GFTD) route costs
approximately £3,000.
Combine the GFTD with three years paralegal
work experience and you are a chartered legal
executive. Judge, advocate, partner, independent
practitioner you could be all of these as a
chartered legal executive.
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. We want you to
succeed without the millstone of debt that’s why
our course fees are affordable (we’re a not for
profit organisation) and you can be in full-time
employment while studying.
Want to become a solicitor? The specially
designed open learning GDL and LPC
programmes 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, which makes this one of the
most affordable LPCs on the market.
CILEx Law School prides itself on being
professional and the UK’s most accessible law
school. We believe in treating students fairly, and
you’ll notice the difference as soon as you enrol.
www.cilexlawschool.ac.uk
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Clyde & Co is an international law firm with a
pioneering heritage and a resolute focus on
its core sectors of aviation, energy, healthcare,
infrastructure, industrials, insurance, professional
practices, shipping and trade. With over 1,500
lawyers operating from 40 (and counting) offices
and associated offices across six continents, the
firm advises corporations, financial institutions,
private individuals and governments on a wide
range of contentious and transactional matters.
careers.clydeco.com/trainees
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The City Law School is one of London’s major law
schools offering an impressive range of academic
and professional courses.
We are 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 or where they are from.
Our prestigious Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL)
has an unrivalled reputation within the profession
and was one of the first courses for non-law
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graduates. Our Graduate Entry LLB (GE LLB)
enables non-law graduates to gain an LLB in
just two years. Both courses enable progression
to the required professional legal skills courses
the Legal Practice Course (LPC) or the Bar
Professional Training Course (BPTC), both taught
at our Gray’s Inn Place campus.
The Master of Laws (LLM) at The City Law School
is a flexible programme which enables students to
develop an understanding of specialist or linked
areas of the law. Students are able to select from
a range of different programmes that can be
tailored according to their needs.
Our academic staff have a wealth of expert
teaching and professional legal experience. Their
student-focused approach and genuine passion
for the study of law gives you one-to-one access
to some of the best legal minds available today.
www.city.ac.uk/law
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CMS Cameron McKenna forms part of a leading
network of firms known as CMS. We have
59 offices across 33 countries, with the most
extensive footprint in Europe of any other firm.
Our lawyers provide advice to our international
client base across all types of commercial law,
including banking, finance, corporate, dispute
resolution, employment and pensions, energy,
interlectual property, private equity, public
procurement, real estate and tax.
We take a genuine, client-focused approach
that attracts many of the world’s leading
corporations, financial institutions and government
organisations. We advise on a range of
transactions and issues, and have the expertise
to understand clients’ needs and concerns, no
matter what field they’re in.
Our two-week vacation schemes offer the
opportunity for a snapshot into life at CMS. We
offer a varied programme which encompasses
plenty of training and social opportunities, as well
as involvement in real-life matters for your practice
group.
Our training contracts (in London, Bristol,
Aberdeen, Edinburgh or Glasgow) last two years
and feature four six-month seats. One of these will
be spent outside your home office, at one of our
international or regional offices or on secondment
to one of our top clients based in London or
Europe. Each seat will give you real responsibility
on high-profile, multi-jurisdictional matters,
plenty of client contact and loads of exposure to
partners.
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Cooley is an international, commercial law firm
with pre-eminent technology, life sciences,
fund formation and venture capital practices
and is best known for its representation of high
growth innovative companies. Cooley has 850
lawyers across 12 offices and more than 1,800
employees worldwide. Cooley’s lawyers solve
legal issues for entrepreneurs, investors, financial
institutions and established companies. Some
of the clients we serve include: Facebook, eBay,
LinkedIn, Bluetooth and Google.
Our London office offers around four trainee
positions in one intake per year. Our smaller
teams lead to high levels of responsibility. Working
alongside and learning from some of the best
lawyers in their fields gives trainees a fantastic
start to their professional lives. Supplementing
your hands-on learning and development will be
our tailored training programme. Regular sessions
are designed to increase your practice-based
technical knowledge and skills, as well as your
understanding of finance, business development
and commercial considerations.
In addition to our trainee positions, we also offer
six to eight places on our two-week long summer
placements.
To apply you will need to demonstrate academic
excellence (minimum upper-second class), 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.
www.cooley.com
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Dechert is a global specialist law firm. Focused
on sectors with the greatest complexities, legal
intricacies and highest regulatory demands, we
excel in delivering practical commercial judgement
and deep legal expertise for high-stakes matters.
In an increasingly challenging environment,
clients look to us to serve them in ways that are
faster, shaper and leaner without compromising
excellence. We are relentless in serving our
clients and delivering the best of the firm to
them with entrepreneurial energy and seamless
collaboration in a way that is distinctively Dechert.
Our lawyers in London are active in all Dechert’s
core practice areas of corporate and securities,
financial services and investment management,
finance and real estate, while-collar defence,
complex commercial litigation, international
arbitration and intellectual property, as well
as employment, international trade and EU
government affairs, EU and UK competition, and
tax.
careers.dechert.com
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Covington & Burling LLP was founded in
Washington, D.C. nearly a century ago. Today, the
firm has over 800 lawyers globally across offices
in Beijing, Brussels, London, Los Angeles, New
York, San Francisco, Seoul, Shanghai, Silicon
Valley and Washington. Covington’s
London office, overlooking the Royal Courts of
Justice, was established over 25 years ago.
We offer services across a wide range of practice
areas, advising clients on their most challenging
and complex matters. Most of the work has an
international element, and all our practice groups
operate across borders.
Covington has been rated a Top Ranked Leading
Law Firm in Chambers UK 2015 and appears
in The Lawyer Top 30 International Law Firm,
as well as Legal Business Global 100 surveys.
At Covington and Burling, you will have an
opportunity to work on cutting-edge deals
for international and UK corporates such as
Microsoft, Merck and Samsung, Fortune 100
businesses and leading technology, life sciences
and media companies.
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.
www.cov.com
We are currently recruiting for summer scheme
2016 and training contracts starting in September
2018. We aim to distinguish our trainee
programme by offering a genuine support network
which includes assigning associate buddies and
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Dentons is a global law firm driven to provide
a competitive edge in an increasingly complex
and interconnected world. A top 20 firm on the
Acritas 2014 Global Elite Brand Index, Dentons
is committed to challenging the status quo in
delivering consistent and uncompromising quality
in new and inventive ways. Dentons’ clients now
benefit from 3,000 lawyers and professionals
in more than 80 locations spanning 50-plus
countries. With a legacy of legal experience that
dates back to 1742 and builds on the strengths
of our foundational firms’ Salans, Fraser Milner
Casgrain (FMC), SNR Denton and McKenna
Long and Aldridge the firm serves the local,
regional and global needs of private and public
clients.
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We are an experienced provider of first class legal
education and training, offering the Legal Practice
Course (LPC) full-time and part-time and the
Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) both 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.
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• Support from a friendly and caring staff team
with recent practical experience and invaluable
links with both commercial and traditional
practices.
• The Law School’s integrated Law Library, an
exclusive LPC library and private computer
resource room.
www.dmu.ac.uk
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DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers
located in more than 30 countries throughout the
Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe and the Middle
East, positioning us to help companies with their
legal needs anywhere in the world.
We 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.
Unlike many law firms, we are organised to
provide clients with a range of essential business
advice, not just on large scale mergers and
acquisitions and banking deals but also on people
and employment, commercial dealings, litigation,
insurance, real estate, IT, intellectual property and
plans for restructuring.
subject. The closing date for applications is 31
January 2016.
www.dlapipergraduates.co.uk
We offer approximately 160 placements across
our UK offices. Participants spend time with two
different departments and are fully immersed into
life at DLA Piper. Candidates should have ABB at
A level or at least five highers in the A – B band or
35 points in the IB from the six chosen subjects
and a upper-second at degree which can be any
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Described by market commentators as ‘blazing a
trail’ DWF is one of the UK’s largest law firms and
has an award-winning reputation for client service
excellence and effective operational management.
We are recruiting for our 2018 training contract
opportunities as well as our 2016 vacation
schemes.
www.dwf.co.uk/join-us/graduate
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Freeths LLP is one of the UK’s leading national
law firms. 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 work in close
partnership with clients, providing positive,
practical solutions and clear, comprehensive
advice. We are committed to continuous
improvement and our increasing success as a
business is built on achieving success for our
clients.
Employing over 2,500 people across 12 locations
in the UK and Ireland, the firm has core strengths
in insurance, corporate and banking, real estate
and litigation, and in-depth industry expertise in
six chosen sectors including central and local
government; energy and industrials; financial
services; retail, food and hospitality; technology;
and transport. Our client list includes major
household names and FTSE- listed companies.
There’s no such thing as a typical Freeths
candidate! We are open-minded and interested
in people who share this quality. Naturally we
are looking for individuals who can demonstrate
strong academic performance, we would expect
you to be able to demonstrate the ability to
achieve a upper-second class degree or higher
at university, in any degree discipline, and
have 320 UCAS points (ABB) at A Level (or
equivalent). Beyond this we want to see evidence
of teamwork, motivation and drive, communication
skills, planning and organisation, critical thinking,
commercial awareness and commitment. Both to
a career in law and to a career with Freeths.
www.freeths.co.uk/Training-Contracts
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Eversheds is one of the world’s largest full-service
law firms operating as one team, from 55 offices
in 28 countries 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.
Our people share a distinctive culture which has
client relationships at its core. Whether providing
advice which is complex or straightforward, multinational or local, an attitude of delivering only the
very best underscores everything we do.
We are committed to finding and developing
talented legal graduates interested in becoming a
solicitor. Individuals are valued for their drive and
legal expertise but also for their business advice.
We develop the same qualities in our trainees.
With a structured solicitor training programme,
our legal training contracts and graduate jobs
allow trainees to establish the skills they need to
achieve aspirations.
training too, including finance and business,
communication, presenting, business writing,
client care, professional standards and advocacy.
From trainee to fully qualified solicitor, we offer an
environment for a highly rewarding legal career
with unbounded opportunities for progression.
www.eversheds.com
The training programme allows you to focus your
technical skills in each of the various practice
groups as you rotate through four six-month
seats. You will also take part in a full programme
of personal and commercial development skills
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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. 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. 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. It doesn’t
matter what your background is, which university
you went to 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.
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Fieldfisher is a European law firm with market
leading practices in many of the world’s most
dynamic sectors including real estate, energy,
financial services, government and public
services, hotels and leisure, life sciences, media,
telecoms and technology. 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.
social enterprises as trusted advisers, providing
highly commercial advice based on an in-depth
understanding of their needs.
We operate across our international offices in
Brussels, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Paris, London,
Munich, Manchester, Silicon Valley and Shanghai.
www.fieldfisher.com
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A national practice with an excellent reputation
for commercial work and a particular expertise
in corporate, Plc, employment, property,
construction, insolvency, commercial dispute
resolution, banking, tax and shipping. We have
built an outstanding reputation across the UK
for our practical approach, sound advice, and
professional commitment to our clients. Gateley
Plc has an enviable reputation as a friendly and
sociable place to work and we are committed to
equality and diversity throughout.
www.gateleyplc.com/careers
We have more than 400 lawyers working
with large businesses like the BBC, Pearson,
Citigroup and Accenture, with government and
the public sector, and also with private wealth and
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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.
The Government Legal Service (GLS) comprises
2,000 lawyers working in the legal teams of 30
Departments of State and other Government
organisations. 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.
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.
www.gov.uk/gls
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Higgs & Sons is 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 that
our clients deserve and expect. Our size is one
of our greatest assets. We are large enough to
provide the range of skills our clients need, yet
small enough to be approachable.
in at least four major disciplines with regular
assessments. The opportunity for career
progression is also clear as more than half of our
partners trained with the firm.
www.higgsandsons.co.uk
We are looking to offer four to six training
contracts for September 2018. Deadline for
applications is 31st July 2016.
Please see our website for details of how to apply.
The firm offers a first class structured training
programme, fully supervised, based on experience
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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 and 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.
www.hcrlaw.com
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Hogan Lovells is a top global law firm, with
around 2,500 lawyers operating out of more
than 40 offices in the United States, Europe,
Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and
Australasia. Our unique balance of ambition
and approachability not only attracts prestigious
clients but creates a working culture where your
own ambition as a trainee solicitor is supported to
ensure your 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.
A warm welcome awaits you at our offices in
Worcester, Cheltenham, Birmingham, Thames
Valley, Hereford and Ross-on-Wye, as well as
our serviced offices in London.
Our two-year training contract is split into four
six-month periods of work experience known as
‘seats’ including the opportunity to apply for client
or international secondments.
We offer up to 70 places over two highly
regarded summer vacation schemes and one
winter vacation scheme. For first year law
students, we offer a one-week spring vacation
scheme along with three open days to give up to
100 students a chance to sample life at the firm.
2016 at the latest. Non-law students and non-law
graduates should apply by 31 March 2016.
Please visit our website for further information.
graduates.hoganlovells.com
Law students should apply after completion of
their penultimate year and when they have their
exam results (where applicable) and by 31 July
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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. 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
proud to be a full-service firm and we’re proud
to be able to do more for our clients. Herbert
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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.
careers.herbertsmithfreehills.com/uk/grads
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We are an international law firm with over
480 lawyers worldwide and a market-leading
reputation for advising businesses operating in
a number of industry sectors, including aviation,
commodities, energy, insurance, and shipping
and transport, 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 cases in those
sectors. We offer our trainees an environment
where they will be working alongside some of
the most respected and talented lawyers in
their field, embracing opportunities that include
international seats and client secondments.
If you are driven, enjoy challenges and are
motivated by the idea of completing a training
contract in a global environment, then we would
like to hear from you.
www.hfw.com
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With 140 years of experience, Ince & Co is one
of the oldest law firms in the city. We’ve built our
success by always taking an innovative approach,
looking for new ways to apply legal strategies
and create new law. While our international firm
and world leading reputation was initially built
on shipping and insurance, over the decades
we have successfully explored new territory and
established our expertise across a number of
specific industries.
are frequently at the forefront of developments in
contract law.
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As the first and only global law firm to be headquartered in Asia, King and Wood Mallesons is
connecting Asia to the world, and the world to
Asia. With unparalleled depth of both inbound
and outbound capability, KWM is uniquely placed
to support regional clients as they internationalise
and international clients as they look to invest or
expand into Asia. Strategically positioned in the
world’s growth markets and financial capitals,
the firm is powered by more than 2,700 lawyers
across more than 30 international offices spanning Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East and
North America. As a top 10 global firm by lawyer
numbers and the only firm in the world able to
practise People’s Republic of China, Australian,
Our open, friendly culture allows trainees to make
a real contribution and get involved in all aspects
of our practice areas.
We now have five core business groups:
aviation, energy and offshore, insurance and
reinsurance, international trade and shipping, and
Hong Kong, English, US and a significant range
of European laws, KWM is providing clients with
deep legal and commercial expertise, business
acumen and real cultural understanding on the
ground where they need it most.
www.kwm.com
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As the largest full service law firm in the UK, Irwin
Mitchell provides a diverse range of legal services
to businesses and private individuals. It has a
strong customer service culture and a high level
of client retention. The firm employs over 2200
staff, including over 200 partners, across our
10 UK offices. We have opportunities for both
legal work placements and training contracts
at our Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Leeds,
London, Manchester, Newcastle, Southampton
and Sheffield offices. With 83% of training
contracts being awarded to candidates who had
undertaken a legal work placement last year, we
would encourage all those interested in joining to
apply via the route.
irwinmitchell.com/graduates
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Kirkland & Ellis International LLP is a leading
international law firm with more than 1,600
lawyers representing global clients in 12
international offices. Kirkland is ranked in the top
10 of the Global 100 (Legal Business 2015) and
based in the heart of the city in the iconic Gherkin
building, our London office – compromising
around 160 lawyers – acts in some of the most
complex high value and high profile transactions
in Europe.
Each year we offer up to 10 training contracts and
20 summer vacation scheme places. Because
of the relatively intimate size of our London
office, you will find yourself working shoulder to
shoulder with partners and associates on most of
your projects, learning directly from some of the
leading names in their field.
www.kirkland.com/ukgraduate
We delegate responsibility on a merit-based
system, allowing our trainees to grow their
workload along with their abilities. Almost from
day one, our trainees gain hands-on experience
of interacting with clients, drafting documents
and attending court. We also encourage them
to choose their own path of specialism on their
journey through the firm. Freedom and fairness of
opportunity helps our colleagues stay motivated
and team-focused workers.
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2,400 lawyers across 42 locations worldwide. In
the London office there are approximately 230
lawyers, including around 70 partners and 40
trainees.
In London’s critical financial centre, our lawyers
address the most demanding and complex global
matters, including cross-border mergers and
acquisitions; real estate and finance transactions
(including banking, capital markets, investment
funds, private equity and structured finance);
global disputes; and regulatory matters involving
the UK, US and other authorities.
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Try our unique, non-rotational training on a
two-week placement scheme during the Winter,
Spring and Summer holidays. Applications open
1 September 2015. Apply early. We recruit on a
rolling basis and cannot guarantee availability.
Number of training contracts commencing
September 2018: 20 approx.
Approx. ratio of law and non-law trainees 40:60
Training contract starting salary in 2015: £43,000
rising to £48,000 (10 months); £52,000 (22
months); £78,000 (NQ.).
Apply for a placement to train at Jones Day.
We expect to recruit nearly all our trainees from
our placement candidates as we want them
to experience our unique training first hand.
Schemes are open to final year students of
any discipline, graduates and post-graduates.
Summer schemes are also open to penultimate
year law students. Final closing dates are: 30
October 2015 (Winter); 18 December 2015
(Spring); 15 January 2016 (Summer).
www.jonesdaylondon.com
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Latham & Watkins is a leading international
law firm with offices in the world’s major
financial, business and regulatory centres; and
internationally recognised practices across a wide
spectrum of transactional, litigation, corporate
and regulatory areas. Many of the firm’s practice
groups are award; winning industry leaders, as are
many of the firm’s partners. Central to the firm’s
global strength, Latham’s award-winning London
office is recognised for its handling of complex
cross-border matters for corporates, investment
banks, private equity houses and governments.
As one of the few firms increasing our market
share in London, we offer excellent opportunities
from qualification through to partner promotion.
The firm has ambitious plans to continue to grow
the London office, so it’s an exciting time to be
joining us!
www.lw.com
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Launching a career in the legal profession is no
simple matter; it requires knowledge, planning,
insight and dedication. If you do not follow the
rules of the game, you are seriously diminishing
your chances of success. LawCareers.Net and
The Training Contract and Pupillage Handbook
are expressly designed to support and inform you
as you work towards a legal career.
1,000 firms and chambers that are recruiting
graduates. Please visit our stand to pick up free
copies of our print publications and to sign up for
our email newsletter, LC.N Weekly.
www.lawcareers.net
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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.
Both products contain extensive editorial on the
background to law, lawyers, types of firm and
practitioner, as well as guides on different work
areas, the recruitment process and timetable, plus
news and feature content. And, most importantly,
both feature a comprehensive directory of over
full potential through a career in commercial
law. In return, we offer a wealth of opportunity,
entrepreneurial freedom and incredible rewards.
linklatersgraduates.co.uk
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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Lawyer 2B 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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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.
Oh, and get your phone out and follow us on
Twitter and Instagram @lawyer2bmag and on
Facebook (search for Lawyer 2B).
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.
Our website 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
The qualities we look for include: outstanding
academics, strong interpersonal skills, an
ambitious commercial approach, drive, motivation
and resilience.
Vacation scheme
We offer Easter and summer vacation schemes
for candidates in at least the penultimate year of
their degree.
Applications are screened on a rolling basis so
the sooner you apply, the sooner we can process
your application.
Training contract
Applications are accepted from candidates who
are in the penultimate year of a law degree, the
final year of a non-law degree and all graduates.
Applications for all our programmes open on 1
November 2015 via our website.
www.macfarlanes.com/graduates
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Now in its 11th year, The Lex 100 is the marketleading guide for law students at every stage
of their legal education. The annual Lex 100
independent survey is based on the findings of
the responses of over 3,000 trainees.
The Lex 100 offers a truly unique insight into the
vast array of training contracts in the UK market
and the guide is an invaluable resource for both
law and non-law students looking to pursue a
career in the legal profession.
The Lex 100 has a dedicated career clinic offering
advice and guidance as well as information
for first year opportunities, international seats,
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Be sure to sign up to The Lex 100 bi-monthly
newsletter and collect your free copy of the new
2015/16 edition!
Follow us on Twitter at @thelex100 and on
Facebook to keep up to date with regular
information about the UK legal market.
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Mayer Brown was one of the first law firms to
develop a global platform in recognition of the
fact that many of its clients increasingly needed
integrated, cross border legal advice. The firm is
now one of the world’s leading global law firms
with offices in key business centres across Asia,
Europe and the Americas. Mayer Brown provides
high quality legal advice and client-focused
solutions to support many of the world’s leading
businesses, governments and individuals.
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. Our
trainees are given high levels of responsibility,
case management and client contact from an
early stage. The firm also has an extensive support
network in place throughout the training contract
in the form of senior-level support and continuous
appraisals.
alongside Mayer Brown lawyers, assisting them
on real deals and matters, giving you first-hand
experience of life in a global law firm.
www.mayerbrowngraduates.co.uk
We run three vacation schemes per year, one in
spring and two in summer. These schemes are
a great opportunity to learn about the firm and
determine whether a career at Mayer Brown is
for you. During your time at the firm, you will gain
experience in two different practice areas, working
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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.
to start-ups, high net worth individuals and
landowners, more than 120 universities, colleges
and education bodies and over 100 healthcare
organisations.
The firm has a strong sector focus with expertise
in agriculture, banking, charities, commercial,
corporate, education, family, food and beverage,
health, insurance, private wealth, real estate
investment, sport and technology.
The firm has been named for a record twelfth year
running as one of the 100 Best Companies to
Work For in The Sunday Times annual survey.
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
Offices in Birmingham, Cambridge, Leeds,
London, Manchester and Norwich
The firm pays the full cost of the GDL and LPC
fees. Maintenance grants are paid during both the
GDL and LPC courses.
Applications for two-week paid summer
placements must be received by 31 January
2016.
Applications should be submitted by 31 July 2016
for contracts commencing September 2018
www.mills-reeve.com
Minimum upper-second in any discipline.
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Nabarro is one of the UK’s leading commercial
law firms with offices in London, Sheffield,
Manchester, Brussels, Singapore and Dubai. We
offer our clients clarity. From the most successful
companies in the world to fast growth start-ups,
we work with a diverse range of clients across
many sectors.
We are the 2012 and 2013 winners of the
NCWE award for ‘Best work placement of the
year in the law sector’. In 2011, 2013 and 2015
we won ‘The best short-term insight scheme’; at
the NUE awards, and were finalists in 2014. Also,
we are three time winners of ‘Best undergraduate
internship/vacation scheme’ at the Target National
Graduate Recruitment awards. In 2013, 2014
and 2015 we also won the ‘Best Recruiter –
Large City Firm’; at the LCN Awards.
We recruit 25 trainees per year; 20 in London and
five in Sheffield. Each trainee undertakes six fourmonth seats ensuring exposure to the firm’s core
practice and specialist areas. We recruit all of our
trainees from the vacation schemes. Applicants
should apply online.
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Founded in 1937, Mishcon de Reya offers every
legal service to companies and individuals and
our expertise covers five areas: analysing risk,
protection of assets, managing wealth, resolving
disputes and building business.
www.mishcon.com
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Norton Rose Fulbright is a global legal practice.
We provide the world’s pre-eminent corporations
and financial institutions with a full business
law service. We have more than 3,800 lawyers
based in over 50 cities across Europe, the United
States, Canada, Latin America, Asia, Australia,
Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia.
We are organised internally into six different
departments: corporate, employment, dispute
resolution, family, Mishcon Private and real
estate. The firm also has a growing number of
specialist groups which include: art; betting and
gaming; finance and banking; fraud; immigration;
insolvency; and interlectual property.
We are looking for the brightest students to join
us for our open days, vacation schemes and
training contracts.
Morgan Lewis’s London office offers a wide
range of business and commercial services, as
well as US legal services, including: corporate;
debt and equity capital markets; finance and
restructuring; labour and employment including
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Recognised 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.
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The firm with 28 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.
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employment litigation and immigration advice;
private investment fund formation and operation;
UK and US 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.
www.morganlewis.co.uk
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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.
www.ntu.ac.uk/nls
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.
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
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.
Our London headquarters is home to over 146
solicitors and our network of offices spans
Belgium, France, Germany, Spain, Singapore
and the UK, and together with our ‘best friends’
network of leading independent law firms, enables
us to advise clients across EMEA, the US and
South-East Asia.
Olswang offers an exciting new brand of law
firm, the perfect blend of modern and traditional,
our reputation in all things tech proceeds us and
ensures an exciting and inspiring law firm to be a
part of.
Our principal practice areas include: commercial
contracts, competition and regulatory, corporate,
employment, pensions and benefits, finance,
intellectual property, litigation, real estate,
sourcing, procurement and supply chain,
restructuring and special situations, tax.
www.olswang.com
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PwC Legal is an exciting place to launch your
legal career. With more than 2,500 lawyers in over
85 countries, we have one of the most extensive
legal services network in the world. What’s more,
although we’re independent, our services are
embedded within the powerful, multi-disciplinary
capabilities and broad geographic footprint of
a global professional services leader. Our links
to PwC mean we can offer our clients rounded
solutions incorporating multi-disciplinary advice.
And as PwC has over 19,000 employees in the
UK, we can give you an unrivalled, ready-made
network on your first day at the firm. Yet we’re not
so large in the UK as to be impersonal. You’ll feel
respected and encouraged to be the best you can
be thanks to the quality of our legal training.
As well as legal expertise, you’ll build strong
business advisory skills invaluable in a world
where business and legal issues are increasingly
intertwined. The practice groups you could work
in include mergers and acquisitions, banking,
commercial litigation, commercial fraud, corporate
structuring, employment, intellectual property and
information technology, pensions, real estate and
tax litigation. You may also complete a seat in
Dubai.
Our three-week paid summer vacation scheme is
a great way to find out how we work and see for
yourself the ways in which we’re truly unique in
the legal marketplace.
www.pwc.com/uk/work-in-legal
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Orrick is a leading law firm with more than 1,000
lawyers across its 24 offices throughout North
America, Europe and Asia. Orrick has earned a
global reputation advising both established and
emerging companies, banks and international
finance institutions. Much of Orrick’s client work
involves cross-border transactions which have
increased substantially in recent years with the
development of the firm’s network of global
offices.
At Orrick you will be part of a truly international
team and benefit from its core values of
collegiality, integrity, excellence, enthusiasm and
respect for individuality.
www.orrick.com/Careers/London/GraduateRecruitment/Pages/default.aspx
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Reed Smith is a global law firm, with more than
1,800 lawyers in 26 offices throughout Europe,
the Middle East, Asia and the United States.
www.reedsmith.com
The firm represents leading international
businesses, from FTSE 100 corporations to
dynamic mid-market and emerging enterprises.
Our lawyers provide litigation and other dispute
resolution services, regulatory counsel, and legal
advice on the full range of strategic domestic
and cross-border transactions. Reed Smith is
a preeminent advisor to industries including
financial services, life sciences, health care,
energy and natural resources, advertising,
technology and media, shipping, real estate,
manufacturing, and education.
We recruit a small number of graduates for our
training contract programme and run two open
days in the spring for applicants seeking to find
out more about life in a US firm and Orrick.
Our London office was established in 1998 and
is the central part of Orrick’s international network
with around 130 staff. It is primarily staffed by UK
lawyers, with over 50% of our associates having
trained with the firm.
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Pinsent Masons is a full service international
law firm and ranks amongst the top 70 global
law firms. We provide legal services to a wide
variety of clients, in particular across our four
global sectors of advanced manufacturing
and technology, energy and natural resources,
financial services and infrastructure. We work
with clients including FTSE 100 and AIM listed
companies, government departments and public
sector institutions. Pinsent Masons is the only
firm to operate across all three UK jurisdictions
and more recently we have been developing our
overseas network of offices in the Asia-Pacific
region, Europe and the Middle East. Pinsent
Masons opened offices in Sydney and Melbourne
in 2015. This reflects our strategy to become a
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firm of truly international reach, offering worldclass service and excellent value.
A Pinsent Masons Training Contract represents
the first stage of a focussed development
programme that will enable you to reach your
full potential. 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 programme.
We believe that a vacation placement is the
best way to understand whether a career in
commercial law at Pinsent Masons is right for
you. The firm’s vacation scheme has been the
top ranked legal placement on RateMyPlacement
since 2012.
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Leading lawyers. Great clients. And an unrivalled
commercial approach to business. At RPC we
offer a depth of knowledge and creativity that few
firms can rival, and combine this with high quality
training programmes that are consistently lauded
in the leading directories.
Headquartered in a state-of-the-art site in the
City of London, we also have stunning offices
in Bristol, Hong Kong and Singapore. Our open
plan, collaborative working environment where
knowledge is easily shared and access to
partners an everyday reality is designed to bring
out the best in our people and to ensure that the
service we offer our clients is second to none.
And it is.
We provide top quality legal services to global
businesses across a wide range of industry
sectors and practices, including insurance,
commercial litigation, construction, engineering
and projects, corporate/mergers and acquisitions,
interlectual property and technology, media, real
estate, employment and pensions, outsourcing,
regulatory, tax and competition.
www.rpc.co.uk
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Size of firm: 160 lawyers, 27 trainees, 300 staff
total
Locations: London, New York, Sao Paulo, Menlo
Park, Washington D.C., San Francisco, Toronto,
Tokyo, Beijing, Shanghai, Singapore, Hong Kong,
Paris, Brussels, Frankfurt, Rome, Milan, Abu
Dhabi.
Areas of work: project development and finance,
mergers and acquisitions (including private
equity), finance, litigation, international arbitration,
tax, antitrust, asset management, employment,
financial institutions advisory.
Details of vacation schemes: winter, spring
and two summer schemes allow candidates to
experience life at the firm with a combination of
real work, workshops, socials and assessments.
Attendees are supervised by a trained trainee
supervisor and are partnered with a trainee to get
a taste of what life is like as a trainee at Shearman
and Sterling.
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Slaughter and May is one of the most prestigious
law firms in the world. We advise on high-profile
and groundbreaking international transactions
and have an excellent and varied client list that
includes leading corporations, financial institutions
and governments.
Our core practice areas are mergers and
acquisitions, corporate and commercial, and
financing. We also have leading practitioners in
specialist areas including tax, competition, dispute
resolution, real estate, pensions and employment,
financial regulation, information technology and
intellectual property.
• Winter: 14–18 December 2015
• Spring: 11–22 April 2016
• Summer 1–27 June 8 July 2016
• Summer 2–11-22 July 2016
Our overseas offices and close working
relationships with leading best friend independent
law firms in other jurisdictions mean there
are opportunities for trainees to apply for a
secondment in their second year to places
such as Auckland, Beijing, Berlin, Brussels,
Copenhagen, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Helsinki,
Hong Kong, Madrid, Milan, Munich, New York,
Oslo, Paris, Sao Paulo, Singapore, Stockholm,
Tokyo, Toronto and Washington.
undergraduates and two-day Winter Workshops
for law and non law finalists and graduates.
www.slaughterandmay.com
We have approximately 80 vacancies for trainee
solicitors each year and also offer first year
open days for law students, Easter and summer
work experience schemes for penultimate year
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Shoosmiths’ focus on people, relationships and
results has defined its achievements for more
than 160 years. You’ll find us a modern national
commercial law firm. Achieving this is a dedicated
team of lawyers along with a strong support
team, in 10 offices throughout the UK, from
Southampton to Edinburgh. Our client list speaks
volumes for the quality of our lawyers and the
experience they provide. From Hewlett-Packard
to Krispy Kreme and property developers to some
of the UK’s largest banks, we work with a growing
number of the FTSE 250 and some of the world’s
most exciting ambitious growth businesses.
Applications for 2018 training contracts will
open in December 2015 and close on 31 July
2016. Over two years, a trainee will complete
four six-month placements, one of which could be
a secondment to a client’s in-house legal team,
providing an invaluable insight from the client’s
perspective.
firm along with the opportunity to speak to our
trainees and partners in a professional working
environment.
www.shoosmiths.co.uk
Applications for our 2016 spring and summer
vacation schemes will also open in early
December 2015, with the deadline of 31 January
2016 for the spring intake and a deadline of
28 February 2016 for the summer intake. The
schemes offer those who are successful a one
week placement which provides a realistic
impression of the work of a commercial law
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Staffordshire University is a modern University
with 100 years’ experience of pioneering higher
education within the creative, technological
and scientific industries. The University delivers
relevant, inspiring and vocationally led courses
and develops independent thinkers.
Passionate about transforming the lives and
aspirations of the individuals and communities it
serves, the University is agile and flexible; quick
to adapt as student requirements change and
is renowned for providing ground-breaking new
courses and outstanding learning opportunities.
Based in the Midlands in the heart of the UK,
the University is home to approximately 14,000
students that make up a dynamic and vibrant
community. In addition, the University has an
international network of over 20,000 students
studying on Staffordshire University courses at
over 40 partner organisations around the world
(January 2015).
Staffordshire University is one of the leading
providers of legal education in the UK and works
hard to ensure that our LPC graduates are
amongst the most desirable in the profession. We
focus on ensuring that our graduates are highly
employable. The SRA awarded our LPC award
the highest possible grading of commendable
practice in every area of the course. A highly
respected course, now celebrating it’s 21st
anniversary, it benefits from excellent links with
legal practice and superb careers support.
www.staffs.ac.uk
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Simmons & Simmons is a leading international
law firm with fully integrated teams working
throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
The firm’s 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.
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, energy and infrastructure,
financial institutions, life sciences, and technology,
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media and telecommunications. These five
sector teams are drawn from the core practice
areas of: competition and regulatory, corporate,
dispute resolution, employment, pensions and
employee benefits, financial markets, information,
communications and technology, intellectual
property, projects, real estate, and tax.
Simmons & Simmons has training contract
opportunities in our offices in London and Bristol
open to law and non-law students and graduates.
Our training programme is evolving to build the
skills you will need to be successful in the fast
moving world of international business. Our
groundbreaking MBA programme is designed
to provide our trainees and junior lawyers with a
unique opportunity to gain valuable business and
commercial skills early in their career. During the
training contract, trainees complete four six month
seats in different practice areas ensuring you will
have a broad, balanced and integrated approach
to gaining the knowledge, expertise and abilities
you will need to qualify in the practice area of your
choice.
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Stephenson Harwood LLP is a full-service
international law firm that’s ambitious, growing
and delivering ground-breaking deals. We have
a huge depth of international experience, clients
across the world (some 60% are non-UK) and
regularly advise on multi-jurisdictional transactions
and disputes, offering clients commerciallyfocused advice and outstanding service no matter
where in the world they operate. Through our
international network of offices and affiliates, we
provide clients with quality resources and expert
local knowledge in Africa, Europe, the Middle
East, Latin America and Asia. With some 25% of
our people operating out of Beijing, Dubai, Hong
Kong, Seoul, Shanghai and Singapore, our link to
Asia is stronger than ever.
Training contracts and placement schemes are
open to anyone in his/her penultimate year of
a law degree or final year of study of a nonlaw degree. We also welcome applications
from postgraduates and individuals who have
pursued other careers before committing to
the legal profession. Open days are suitable
for anyone currently studying at undergraduate
level or beyond. This includes first year students
through to postgraduates. Closing dates are 8
November 2015 for winter placement scheme; 31
January 2016 for open days, spring and summer
placement schemes; and 31 July 2016 for training
contracts
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chambers. Dedicated sector content, advice and
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contracts, pupillages and vacation placements.
TARGETjobs Law offers unique content to help
you secure a training contract or pupillage. A
dedicated law recruitment specialist provides
advice on how to break into this highly competitive
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Employer Insights provide in-depth independent
reviews of leading law firms and their recruitment
processes. They are the perfect resource to help
choose which firms or chambers to apply for and
prepping for interviews.
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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 across the globe. To do
that, we have developed close ties with carefully
chosen lawyers within overseas independent
law firms who share our specialist strengths and
demanding standards for quality.
Visit our stand to join us. Receive job alerts
containing training contracts, pupillages and
vacation placements, pick up copies of our
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TARGETjobs Law can help you to get hired.
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 a collegiate
firm we treat people with respect, allowing them
to conduct business in the most effective way
for our clients. This has led to a climate of shared
goals, supported by a friendly and engaging team
spirit.
and can look forward to client contact, and the
responsibility that goes with it, from day one.
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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 of hierarchy. It also means that trainees receive individual
and extensive training from experienced lawyers,
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Taylor Wessing is a full-service international
law firm, working with clients in the world’s
most dynamic industries. We take a singleminded approach to advising our clients,
helping them succeed by thinking innovatively
about their business issues. Our focus is on
the industries of tomorrow: technology, media
and communications; life sciences; energy; and
private wealth
four different practice groups. Working closely
with partners and associates on high quality
work from the outset, you’ll get regular support
and feedback to align your career to the growth
and needs of the firm. Our two-week vacation
schemes are designed for you to experience
life as a trainee solicitor. You’ll spend a week in
a different practice groups gaining first-hand
experience under supervision of associates and
partners.
www.taylorwessing.com/graduate
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Whether your ambition is to work as a lawyer or
in wider business, then studying at The University
of Law will ensure you’ll get the best possible
start to your career. Our innovative courses, such
as our LPC with the option of an MSc in Law,
Business and Management, are designed and
taught by lawyers with real business experience,
with a clear focus on building the practical skills,
commercial awareness and independent thinking
that employers of today are looking for. As the
UK’s largest law school with nine locations
across the UK, including two in London, we’re the
destination of choice for ambitious people. Our
record speaks for itself, in 2014 more graduates
from The University of Law secured training
contracts than from any other law college.
We are looking for individuals who can think
creatively, be proactive and stay close to clients.
Our training programme combines the in-house
professional skills course with six-month seats in
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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 whatever stage you’re at. 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.
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Vinson & Elkins is a leading US-based
international law firm with more than 700
lawyers located in 15 cities across the globe.
Over the years, V&E has amassed a wealth of
experience working on projects for clients in
almost every country on the map. We work in
tandem with our clients, travelling wherever
and whenever we are needed. We know what
it takes to make deals work and to win cases.
Our clients are predominantly in the energy,
finance and infrastructure sectors and the London
office specialises in mergers and acquisitions,
construction, project development and finance,
international arbitration and litigation, corporate
and structured finance, and tax.
The firm operates a non-rotational training
system with trainees working in all practice
areas throughout their two years. The training
is designed to provide variety, flexibility
and responsibility from the start. We offer
approximately 20 one-week vacation placements
in the London office, which are viewed as
key to our recruitment process. For summer
2016 placements apply by 31 January 2016.
Applications should be made by way of our
application form, available from our website. We
seek to recruit an annual intake of three to four
trainees in London with potential opportunities for
an international seat.
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Watson, Farley & Williams LLP was founded in
1982 in the City of London. It has grown rapidly
to 140 partners and a total staff of over 800 since
this time. We have offices in London, New York,
Paris, Hamburg, Munich, Frankfurt, Rome, Milan,
Madrid, Athens, Singapore, Bangkok, Hong Kong
and Dubai. The international offices work together,
a structure of particular benefit to international
clients.
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Following a merger with Grange Wintringham
in 2010, Wilkin Chapman now has a dominant
regional presence in Lincolnshire and East
Yorkshire, delivering an unparalleled range of legal
services to corporate, public sector, private and
publicly funded clients who are locally, nationally
and internationally based.
Our lawyers work within departments and share
their knowledge and specialisation with trainees,
giving them the opportunity to contribute to
cases and have responsibility for matters with
appropriate supervision. Client service is of
key importance throughout our business and
excellent systems support lawyers in meeting high
standards of client care.
We are exceptional as a regional practice as
our lawyers work in highly specialised fields
including corporate and commercial, agriculture,
commercial property, wills, probate and trusts,
personal injury, employment litigation and family.
This gives an unusual breadth of law for trainees
to mix within their training contracts yet undertake
work of significant depth. Our clients range
from PLC to publicly funded with the majority in
between: either companies, property developers,
farmers or private individuals.
As a trainee you will undertake three seats, one of
a year and two of six-months. These are selected
considering the areas of law of key interest to
candidates. A mentoring programme is used to
aid development and offer feedback.
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With approximately 1,100 lawyers in 20 offices
across the U.S., Europe, Asia and the Middle
East, Weil operates according to the one firm
principle, allowing us to bring the right mix of
firm-wide skill and local-market presence to
deliver coordinated legal advice to help our clients
achieve their sophisticated goals and objectives.
Our London office is the largest of our European
offices and the hub of our European practice. The
office is a leading player in the U.K. legal market
and is consistently regarded as one of the most
successful London offices of a U.S.-based law
firm. We support a varied client base of European,
U.S. and global private equity houses, corporates
and financial institutions on domestic and crossborder matters.
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Withers LLP is an international law firm dedicated
to the business, personal and philanthropic
interests of successful people, their families, their
businesses and their advisers. The wealth of
today’s private client has increased in multiples
and many are now institutions in their own right.
With our merger in 2002 we have been able
to respond to these changing legal needs and
offer integrated solutions to the international
legal and tax needs of our clients. Work is often
international due to the complexity of our client
base and we have acted for 42% of the UK
Sunday Times Rich List and a significant number
from the US Forbes and Asian Hurun rich lists.
We currently have 163 partners and more than
1,000 people in London, Milan, Padua, Geneva,
Zurich, Hong Kong, Singapore, BVI, New York,
New Haven, Greenwich, San Francisco, Los
Angeles, San Diego, Rancho Santa Fe, Sydney
and Tokyo. This allows us to give unparalleled
expert advice in commercial and tax law, trusts,
estate planning, litigation, charities, employment,
reputation management, family law and other legal
issues facing high net worth individuals.
The firm has been recognised for its collaborative
working environment and has been consistently
listed in; The Sunday Times 100 Best Companies
To Work For; as well as winning; Legal Week’s
Best Legal Employer Award; for several years.
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White & Case is a prestigious global law firm with
over 2,200 lawyers worldwide. Our network of
39 offices provide the full range of legal services
of the highest quality in almost every major
commercial centre and emerging market. We are
proud to represent some of the world’s longest
established and most respected names alongside
many start-up visionaries. As part of our training
contract, we offer every trainee a guaranteed
six-month overseas seat in locations such as Abu
Dhabi, Beijing, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Istanbul,
New York, Prague, Singapore and Tokyo. We are
looking to recruit ambitious trainees who have a
desire to gain hands-on practical experience from
day one. They should have an understanding of
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international commercial issues and an interest
in working on big-ticket, cross-border work. We
actively encourage our trainees to take early
responsibility and there is a strong emphasis
on practical training, with plenty of support and
feedback.
In London, our key areas of work include; bank
finance; capital markets; dispute resolution;
energy, infrastructure, project and asset finance
(EIPAF) and corporate/mergers and acquisitions.
Apply online at by 26 November 2015 for open
day places, 31 January 2016 for vacation scheme
placements and by 31 July 2016 for training
contracts to commence in September 2018 or
March 2019.
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Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co is a UKheadquartered international law firm providing
a full service to clients worldwide. Businesses
around the world choose us to help them thrive,
prosper and become their best. And the key
to our success? Our people, of course. Bright,
talented individuals who work together to deliver a
first-class legal service to first-class legal clients.
Sector-focused, we bring together dedicated
teams of insightful experts in a wide range of
industries, including aerospace, technology,
energy, food and drink, healthcare and life
sciences, public sector and retail, commercial,
energy and natural resources, intellectual
property, IT, outsourcing, private finance initiative,
projects and regulatory issues.
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