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Slaughter and May
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Head office location
London
First year usually based location
London
No of internship positions
100+ work experience schemes per year (Easter, Summer and Christmas)
No. of graduate positions
95 training contracts for 2011
Disciplines accepted
Any
Starting salary (May 2008)
£38,000, rising to £43,000 in the second year of training.
Salary on qualifying
£65,000
Address & telephone number
One Bunhill Row, London EC1Y 8YY
020 7600 1200
Funding
We cover tuition and examination fees for both the GDL and LPC and also pay our future trainees a maintenance grant.
How to apply
By way of our online system - you will be asked to fill in a short form and to attach a copy of your full CV and covering letter.
Application deadline
There is no closing date for receipt of applications for training contracts.
Please visit our website for work experience scheme application dates.
Training contract starts
September 2011 onwards
Website
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The Firm
Slaughter and May is a leading international
law firm with a multinational client portfolio
of many of the world's leading companies,
organisations and governments. Our
lawyers devise solutions for complex, often
transnational, problems and advise some of
the world's brightest business minds.
The firm is not organised according to a
rigid structure based solely on areas of
practice or types of transactions. We prefer
to take a more client-led approach. We work,
therefore, in flexible teams, which enable us
to meet the specific needs of each client. Our
largest practice areas are M&A, Financing
and Corporate & Commercial. Lawyers
practising in these areas work in client focused
groups, enabling them to develop strong
client relationships while maintaining broad
practices. Our specialist groups, including
technology, media and telecommunications,
competition, financial regulation, dispute
resolution, environment, commercial real
estate, intellectual property and information
technology, pensions and employment and
tax complement these activities.
We have 132 partners and a total of more than
1,200 people of whom over 400 are associates
and 172 are trainees. Our lawyers are not set
monthly or annual targets in terms either of
the hours they must work or the fees they
must charge; what matters is expertise, sound
judgement, a willingness to help one another
and the highest quality of client service.
International Practice
Lawyers at Slaughter and May have direct
experience of high-calibre international
work and opportunities to work with, and
on secondment to, leading law firms around
the world. Our lawyers travel widely and
between them will typically work in more
than 40 countries in any one year.
Work experience schemes
We run work experience schemes to enable
students to experience a City lawyer's life
as it actually is. Approximately 100 places
are available in total for the schemes which
take place at Christmas, Easter and during
the summer. The summer scheme is for
students in the penultimate year of their first
degree course only and the Christmas scheme
is principally for graduates and final year
non-law students. We make a special effort
to involve the students in our work so they
get beyond the theory and see our practice
in action. In addition there are a series of
seminars and talks about our clients, the work
of the firm and what it takes to be a lawyer.
Training contracts
A training contract with the firm gives a
thorough grounding in the practice of being
a solicitor, combining formal sessions with
hands-on experience. Trainees work in a
broad cross-section of the firm's practice
through seats in four or five groups. Most
trainees spend two six-month seats in the
corporate, commercial and financing groups
working on a wide range of corporate,
financial and other matters. Some trainees
opt to spend part of their time in competition
or financial regulation. Many trainees also
have one seat in commercial real estate. The
remaining time is usually divided between
one or two specialist areas and, for some, six
months overseas.
Applications
We are interested in applications from
any source - almost 70 universities are
represented among the lawyers who work
for the firm. A good 2:1 standard or better
from any discipline, not just law, is important
because our work is intellectually demanding.
Plenty of common sense, together with the
ability to communicate clearly and to get
on with people are also important. The firm
expects to provide training in everything
except the fundamental principles of law,
so does not expect applicants to know much
of commercial life. It is the aim that every
trainee recruited, whose training contract is
satisfactorily completed, should continue
their career with the firm. |
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