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Slaughter and May
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

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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