No of internship positions
100+ work experience schemes per year
(Easter, Summer and Christmas)
No. of graduate positions
95 training contracts for 2010
Disciplines accepted
Any
Starting salary (May 2007)
£36,000, rising to £40,000 in the second
year of training.
Salary on qualifying
£63,500
Address & telephone number
One Bunhill Row, London EC1Y 8YY
020 7600 1200
Funding
We cover tuition and examination fees for
both the GDL/CPE and LPC and also pay
our future trainees a maintenance grant.
How to apply
Our preferred method of application is by
way of our online system
(www.slaughterandmay.com) - you will
be asked to fill in a short form and to
attach a copy of your full CV and
covering letter. We also accept postal
applications - please send a covering
letter plus CV including a percentage
breakdown of all examination results to
Ms Charlotte Houghton, Personnel
Manager, One Bunhill Row, London,
EC1Y 8YY.
Application deadline
There is no closing date for receipt of
applications for training contracts.
The closing dates for the work experience
schemes are: Christmas - 26th October
2007, Easter - 4th January 2008, summer
- 25th January 2008.
Training contract starts
September 2010 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 clientfocused
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 133 partners and a total of more than
1,200 people of whom over 400 are
associates and 180 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 two week 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 – over 60 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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