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Victoria Square House, Victoria Square,
Birmingham B2 4DL Tel: 020 7796 6677
How to Apply
Online application form
Application Deadline
Summer Vacation Scheme - 31 January
2008; Training Contracts - 31 July 2008
(for 2010 start)
Website
University Events in 07/08
DLA Piper will be attending numerous
law fairs and university events over the
coming academic year. Please see our
website for further details.
DLA Piper is one of the world's largest full
service commercial law firms with UK
offices in Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow,
Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester and
Sheffield. The firm now has more than 7,000
employees working from over 60 offices
across Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the
US. Their current vision is to be the leading
global business law firm and in 2006 The
Lawyer awarded DLA Piper ‘Global Law
Firm of the Year' at their annual awards,
proving they are moving closer to that vision.
Clients include some of the world's leading
businesses, governments, banks and financial
institutions and this impressive client base,
coupled with an emphasis on providing high
quality service and teamwork, offers a
challenging fast-paced working environment.
DLA Piper offers its trainees the opportunity
to apply for international secondments to
their Dubai, Hong Kong, Moscow and
Singapore offices, as well as a number of
client secondments.
DLA Piper holds the ‘Investors in People'
accreditation, demonstrating commitment to
its employees and their ongoing development.
As well as taking care of its own people,
DLA Piper has extensive Corporate Social
Responsibility/Pro Bono programmes in
place. The firm feels that taking part in
these programmes helps to broaden the
perspectives of the DLA Piper people who
take part. For trainees, pro bono work (for
companies like The Princes Trust) means
gaining valuable experience in running their
own cases and experiencing a unique level of
work and responsibility.
Main areas of work
DLA Piper has the following main areas of
work: Corporate; Employment, Pensions &
Benefits; Finance & Projects; Litigation &
Regulatory; Real Estate; and Technology,
Media & Commercial.
Trainee profile
either a law or non-law background who have
a minimum of 3 Bs at A Level (or equivalent)
and expect, or have achieved a 2.1 degree
classification – however, a strong academic
background alone is no longer sufficient.
DLA Piper looks for highly motivated and
energetic team players with sound commercial
awareness, outstanding communication and
organisational skills. As well as this, in line
with the firm's main focus of work, a keen
interest in the corporate world is essential –
as is an appetite for life!
There is no standard DLA Piper trainee,
everyone is different and they encourage their
trainees to be themselves. They aren't
looking to recruit clones.
Training environment
Trainees complete four six month seats
during the course of their training contract. If
you want responsibility, they will give you as
much as you can handle and your progress
will be monitored through regular reviews
and feedback. The compulsory Professional
Skills Course is run in-house and is tailored
to meet the needs of DLA Piper's trainees.
This combined with on-the-job experience,
provides trainees with an excellent grounding
on which to build their professional careers.
Vacation placements
DLA Piper offers around 200 places on their
summer scheme each year. The scheme
allows people to gain a real insight into life at
DLA Piper. Attendees shadow a fee earner in
two different departments and are given a
range of work to do. In addition to this a
number of presentations are given from
departments, partners and trainees, and social
events are organised, allowing the
opportunity to talk to a wide variety of staff,
in both business and informal settings.
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