Jones Day

The firm

Jones Day operates as one firm worldwide with 2,500 lawyers in 34 offices. Jones Day in London is a key part of this international partnership and has around 200 lawyers, including around 50 partners and 35 trainees. This means that we can offer our lawyers a perfect combination – the intimacy and atmosphere of a mediumsized City firm with access to both UK and multinational clients.

Types of work

Principal areas of practice include: corporate finance and M&A transactions, investment funds, private equity and corporate tax planning, banking, capital markets and structured finance, business restructuring, litigation, intellectual property, tax and real estate. The London office also has teams of lawyers who are experienced in such areas as competition/antitrust, environmental, employment and pensions law.

Who should apply

Candidates should have obtained or be predicted at least a 2.1 degree in any discipline. We look for candidates with either a law or non-law degree, who have strong intellectual and analytical ability and good communication skills and who can demonstrate resourcefulness, drive, dedication and the ability to be a team player.

Training programme

The firm operates a unique, non-rotational system of training which is designed to provide freedom, flexibility and responsibility from the start. Our trainees work across different practice areas concurrently and are encouraged to assume their own workload. This allows for early responsibility, faster development of potential and the opportunity to compare and contrast different disciplines alongside one another. As our trainees do not move to a different department every six months, they don’t miss the end of deals or trials that they have worked on. Work will vary from small cases, which trainees may handle alone (under the supervision of a senior lawyer), to matters where they will assist a partner or an associate solicitor. The firm runs a structured training programme with a regular schedule of seminars to support the thorough practical training.

When to apply

For September 2014: final-year law and nonlaw students, graduates and postgraduates - from February 2012.

Penultimate-year law students – from June 2012, after penultimate-year exam results have been received.

Application deadline: 31st July 2012 (unless our places fill earlier).

Placement schemes (two-week placements at £400 per week).

We run placements for non-law students in winter and spring and for law students over the summer. Graduates and postgraduates can apply for any scheme. Please refer to the website for further information.

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