Mayer Brown International LLP

About Mayer Brown

Mayer Brown is a leading global law firm with 1,600 lawyers across Europe, the Americas and Asia. The firm’s Asia presence was enhanced by its 2008 combination with Johnson Stokes & Master, the largest and oldest Asia law firm. (In Asia, we are known as Mayer Brown JSM.) In December 2009, Mayer Brown formed an association with Tauil & Chequer, a leading law firm in Brazil. This impressive on-the-ground presence in the world’s leading markets for legal services enables Mayer Brown to offer clients access to local market expertise on a global basis. The international reach of the firm is further enhanced through two independent alliances with leading law firms in Italy and Spain.

Mayer Brown in London

From its trendy city location, the London office provides a full service presence; working together with its US, European and Asian counterparts to provide clients with complete representation on local and multijurisdictional matters alike. Our lawyers practise in a wide range of areas including corporate, finance, litigation and dispute resolution, real estate, insurance and reinsurance, construction, pensions and employment, competition and trade, tax, intellectual property, and information technology. The firm advises many of the world’s largest companies including a significant proportion of the Fortune 100, FTSE 100 and DAX and Hang Seng Index organisations from the worlds of banking, insurance, communications, industrials, energy, construction, professional services, media, pharmaceuticals, chemicals and mining.

Why train at Mayer Brown?

Our trainees can tailor their training contract from a range of different seats, including our main practice areas in London, international secondments (Hong Kong, New York and São Paulo) and our client secondments within the UK.

For a large international firm, our London office remains a tightly knit team with an open and inclusive culture. You will nevertheless be given significant opportunities to assist on matters which may be multi-disciplinary, cross-border, complex and high-profile in nature. Trainees are given high levels of responsibility, case management and client contact from an early stage.

Work experience programmes

We run three work experience programmes each year: two three-week schemes in the summer and one two-week programme at Easter. All are based in the London office and applications are welcome from law and non-law undergraduates and graduates.

How to apply

Work experience programmes: applications are welcomed from both law and non-law undergraduates and can be made from 1 November 2011. The deadline is 31 January 2012.

For training contracts, penultimate year law students should apply after the release of their penultimate year exam results. Non-law students, final year law students and graduates should apply after 1 November in their final year of undergraduate study. The deadline for training contract applications is 31 July 2012.