Vacation placements

Slaughter and May: Vacation placements at Slaughter and May

The firm

Slaughter and May is one of the world’s leading international law firms with an extensive corporate, commercial and financing practice. The specialist groups, including technology, media and telecommunications, competition, financial regulation, dispute resolution, environment, commercial real estate, intellectual property, pensions and employment and tax, complement these activities.

Our lawyers are not set monthly or annual targets in terms of the hours they must work or the fees they charge; what matters is expertise, sound judgement, a willingness to help one another and the highest quality of client service.

We have 130 partners and a total of approximately 1,200 people of whom over 400 are associates and 182 are trainees.

Work experience schemes

We run work experience schemes at Easter, Christmas and during the summer for those who are considering law as a career. The summer and Easter schemes are for law and non-law students who are in the penultimate year of their first degree course. The Christmas scheme is aimed at non-law graduates and non-lawyers in the final year of their degree course.

The principal aim of our work experience schemes is to enable you to get beyond the theory and experience a City lawyer’s life as it actually is. We put a great deal of effort into involving you in our legal work, We supplement this with specially tailored training, including a seminar on company law, an interactive case study, a hands-on introduction to PC-based legal research using our own online databases, a workshop considering what it takes to be a city lawyer and a series of further talks and discussion. We also arrange a number of social events to enable you to talk with members of the firm on an informal basis.

Applications

Applications should be made by way of our online system which can be accessed via our website – slaughterandmay.com. You will be asked to complete a short form and to attach a copy of your covering letter and CV (including a percentage breakdown of all examination results).

Please visit our website for details of when we begin accepting applications for each scheme. We encourage applications to be submitted as early as possible within the set dates. We offer places as we receive applications and we therefore cannot guarantee space will be available by the application deadline date.  We will be interviewing at the end of January/beginning of February for places on the summer scheme.

Whilst the work experience schemes are useful, they are not part of our recruitment process. It is not necessary to have completed a work experience scheme with us, or indeed with any other firm, in order to secure a training contract at Slaughter and May. If you are already convinced that a career with a City law firm is for you we would encourage you to apply for a training contract, as soon as it is appropriate, and not worry about work experience.

 

Deadline for placements:

• Summer - 22 January 2010