First Year Insight Scheme

Key information:

Scheme dates – Monday 14 to Thursday 17 April 2025
Salary - £450 per week
Application open date – Monday 23 September 2024
Application close date – Friday 24 January 2025

About the scheme

During the week, you take part in:

• A negotiation exercise;
• An application skills workshop;
• A group project;
• Lunch with associates and trainees;
• Speed networking with all our practice areas; and
• Work shadowing a trainee.

The application skills workshop walks you through our application form. Our early legal careers team also provide you with their top tips for success. Shadowing a trainee offers invaluable experience, and you get to see first-hand the work that goes on in a practice area. You may sit in on a conference call, help with research or look through a draft agreement.

The insight scheme is a good first step towards the vacation scheme and the training programme. You leave having had a real behind-the-scenes experience of working at a commercial law firm.

Assessment process

Complete the application form if you would like to apply for a place on our first year insight scheme. You will then be sent a link to our online assessment, which you will have seven days to complete. If you are progressed to the next stage, we will arrange a telephone interview to learn more about you and to give you the opportunity to ask us questions.