Clyde & Co LLP |

You’re probably wondering what makes our early careers programmes different from any other law firm? Well, our rich learning experience coupled with our opportunities to work directly with clients, while being supported and guided by colleagues enables us to stand out. In return, we ask you to bring your ambition and collaborative mind to support the firm’s continued success and growth.

We’re growing and transforming our business and accelerating our clients’ success. The prospects for taking on new challenges and pursuing your potential have never been brighter.

Our distinctive strength is our people. Sharp thinking, motivated and grounded, we believe the best ideas and solutions are co-created. We share our time and opportunities to contribute in positive, impactful ways. Collaboration and teamwork are at the heart of our culture where everyone can thrive.

Here you’re empowered with autonomy to work your way. To embrace every opportunity to accelerate your career doing interesting, stimulating work. To learn and broaden your outlook with global teams and clients. Supported by thoughtful, inspiring colleagues and mentors.

Our business is fast paced and demanding. The expectations and standards are high. You’ll be fully invested in growing yourself, your colleagues and our firm. Working together towards a shared goal – to consistently deliver exceptional outcomes and bring out the best in each other.

Our values are the cornerstones of our culture; they are what guide us to achieve success time and time again. They are the centre of the decisions we make, and they unite us in everything we do.

Work as one - We are a globally connected team of talented people who act with a firm-first mentality to achieve success.

Excel with clients - We aim high and challenge ourselves to deliver unique excellence for our clients, keeping them at the centre of everything we do.

Celebrate difference - We help each other to be at our best and believe our differences result in greater achievement.

Act boldly - We seek new opportunities, take action and learn as we go, recognising that curiosity drives our development and contributes to growth.

We know just how much goes into performing highly in a fast-paced environment. We recognise your work and your pursuit of excellence. We believe success should be supported. That’s why our benefits have been designed with you in mind. We offer benefits covering your health, wealth and lifestyle.

Wherever you are in the world, we are committed to taking care of the things most important to you. Our benefits vary from country to country – you’ll get full details when you apply.

We’re here to support you every step of the way in your career with us. Wherever you are in your life, we’re here for you. We care about you and what you need.

We offer a range of benefits, covering all aspects your life. With generous leave allowances, flexible working options and a market-leading family leave scheme, we ensure you have time for you and your loved ones.

We value support, that’s why we offer employee assistance programmes, retirement plans, health insurances and more.

We cover expenses for a variety of benefits, whether its gym memberships, mindfulness apps or fitness classes to name a few. We’re committed to your wellbeing – in fact, all our people benefit from a dedicated wellbeing day each year. You’ll find something here for you.

Whether you’re thinking of starting a family, planning for retirement or joining a gym – let us support you along the way.

Step one - Explore the programme specific information throughout this website to understand which opportunity is the right one for you. Attend an Insight Event to find out more about it.

Step two - For all programmes, you’ll need to make your application online via our online system. At this stage you’ll just need to complete your basic personal information. No lengthy written tasks for you to complete here.

Step three - Following your online application, you’ll be invited to complete our digital simulation assessment. There is more information on that further down this page.

Step four - If your results of your digital simulation assessment suggest you have what we look for to be successful here then you’ll be invited to the final stage of our process – the Assessment Day (virtual or in-person, dependant on the programme).

"Celebrating difference" is one of our core values. Promoting and sustaining a more inclusive and diverse workplace is essential to how we operate. We believe our differences result in a greater achievement. And there is always work to do. We are always striving to increase representation of people from underrepresented communities at all levels.

We have many inclusion networks. Made up of our people, these groups identify and help drive the change to improve our culture and hold impactful awareness-raising events right across the year. Some networks are firm wide, but we have other local and regional groups too.

As part of our commitment, we are continuously evaluating the ways we work and introducing new initiatives to support an inclusive working environment while raising awareness. Examples are:

A Reverse Mentoring programme: offering colleagues the opportunity to learn from each other’s lived experiences.

Our Workplace Adjustments Policy: enabling all colleagues to fully participate and contribute to the firm’s success.
Our Family Leave Policy: offering a gender neutral and extensive parental leave.

Our Legal Insight for Future Talent programme: aimed at providing invaluable insight and professional development within the legal sector.

Affiliations and accreditations
Social Mobility Employer Index Ranked 41st
Rare Race Fairness Commitment
Mindful Business Charter
Legal CORE
The Halo Code
Business Disability Forum

We work with the Diversity Lab to integrate the Mansfield Rule, ensuring firms reach a critical point of representation at more senior levels to tackle bias. It establishes an ambition to consider at least 30% women, underrepresented racial and ethnic lawyers, LGBTQIA+ lawyers and lawyers with disabilities for its leadership and governance positions, partner promotions, client pitch opportunities and senior lateral positions. Alongside achieving certification, we’re working hard to improve and maintain the high standards we’ve set.

Your development is driven by your desire to take the many opportunities we have here. We work on a 70:20:10 principle, in that most of your learning happens when you’re hands-on with tasks. But we won’t leave you to figure it out alone.

The other two parts of that equation are achieved through a collaborative environment and access to excellent training courses. Once you begin life in your early career here, you’ll have access to a learning curve like no other. You will have made a commitment to working in law, and we’ll be committed to giving you the best chance to be successful.

By 2030, we want to cut our emissions by over half. By 2038, we aim to achieve Net Zero entirely. Like every business the environmental impact we cause can be felt, and we’re taking responsibility for that. We have a clear market-leading plan founded on a science-based approach to deliver on our promise.

We’re taking a holistic view on how we can reduce our impact on the world. Our strategy uses evidence and research from the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) which is a collaboration of international climate change groups that individually assess and approve companies’ ambitions.

We’re committed to operating our business in a responsible and sustainable manner and acting as an exemplar to the industry, demonstrating high ambition and high transparency and contributing to thought leadership.

Reducing our carbon footprint
We’re looking into our suppliers and the supply chains they use to address and support in areas that make an impact, while at the same time making our own internal travel policies more sustainable. We’re also transitioning our office portfolio towards fully renewable energy dependability.

Wider environmental initiatives
We are establishing a global network of passionate sustainability champions who will make incredible inroads into waste and recycling, nature and local communities, biodiversity, and nature loss. We’re also developing climate awareness training to enable all our employees to help us deliver on our targets.

Carbon offset initiatives
We’re developing a carbon offsetting strategy that will help us achieve Net Zero by 2040. We’ve already planted the Clyde & Co Community Forest in the north east of England, and we’re working on more exciting projects to deliver social, economic and environmental benefits to our communities.

Since establishing our baseline footprint and creating a roadmap to reduce our emissions, we have made good progress through a number of initiatives.

100% renewable electricity in our UK offices
In 2023 we moved our UK offices’ electricity supplies to 100% renewable energy two years ahead of our 2025 target. Work continues to move us away from direct consumption of oil and gas to make our global office portfolio as renewable as possible.

Working with 200 suppliers
Our Supplier Engagement programme works with our top 200 suppliers by emissions to better understand their impacts and to support them to reduce their emissions in line with our own targets.

Sustainability Linked Credit Facility
We’ve established an innovative Sustainability Linked Credit Facility with our bank to replace the current credit facility. This means we will pay less interest if we exceed our sustainability targets, and more interest if we miss them; directly financially incentivising our sustainability work.