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Training Contract - London

Posted 26 Mar 2024
Work experience
0 to 1 years
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
Job function
Degree level
Required language
English (Fluent)
Deadline
12 Dec 2019 22:59

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Restrictions:

You are only able to make one application to a Scheme/role (Training Contract OR Middle East Training Contract OR IGNITE OR the Summer Vacation Scheme OR SPARK). Multiple applications will not be considered. You are eligible to apply for one Open Day and focused conference alongside these applications.

Please be aware that we will only review your application form. If you upload your CV, this will pre-populate some of your application however your CV will not be reviewed.

Please do NOT upload a covering letter as this will not be reviewed.

Summary

Clifford Chance is one of the world's leading law firms, offering local and global clients expert advice on all aspects of commercial law. The firm has unrivalled scale and depth of legal resources across five continents and seven practice areas.

As a trainee at Clifford Chance you will undertake seats in at least four of these practice areas. Three of your seats will be in our core areas of Finance, Corporate and Capital Markets. One seat could be an international secondment, client secondment or split seat. You will therefore gain wide exposure to our business which will allow you to determine which area you would like to qualify into as an England & Wales qualified lawyer.

Responsibilities

Whilst your experience on each seat will be very different, in all of them you will develop your legal and business skills, gain insight into our high profile clients and enhance your commercial awareness. The tasks you undertake could include: drafting and proofing documents, conducting due diligence on a client's acquisition target, attending client meetings, preparing documents for a court hearing, researching titles and leases on a real estate portfolio or creating a data room ahead of a major transaction. You may even run some smaller transactions for our clients.

Underpinning this exposure to the best work available, you will receive learning and development support from the Clifford Chance Academy, arguably the legal sector's leading in-house learning and development facility. At the start of each seat you will receive specialised training in that sector and a dedicated supervisor.

Throughout your training contract, you will be closely supported, both informally and through formal mentoring, by the graduate development team, legal support manager and your monitoring partner.

Experience and skills

Whilst you do not need to have prior legal experience or a law degree to apply to us, we expect our trainees to be problem-solvers with strong communication skills and commercial acumen. The competencies that we look for in our trainees include:

  • Business awareness
  • Leading and managing
  • Problem solving with commercial insight
  • Relationship building and networking
  • Strong communication skills (oral and written)
  • Ability to identify legal vs business issues

Our training contract is open to Law and Non-Law students. If you have not studied a qualifying law degree (as specified by the SRA) then you will be need to complete a Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) prior to joining us as a trainee.

All future trainees will complete a LLM Commercial Legal Practice (LLM CLP) prior to starting their training contract. Both the GDL and LLM CLP are funded by Clifford Chance and we will provide a maintenance grant to use during your studies.

Application process

Applications open on 1st August 2019 and close at midnight on 12th December 2019. We do not recruit on a rolling basis and we do not review applications until after the deadline has passed.

Shortly after submitting your application, you will receive an email from us asking you to complete an online Watson Glaser critical reasoning assessment. This takes approximately 30 minutes and should be completed within 5 days of receiving our email with instructions.

The assessment days for Training Contracts will take place in London from the week commencing 6th January 2020.

Further information on the firm and the opportunities that we offer can be found on our website: careers.cliffordchance.com/L..

Clifford Chance is a leading international law firm delivering innovative and practical legal solutions to corporate, institutional, and government clients around the world. Our rapid expansion through a series of ground breaking mergers has fostered a culture that is pioneering and entrepreneurial, flexible and open, and which emphasises the fundamental importance of teamwork and of providing rich career opportunities for…


Clifford Chance is a leading international law firm delivering innovative and practical legal solutions to corporate, institutional, and government clients around the world. Our rapid expansion through a series of ground breaking mergers has fostered a culture that is pioneering and entrepreneurial, flexible and open, and which emphasises the fundamental importance of teamwork and of providing rich career opportunities for our people.

Clifford Chance’s international capabilities extend across Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Middle East, providing our clients with local expertise in all major markets and enabling us to build effective teams across practice areas and jurisdictions. At the same time it means unmatched opportunities for international exposure for our trainees and lawyers and the very real prospect of secondments to our overseas offices and to major client organisations. Nearly 80 per cent of our trainees spend six months of their training contract in one of our overseas offices.

Legal
London
5,800 employees

What employees are saying

David A.

TRAINEE SOLICITOR (BANKING AND FINANCE)

David A.

The Asset Finance team at Clifford Chance has retained and continues to retain its ranking as the global leader. The team is divided into the Projects Team and the Assets Team. Projects focuses on energy and infrastructure, while Assets focusses on major mobile assets such as planes,…

Tyrone S.

TRAINEE (CAPITAL MARKETS)

Tyrone S.

I am a 1st seat trainee and so not only am I learning a huge amount about the area of law within my seat, but also all of the extra things that make up the job at Clifford Chance. Every department is different, but across them all…