Our goal is to recruit and bring together the best people across the globe, to provide quality services and support for our clients’ most complex disputes, transactions and projects.
As a global law firm, we can offer our trainees many fantastic opportunities such as working on cross-jurisdictional cases and gaining experience in a multicultural setting. We encourage all of our trainees to get involved in other initiatives at the firm such as D&I events, social events and CSR projects including the immigration law clinic.
From the moment you step through the door, you’ll be given real responsibility for real cases. Although your work will be supervised by partners, you’ll also enjoy a high level of autonomy. You’ll need to be proactive to get the most out of your time on your training contract, building relationships with partners to support them in cases.
Occasionally we’re also able to offer our trainees the opportunity to work in one of our overseas offices or to go on secondment to one of our clients. Secondment opportunities vary but recently we’ve had trainees go on secondment to our Gibraltar, Dubai and Piraeus offices, and to clients across our practice groups including P&I clubs, energy contractors, and Lloyd’s syndicates.
We consider work/life balance to be very important and promote a healthy balance at all levels.
In our Bristol and Cardiff offices, we have small trainee intakes meaning you will be given high levels of support, training and development.
We typically have one trainee vacancy in each of the offices. Applications for both Bristol and Cardiff will open in March 2022 for a September 2022/2023 start date.
Our Bristol position will predominantly be focused on working in the clinical negligence department and the commercial team which includes employment, dispute resolution and corporate/commercial and the position within the Cardiff office will predominately be focused on working in property, family and dispute resolution.
As these offices have small trainee intakes, there is a flexible approach to being allocated to one department and, as a trainee, you would support multiple Partners to enable you to gain a broad understanding of the firm. We have an extensive trainee training programme which has been set up from a London office which you would be involved in to enable you to develop your skills and understand more about the offerings from all offices.