One Bunhill Row, London EC1Y 8YY
020 7600 1200
trainee.recruit@slaughterandmay.com
www.slaughterandmay.com

Training contracts: 90 approx. per year. 

Placements: Work Experience Schemes at Easter, Christmas and during the summer.

Starting salary: £38,000

Salary on qualification: £61.000

Locations: London and overseas

We are a leading international law firm with a multinational client portfolio of many of the world’s leading companies, organisations and governments. Our lawyers devise solutions for complex, often transnational, problems and advise some of the world’s brightest business minds.  As well as our London and overseas offices, in order that we provide the best advice and service across the world, we nurture long-standing relationships with the leading independent law firms in other jurisdictions – relationships which are strengthened by exchanges of staff, know-how and technology, and which mean that individual lawyers at all levels work with their overseas counterparts as one team.

Firm structure

The firm is not organised according to a rigid structure based solely on areas of practice or types of transactions. We prefer to take a more client-led approach. We work, therefore, in flexible teams, which enable us to meet the specific needs of each client. Our largest practice areas are Financing and Corporate & Commercial. Lawyers practising in these areas work in client-focused groups, enabling them to develop strong client relationships while maintaining broad practices. Our specialist groups, including technology, media and telecommunications, competition, financial regulation, dispute resolution, environment, commercial real estate, intellectual property and information technology, pensions and employment and tax complement these activities.

Our lawyers have direct experience of high-calibre international work and opportunities to work with, and on secondment to, leading law firms around the world.

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

Training

A Training Contract with the firm gives a thorough grounding in the practice of being a solicitor, combining formal sessions with a high degree of hands-on experience. Trainees work in a broad cross-section of the firm’s practice through seats in four or five groups. Most trainees spend two or three six-month seats in the corporate, commercial and financing groups working on a wide range of corporate, financial and other matters.  The remaining time is usually divided between one or two specialist areas and, for some, six months overseas. I

Who Should Apply

We are interested in applications from any source - over 60 universities are represented among the lawyers who work for the firm. A good 2:1 standard or better from any discipline, not just law, is important because our work is intellectually demanding.

How to Apply

Applications should be made using our online form which can be accessed via our website.  Applicants will be asked to complete a short form and to attach a copy of their CV and covering letter.  A full breakdown of exam results is required.