Ashurst
Ashurst LLP is an elite law firm advising corporates and financial institutions with core businesses in mergers and acquisitions, corporate and finance. Our strong and growing presence around the world is built on extensive experience in working with clients on the complex international legal and regulatory issues relating to cross-border transactions.
Our main areas of practice are in Competition and EU; Corporate; Employment, Incentives and Pensions; Energy, Transport and Infrastructure; International Finance; Litigation; Real Estate; Tax; and Technology and Commercial.
To become an Ashurst trainee you will need to show common sense and good judgement. We need to know that you can handle responsibility because you will be involved in some of the highest quality international work on offer anywhere. The transactions and cases you will be involved in will be intellectually demanding so we look for high academic achievers who are able to think laterally. But it's not just academic results that matter. We want people who have a range of interests outside of their studies. And we want outgoing people with a sense of humour who know how to laugh at themselves.
The training contract at Ashurst consists of four seats. For each, you will sit with a partner or senior solicitor who will be the main source of your work and your principal supervisor during that seat. Seats are generally for six months. Anything less than that will not give you sufficient depth of experience for the responsibility that we expect you to take on. We ask trainees to spend one seat in our Corporate department and one seat in our International Finance department. Trainees spend their two remaining seats in our other practice areas, on secondment to a client or on secondment to one of our overseas offices.
We run a series of placement schemes every year. We run one two-week placement scheme at Easter and two three-week placement schemes across the summer months. You will spend each week of the scheme in a different department, shadowing a solicitor and becoming fully involved in their work. The aim is for you to get as broad and comprehensive view as possible, over a short period of time, of life as a City solicitor. We also give a number of talks relating to the firm and our areas of practice and arrange a variety of social events and trips. In the summer, you will have the chance to visit our Paris office for the day to find out more about working internationally.
Our main areas of practice are in Competition and EU; Corporate; Employment, Incentives and Pensions; Energy, Transport and Infrastructure; International Finance; Litigation; Real Estate; Tax; and Technology and Commercial.
To become an Ashurst trainee you will need to show common sense and good judgement. We need to know that you can handle responsibility because you will be involved in some of the highest quality international work on offer anywhere. The transactions and cases you will be involved in will be intellectually demanding so we look for high academic achievers who are able to think laterally. But it's not just academic results that matter. We want people who have a range of interests outside of their studies. And we want outgoing people with a sense of humour who know how to laugh at themselves.
The training contract at Ashurst consists of four seats. For each, you will sit with a partner or senior solicitor who will be the main source of your work and your principal supervisor during that seat. Seats are generally for six months. Anything less than that will not give you sufficient depth of experience for the responsibility that we expect you to take on. We ask trainees to spend one seat in our Corporate department and one seat in our International Finance department. Trainees spend their two remaining seats in our other practice areas, on secondment to a client or on secondment to one of our overseas offices.
We run a series of placement schemes every year. We run one two-week placement scheme at Easter and two three-week placement schemes across the summer months. You will spend each week of the scheme in a different department, shadowing a solicitor and becoming fully involved in their work. The aim is for you to get as broad and comprehensive view as possible, over a short period of time, of life as a City solicitor. We also give a number of talks relating to the firm and our areas of practice and arrange a variety of social events and trips. In the summer, you will have the chance to visit our Paris office for the day to find out more about working internationally.
