About the firm
About the firmSenior partner: Dominic Griffiths
Managing partner: Jeremy Clay
Other offices: Bangkok, Beijing, Brasilia (T&C), Brussels, Charlotte, Chicago, Dubai, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, New York, Palo Alto, Paris, Rio de Janeiro (T&C), Salt Lake City, San Francisco, São Paulo (T&C), Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo, Vitória (T&C), and Washington DC.
Who we are: We’re a global law firm, whose signature strength is high-stakes litigation and complex cross-border work in financial services.
What we do: Our lawyers have expertise across a wide range of areas including corporate, finance, real estate, litigation, white-collar crime, investigations, employment, pensions, tax, restructuring and insolvency, financial services regulatory, and intellectual property.
What we’re looking for: We’re looking for people with the potential to be brilliant lawyers; candidates who not only have a consistently strong academic record including a minimum of ABB at A-level or equivalent, but also who have a wide range of interests and achievements outside their academic career. Additionally, we would like to see innovative candidates with a drive for results, good verbal and written communication skills, resilience, and an ability to analyse, with good judgement and excellent interpersonal skills.
What you’ll do: Solicitor apprentices join the firm’s London office and spend their first 12-18 months developing an understanding of how the firm operates in business services departments such as risk and compliance, the information centre and legal projects and innovation. At that point, you’ll move into one of our legal practices.
Perks: Pension, private medical insurance, dental insurance, life assurance, employee assistance programme, onsite GP and physiotherapist, onsite subsidised canteen, free eye test, membership of Mayer Brown Advantage, membership of My Family Care, season ticket loan.
Sponsorship
The Trailblazer Solicitor Apprenticeship is an award-winning route to qualification that offers an alternative path into the legal profession. You’ll earn your qualification through a combination of work and part-time study over a period of six years without the financial burden of course fees, paid for by the firm.
Seat options
Corporate; finance; real estate; commercial dispute resolution; construction and international arbitration; competition and antitrust; restructuring; employment; pensions; intellectual property; tax; business intake; information centre; global legal projects.