About the firm

The firm: Where talented people come together.

Welcome to Addleshaw Goddard – an international law firm, almost 250 years in the making. We’re trusted by over 3,000 major organisations, including 51 FTSE 100 companies, to solve problems, deliver deals, defend rights, comply with regulations and mitigate risk. Our work spans more than 50 areas of business law, paving the way to deliver the best possible outcomes for clients across multiple industries.

Appointed time and again, we help them do business, operate and grow – effectively and safely – in over 100 countries worldwide. And while the challenges our clients bring us may vary, we approach and solve them with the same, single-minded focus: finding the smartest way to achieve the biggest impact.

Who we are: From the work we do to the culture we foster and the partnerships we form, every last part of Addleshaw Goddard is driven by three core values: quality, imagination, and impact.

We welcome everyone, support people to achieve their full potential, and always seek smart ways to have a positive impact – for our clients, colleagues and communities around the world.

Our Dublin office has advised over 1,000 companies operating in, to and from Ireland – the country named in the top three most attractive places in Western Europe for investment, and home to many world-leading, high-performing companies. With our local presence in Ireland formed through a merger with Eugene F Collins, our full-service team has been operating in the market for over 125 years – supporting clients in areas such as financial services, real estate, retail and consumer, technology and life sciences.

We are committed to finding the smartest ways of delivering the biggest impact to clients of all sizes in Ireland, Europe and beyond.

What we do: More imagination. More impact.

We act for clients whatever the scale of their requirements. We have been instructed by 51 FTSE 100 companies in the last two years, including Associated British Foods, SSE, GlaxoSmithKline, HSBC and British Land. Our business is about strong client relationships built on successful delivery across national and international markets. Equally important is strong loyalty, which is proven through the 75% of our clients who have been with us for more than ten years.

The range and scale of our work is compelling, and encompasses high-value strategic advice to the everyday. It means we are able to attract talented, like-minded individuals who love what they do, are committed to our clients’ success, and strive to build valued partnerships through our collective energy and expertise.

What we’re looking for: There is no Addleshaw Goddard type. We are looking for authentic personalities who are aspiring, confident and committed to becoming great lawyers.

We want people who want to learn alongside the best in the profession, bringing their energy and passion to our team and our clients.

In order to apply for this opportunity, you need to:

  • be in your final year or have graduated with a 2(1) (whether predicted or obtained). Please note that we consider applications from those who have received a 2(2) with mitigating circumstances;
  • be ready to join us for a pre-seat prior to starting the Professional Practice Course (PPC) in September (the pre-seat for September 2025 will commence in May 2025, the pre-seat for September 2026 will commence in January 2026); and
  • have passed all FE-1s prior to joining us for your pre-seat.

Summer internship 2025: We offer a four-week summer internship in Dublin. And because everyone is an individual, we make sure each placement is a valuable experience for each individual student.

While you are here, you will get to know the everyday life of an Addleshaw Goddard trainee. You will experience different divisions and sectors that AG Ireland operates in. You will be supervised by an experienced solicitor, who will welcome you to the department and allocate work. You will be allocated a trainee buddy who will be on hand to help throughout your placement.

This is a scheme as unique as you are. As well as informative sessions, group exercises, assessed work and plenty of time at your desk, you will attend social events with a range of people across the office. It’s a real chance to get to know our people and our culture. We offer training contracts to successful interns, so we’d encourage you to apply.

Diversity, equality and inclusion

At Addleshaw Goddard, we recognise the importance of nurturing an inclusive culture to help us attract, retain and enable our people to be the best they can be.

In 2020 we introduced a new, board-approved inclusion strategy, which included:

  • Allocating senior leadership roles across five key strands of inclusion (Disability, Ethnicity, Gender, LGBTQ+ and Social Mobility), including senior partners and business services leads.
  • The setting of targets for ethnicity and gender across our business.
  • The setting of short-, medium- and long-term goals to keep us accountable.

Since 2020 we have kept our strategy under review to ensure that it remains ambitious and reflects the needs of our people, and hope that this strategic approach will create greater equality within our firm and foster a greater sense of belonging amongst our people.

Now in 2024, our commitment to DE&I remains firm. We’ve invested heavily in our employee networks (which now have nearly 700 members) which include:

  • Ability Forum (disability and carers)
  • AG Embrace (race and ethnicity)
  • OpenAG (LGBTQ+)
  • The Vine (gender)
  • Social Mobility Volunteers (social mobility)

We also have two faith networks (our Muslim and Jewish communities) which colleagues can join.