Herbert Smith Freehills
At Herbert Smith Freehills, we align your growth and ambition with ours. We invest in your personal and professional growth and support you to achieve your ambition. And you share responsibility for playing a part in delivering the firm’s growth and ambition too.
We’re excited about the future and you’ll help us build something even better than we
have today. Our training is tailored and meaningful. We’ll ask you to be open to the experience and what's required. You’ll discover what sort of lawyer you want to be and become an excellent one.
A leading international law firm, we’re recognised leaders in demanding contentious matters, exacting regulatory work and complex public and private transactions. From the outset, you’ll work with respected colleagues on high-quality matters and your experience will help you grow an international perspective.
We’re immersed in the many challenges facing our clients. We’re interested and resourceful. We understand the part technology plays in the delivery of legal services. We want to make a positive impact. You’ll have the opportunity to engage with this with an open mind and curiosity.
Known for our diverse perspectives and renowned for our culture, being human, bold and outstanding are more than our values: you’ll discover it’s our lived experience. And by being ambitious for your growth and ours, we’ll achieve our goals together.
Herbert Smith Freehills: Your growth. Our ambition.
Live opportunities
Trainee Associate Programme London 2025
LondonBright Network Diverse Legal Leaders 2024
Begin your legal journey at Diverse Legal Leaders this October 👩🏻⚖️👨🏾⚖️🧑🏽⚖️ **Please note in-person spaces are now closed, virtual spaces are still available. Discover your next steps at Diverse Legal Leaders - the premier networking event connecting aspiring legal professionals with inclusive employers who champion diversity in the law sector. Whether you're a first-year student exploring future career options, a second-year student seeking vacation scheme application advice or a final-year student planning your next move, this event is your gateway to understanding how to enter the legal field without a law degree. Date: 25th October 2024 Location: etc.venues St Paul's, London Nearest tube station: Barbican 🗓️ Agenda | 📸 What to expect | 🤝 DEI&B and accessibility Why attend? Discover how you can break into the legal sector from senior leaders and trainees alike Network with inclusive employers such as A&O Shearman, Latham & Watkins, Slaughter and May and more to discover career paths that align with your goals Identify key traits for success within the sector through insight panels and skill-building sessions The event is running in a hybrid format, so you can attend virtually or in-person. However, virtual attendees will not have the opportunity to network with the employers. Instead, we will run employer interviews to help our virtual attendees gain more insights. *Sponsorship opportunities with participating employers may be limited for attendees without the permanent right to work in the UK
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Digital Open Day 2024
DIGITAL OPEN DAY DATE: 5 November 2024 LOCATION: London Technology and data are reshaping the world. This means the work we do as lawyers – and the way we work – is changing too. Our Digital Open Day has been designed to showcase how digital change is transforming the role of the lawyer. Specifically, you'll explore how our lawyers are advising the most innovative clients on digital matters like AI, blockchain, crypto and the metaverse; and how we're developing and using cutting-edge legal technologies like generative AI and smart legal contracts to transform legal practice. You’ll also find out more about the innovative thinking you need and the sort of interesting projects you could be involved in here, plus hear from our Early Careers team on how to make your vacation scheme applications stand out. We consider applicants from any degree discipline, with a keen interest in commercial law. Applicants should be current university students or graduates. APPLICATIONS OPEN 1 September – 13 October 2024 Your Growth. Our Ambition.
LondonIntellectual Property, Cyber and Technology Open Day 2024
Are you studying a science, technology, engineering, medicine, electronics, maths, computer science, AI or cyber subject? Ever thought of a career in a law firm? We’d like to invite you to our Intellectual Property (IP), Cyber and Technology Open Day, where we’ll introduce you to the many ways a technical background can help you to build an outstanding career in law. The event will include an overview of IP law (the law protecting inventions, brands, technology, media and creative work) as well as the legal side of cyber security and other areas of technology law. Our science and technology qualified lawyers will take you through some of our most exciting recent work, showing how their skills and interests are essential for the matters we handle. We’ll show you how your soft and hard skills will help you in day-to-day work including: interviewing experts in a scientific or technical field supervising experiments understanding how software has been misused appreciating how the latest blockbuster drugs were invented and recognising scientific and technical context in which this happened being able to communicate with technologically sophisticated clients preventing or limiting cyber disasters dealing with the complex IP issues surrounding AI. The day is designed to inspire you and show you the high profile, high quality work you could be involved in if you choose to join us, whether as a lawyer or as part of our legal operation function. This Open Day is open to applications from students studying a science, technology, engineering, electronics, maths, medicine, computer science, artificial intelligence or cyber subject and also to those studying other subjects who are involved in technology-driven projects, in any year of their degree, as well as to graduates. If you are unsure whether your degree subject qualifies, please get in touch.
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