Legal vacation schemes/opportunites

What is a vacation Scheme?

A vacation scheme gives you an insight into what working for a particular firm is like, vacation schemes also help you to improve your skills and legal knowledge. What’s more, firms often recruit their trainee’s from such programmes for their training contracts.

What does it involve?

Lasting anything between one week and a month, a vacation scheme will help you to improve your skills and legal knowledge and also give firms a chance to take a closer look at you. You’ll meet partners, associates, solicitors and trainees and find out more about the structure of work and training, the culture of the firm, and what cases and transactions actually involve.

It’s also a good opportunity to gain a better understanding of the skills and personal qualities that the firm is seeking and what they mean in practice.

The structure of schemes varies with each firm, but generally you’ll be assigned a supervisor and a buddy and placed with two practice groups. You’ll get the opportunity to work on live cases and transactions and you’ll also get to shadow lawyers, sitting in on client meetings and observing them giving legal advice. There may also be workshops, seminars and presentations for you to attend and, depending on the size of the firm, some social events.

Where can we find them?

You can search online for Legal vacation schemes, in a specific area or firm, we have put together some of the ones available in Easter and Summer 2022 into the document link below for you!

Legal Vacation Schemes