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Skills
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Business Insight
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Culture
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Your Impressions
- 1. Please give an overview of the insight and what was involved on a day-to-day basis.
- 2. Have you learnt any new skills or developed existing skills?
- How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
- How would you rate the knowledge learned around industry-specific skills during the experience?
- How would you rate the knowledge learned around personal or professional skills during the experience?
- Please rate how the knowledge learned has helped you with regards to your career development
- 3. What was it like understanding all about the business and potential roles available?
- Please rate how insightful you found the insight
- How would you rate the structure of the insight
- How would you rate business leader involvement during the insight
- 4. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
- How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
- How would you rate the networking opportunities?
- Please rate how valued you felt during your insight?
- 5. To what extent did you enjoy the insight?
- Please rate your level of enjoyment on the insight
- Please rate how your experience met your expectations
- Please rate the future employment prospects at Herbert Smith Freehills
- 7. Would you recommend Herbert Smith Freehills to a friend?
- 8. What tips or advice would you give to others applying to Herbert Smith Freehills
Overview
Meeting different members of the team. Attending team meetings. Worked on legal research tasks, involving searching for case law and looking at statutes and practice guidelines. Worked on business development work, including summarising articles and interesting recent cases. Day usually starts at 9am. I would receive work from my supervisor and other associates/ senior associates/ trainee solicitors. I would finish work around 5.30-6pm. I would mainly be working with my supervisor but often assist my trainee buddies too.
Skills
I have developed and improved my skills in the following areas: 1) Interpersonal skills- I greatly improved on my communication skills as I frequently interacted with various members of the team such as the paralegals, trainee solicitors, associates, senior associates and partners. 2) Time management- I would often receive different tasks and had to manage the amount of time I spent on each tasks to ensure I could meet their respective deadlines. Prioritisation is also a key skill as you would have to focus on essential tasks.
Business Insight
It was a great opportunity for us to gain an insight into how a law firm really worked. The firsthand experience was helpful to appreciate how law firms win work from clients and how that work translates into actual billable tasks which the team works on. Moreover, I also learnt about the roles available to me aside from being a trainee solicitor. For example, we could work as a paralegal in the time between completing our legal studies and starting as a trainee.
Culture
Everyone was generally very warm and friendly. There is an appreciation of the different backgrounds and skill sets of the vacation schemers. The firm viewed this as a positive and I certainly met many trainees from non-law backgrounds and their paths into law were very interesting and varied greatly. There is a strong sense of teamwork and camaraderie as everyone helped each other and were extremely generous with their time. There is a strong sense of a one-team effort.
Your Impressions
I throughout enjoyed my insight into the firm. The general impression of the firm is that of a firm with a positive collaborative culture and that they receive lots of interesting work. The insight I gained during the vacation scheme has confirmed this and I would be delighted to receive a training contract offer to continue at the firm. It certainly was clear that every vacation schemer felt the same and that we are all hoping to receive that offer.
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It is really important to spend a lot of time to fine tune and tailor your initial online application. As that is our one chance into the firm, it is crucial that no simple errors are made such as typing errors, grammatical errors and not answering the question accurately. Interview preparation is also key as the assessment Center process is quite robust in terms of the skills they test for and the number of inter
Details
Insight / Vacation Scheme (< 4 Weeks)
Legal/Law
London
July 2024