Vacation Scheme Student Review

The vacation scheme was extremely useful, it provided many opportunities to find out about what a career in law truly entails and ultimately confirmed my interest through presentations, networking and hands on work.

I felt extremely valued, the firm only took on 15 students and each of us had a partner mentor and trainee buddy both of whom took the time to get to know us. They really made an effort to make us feel welcome through a number of social events too.

I received a lot of guidance. My trainee buddy was particularly useful in providing various roles in order to give me as well rounded a view of a legal career as possible. Obviously my partner mentor was busy at many times, however he was always available to answer any questions and just speak to me about my interests.

The experience made me a lot more confident in terms of providing me with an ability to show off my skills. Coming from a science background I wouldn't say the work directly translates but it did provide me with the confidence in the fact that I was successful in obtaining a competitive scheme.

The insight was brilliantly structured. From day 1 we had a timetable that was very much stuck to and allowed for opportunities to experience as much of the work as possible within 8 days. They also understood that the hands on work would be the best way to get experience and factored that in by giving us a lot of time to do that.

The firm was extremely friendly, it is fairly large but also small enough that everyone knows each other and gets along. It has a real family feel to it.

I can say for sure that a lot of effort was put into the scheme. The investment given by each department was noticeable and really made me feel valued. They provided opportunities for training in a number of areas, including resources, IT and practice area specific training.

I think it gave a very representative view of the firm in that it is a really friendly place where people value each other, all the while understanding that hard work is the basis of it all, but hard work really is rewarded.

I tried to get as much exposure as possible to people at the firm and this gave me a real sense of the culture. I would email and meet employees for coffees in order to get different opinions but they all seemed to have the same consensus.

Well the content confirmed that I wanted to enter into a legal career so I would say very valuable!

£300 a week.

Huge amounts of networking opportunities. Pretty much every day but you were also free to network yourself.

Amazing, we had a numerous trainee socials including a dinner and ice skating trip at Somerset House as well as being invited to the firm's annual winter ball.

Yes, there are many clubs and societies, the firm offers music lessons, it has sports teams and numerous other activities.

Definitely!