Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Opportunities

You will do challenging, engaging tasks that give you the opportunity to make your mark and progress your career.

Opportunities 

Expect a bright future. Clients from across the globe seek out Freshfields for our successful track record in complex mandates and our ability to add value to everything we do.

Expect amazing opportunities. You’ll be helping the world’s largest corporations, financial institutions and governments overcome their most complex challenges, and realise their potential in a rapidly changing world.

Vacation Scheme Opportunities

Spring Scheme

This two-day scheme will help you develop your understanding of our selection process and the skills you need to demonstrate to secure a place on our vacation scheme. Following this workshop, you may be invited to be fast-tracked for a vacation scheme interview commencing in 2022. This workshop is open to both law and non-law students in their first year of an undergraduate degree.

Application window: 4 October 2021 – 17 February 2022

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Dispute Resolution 6-month Internships in Dubai

Application deadline: 5 March 2022 

We are looking for candidates to join our market leading dispute resolution practice in Dubai for six-month internships commencing in August, September, December 2022 and January 2023. Your role as a junior member of the practice will be to assist with all aspects of the department’s caseload. An internship in our dispute resolution team will expose you to a wide-range of cross-border work, including some of the most complex, challenging and interesting projects and risk management/disputes in the market.

Practice Area - Our focus is on risk management and the resolution of disputes for our clients. The globalisation of business has resulted in more cross-border risks and disputes requiring high quality and co-ordinated advice.  The increased wealth and dynamism of Middle Eastern economies over the last decade has spurred a significant expansion in cross-border investment and trade involving countries in the region.  This, in turn, led to a dramatic increase in the number of cross-border risks and disputes involving the Middle East, which in 2009 led the firm to establish a dispute resolution practice based in Dubai.

There are three pillars to our dispute resolution practice:

• Commercial disputes: commercial arbitration, investor-State dispute settlement (investment treaty arbitration), DIFC/ADGM court litigation, managing onshore local litigation across the region and risk advisory work;

• Major projects: construction arbitration, major projects structuring and contract negotiation and risk advisory work;

• Global investigations: internal investigations, regulatory investigations, risk assessment and compliance related advice and general risk advisory work (covering business ethics and integrity issues and corporate economic crime, including bribery, corruption, money laundering, sanctions, fraud, etc.).

Our firm has a pre-eminent reputation in all three areas of practice. 

Key Requirements

• Outstanding undergraduate and/or postgraduate law-related qualifications
• English language skills to a business standard is essential
• Arabic language skills to a business standard is desirable but not essential
• Work experience at a leading international law firm is desirable but not essential
• A demonstrable interest in international arbitration, major projects or global investigations would be advantageous
• Commitment to work in our Dubai office for a total duration of six months

Remuneration

• Your salary will be AED 10,500 per month 
• You will be provided with accommodation in a serviced apartment in Dubai for the duration of your internship 
• You will be provided with a return economy class airfare from the nearest port in your home country to Dubai at the start and end of your internship 
• The Firm will also meet the costs of your residence visa, work permit and any other licenses required to work and live in Dubai 
• You will accrue two days of annual leave per month to be used within your six month internship and will be provided with medical insurance for the duration of your internship

Application Process

Please include all of the following documents as part of your application: 

• CV
• Academic transcripts
• Names of two referees (or two written references)
• Personal statement 

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Training Contract Opportunities

Our unique eight-seat training contract offers you a wide breadth of experience across our many areas of law. All trainees take at least one seat in dispute resolution and at least two seats in global transactions (across corporate, finance and real estate). You can choose other seats in: antitrust, competition and trade; people and reward; and tax.

Summer application window: 1 June – 14 July 2022

Who can apply:

• penultimate and final-year undergraduate law students (UK law degree)
• law graduates (UK law degree)
• GDL graduates

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Resources

For more information on the firm and applications see the Freshfields UK Graduates page.