December 2025

Application Dates

Vacation Schemes

FirmClosing DateEligibility
Baker McKenzie1/12/25Penultimate year students, final year students and graduates
Eversheds Sutherland1/12/25Penultimate/final year law students, final year non-law students and graduates
Freshfields1/12/25Penultimate year undergraduate students
Herbert Smith 
Freehills Kramer
1/12/25Penultimate year students, final year students and graduates
Linklaters3/12/25Penultimate year students, final year students and graduates
Bates Wells5/12/25Penultimate/final year law students, final year non-law students and graduates
Macfarlanes5/12/25Penultimate year students, final year students and graduates
Slaughter and May5/12/25Penultimate year undergraduate students 
Sullivan & Cromwell5/12/25Penultimate/final year law students, final year non-law students and graduates
Wilkie Farr 
& Gallagher
10/12/25Penultimate/final year law students, final year non-law students and graduates

Training Contracts

FirmClosing DateEligibility
Freshfields1/12/25Penultimate year students, final year students and recent graduates
Linklaters3/12/25Penultimate year students, final year students and graduates
Shakespeare
Martineau
7/12/25Final year students and graduates
Goodwin12/12/25Penultimate/final year law students, final year non-law students and graduates
Fieldfisher19/12/25Penultimate/final year law students, final year non-law students and graduates

Mini Pupillages

ChambersClosing DateEligibility
Twenty Essex8/12/25Third year law students and PGDL students in second term
Francis Taylor
Building
15/12/25Law students in second year and beyond and PGDL students
Gray’s Inn
Tax Chambers
15/12/25All law students and students towards the end of a non-law degree
Atkin
Chambers
31/12/25Law students in second year and beyond and non-law students in third year and beyond

Private Practice Paralegal Roles

Agency
(Practice Area)
Closing DateEligibility
Gemini Recruitment
(Housing Law)
7/12/25Law degree and a years’ experience as a housing paralegal
Gemini Recruitment
(Clinical Negligence)
7/12/25Law degree and a years’ experience in clinical negligence
G2 Legal Limited
(Conveyancing)
12/12/25One years’ experience as a conveyancing paralegal 

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