Summer vacation schemes Archives

Top City firms confirm summer vacation schemes will stay online

Magic circle and US outfits stick to virtual programmes as COVID disruption continues
Mar 4 2021 9:12am
Clifford Chance launches year-round global virtual work experience programme

Exclusive: New approach means there’ll be no summer 2021 vacation scheme — but magic circle firm will continue to offer some in-office internships
Jul 7 2020 9:00am
Squire Patton Boggs and Osborne Clarke move summer vacation schemes online

Law firms continue to switch to virtual programmes amid virus disruption
Jun 8 2020 10:29am
DWF defers training contract start dates by six months

Thirty-one new joiners will now start in February
Jun 5 2020 9:41am
Cleary Gottlieb cancels summer vacation schemes

COVID-19: Hopes to reschedule for later this year
Jun 1 2020 9:17am
Linklaters announces two-week virtual vacation scheme with three weeks’ pay

COVID-19: Last of the magic fivesome to reveal student summer plans
May 21 2020 9:15am

Simmons & Simmons and Akin Gump summer vacation schemes move online

As Eversheds explores similar option
May 18 2020 9:25am
A&O follows Clifford Chance, Freshfields and Slaughters with virtual vacation scheme

Mayer Brown, White & Case and Travers Smith summer internships also move online
May 13 2020 9:09am
Herbert Smith Freehills cancels 2020 summer vacation schemes

Exclusive: Candidates instead being invited to interview for TCs, with those successful offered place on virtual scheme
May 12 2020 9:15am
Slaughters, Bakers, Bird & Bird, Skadden and Debevoise move to virtual vacation schemes

New online offerings to mirror in-office experience but will be shorter than originally planned
May 11 2020 9:31am
Deloitte scraps summer legal internships — offers interns £500 instead

Big Four player to run voluntary four-week virtual mentorship programme, as more law firms cancel vacation schemes in view of COVID-19
May 6 2020 11:24am
Freshfields and Taylor Wessing summer vacation schemes will go ahead — online

City law firms continue to switch to virtual programmes amid virus disruption
Apr 29 2020 10:48am

Pinsent Masons offers virtual summer vacation scheme

As Vinson & Elkins wraps up the first of its online programmes
Apr 15 2020 12:24pm
Hogan Lovells makes training contract offers early as it cancels summer vacation schemes

Exclusive: Some candidates offered winter vacation scheme places
Apr 9 2020 11:22am
COVID-19: Clifford Chance summer vacation scheme goes virtual

New online offering to feature networking sessions, cooking and yoga classes too
Apr 7 2020 4:53pm
Shoosmiths first firm to cancel 2020 summer vacation scheme amid COVID-19 disruption

Exclusive: Candidates will still be considered for training contracts
Mar 27 2020 11:00am

Top City firms confirm summer vacation schemes will stay online