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I thoroughly enjoyed the virtual experience. The highlights for me included meeting the managing partner and trainee partner at the regional office ( as well as all the trainees) and getting involved with the group project work. It was also interesting to...
This was a week of webinars with a presentation at the end (due to COVID). I really enjoyed the first week, and felt that a lot of time and effort was put into ensuring that each one of us got the most out of the scheme. It was a real shame that there was...
It was a highly informative week long internship. The talks were very engaging and there were opportunities to ask partners of the firm, even holding the highest of management positions, any questions I had. Granted, due to the restrictions posed by holdi...
I thoroughly enjoyed my internship the internship at DLA Piper for a number of reasons. Due to Covid-19, the placement was moved from being 3 weeks in office to being 1 week virtually. Despite this, the Graduate Recruitment and Management Team put togeth...
The internship was executed very well and was quite enjoyable. I received a breadth of information and talks from different areas of the firm. Although I lament the in-person scheme that should have been, the virtual experience was largely seamless and in...
The mixture of informative talks, partner presentations, Q&A sessions, office talks, social activities such as a quiz etc all allowed for a well balanced internship where I was able to learn a lot about the firm but also enjoy the process. Being able ...
It was a thoroughly enjoyable experience. It was great to meet such a variety of people both within the firm and the interns attending the scheme.
It was unfortunate that the internship could not take place in the usual format this year, but the firm managed to provide an insightful, challenging, and fun experience in spite of this. I still had the opportunity to network with both my peers and vario...
A welcome experience during a trying time. The 2020 virtual internship gave us a valuable insight into life at DLA Piper, taking us through the work each department does.
I found the virtual internship highly enjoyable and engaging. The firm is really down to earth in its approach to even formal experiences such as the internship. The recruitment team were very welcoming and made everything as relaxed as possible and were ...
I thoroughly enjoyed the whole experience! Despite the internship being virtual instead of in person, the graduate recruitment team managed to deliver an amazing week! We were made to feel comfortable and welcome from the very first morning and i almos...
I thoroughly enjoyed the week! The talks that were given were very interesting, the people I met and spoke to were lovely, and you could tell the graduate recruitment team had really tried to make it as similar as possible to the non-Covid internship. I o...
The insight was very enjoyable, and there was a variety of sessions available including networking with different departments of the firm.
I thoroughly enjoyed my virtual experience at DLA Piper. Obviously it was a shame that we could not complete the three week scheme as originally planned. However, the graduate recruitment team did a fantastic job of making the most of a bad situation. Com...
The experience was really well done considering the COVID situation, the Graduate Recruitment Team put together a very useful and insightful experience for all.
I really enjoyed the virtual internship. I felt like there was a good balance between informative content and interactive work. We were able to interact with people from all levels of the organisation which was very useful to get a good picture of what wo...
Despite the internship being online this year, I found it very enjoyable! The graduate recruitment team thoroughly planned our days, so we had a good balance between hearing talks from different people in the firm and completing group work. There were opp...
I thoroughly enjoyed the whole week. We were lucky enough to listen to a range of speakers from across the firm, gained an insight into different practice areas and learned more about the experience of being a trainee. We also had organised drop in sessio...
The 3 week summer internship was moved to a 1 week online virtual scheme. The Graduate Recruitment team worked really hard to organise a well structured, interesting and informative scheme, which involved many lawyers in the firm and covered a broad range...
