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by Clifford Chance
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SPARK 2023
Description
Job Title: SPARK London 2022
Location: 10 Upper Bank Street, London
Salary: £450 per week
Eligibility
SPARK is open to all first year law students on a three degree, second year law students on a four year degree, or penultimate year non-law undergraduate students. You are not eligible to apply to any other roles (Training Contract or IGNITE).
If you are successful on SPARK, you may be invited to interview for a Training Contract and receive an offer in the weeks after the scheme.
Please be aware that we will only review your application form. If you upload your CV, this will pre-populate some of your application however your CV will not be reviewed. Please do NOT upload a covering letter as this will not be reviewed.
You need to be available for the week commencing 19th June 2023 and/or the week commencing 17th July 2023 as your SPARK scheme will take place in one of these weeks.
Summary
Clifford Chance is one of the world's leading law firms, offering local and global clients expert advice on all aspects of commercial law. The firm has unrivalled scale and depth of legal resources across five continents and five core practice areas.
SPARK is an award-winning and unique opportunity to gain an unparalleled introduction to the world of commercial law, undertaking classroom-based learning alongside work shadowing in a practice area.
Experience and skills
You do not need to have prior legal experience or a law degree to apply to us. As SPARK may lead to a Training Contract, we will expect you to be a problem-solver with strong communication skills and commercial acumen. The competencies that we look for in our SPARK interns (and Trainees) include:
The details for the Training Contract are:
Job Title: Trainee Solicitor
Job Type: Fixed Term
Location: 10 Upper Bank Street, London
Salary: £50,000 (first year) / £55,000 (second year)
SPARK Application process:
Applications open on 15th August 2022 and close at 11:59pm on 9th February 2023. We do not recruit on a rolling basis, and we do not review applications until after the deadline has passed.
We will only review the information on your application form at the point of submission - any changes made after this will not be taken into consideration so please refrain from making any changes after you have submitted.
Shortly after submitting your application, if you fall into one of the groups eligible to apply, you will receive an email from us asking you to complete an online Watson Glaser critical reasoning assessment. This takes approximately 30 minutes and should be completed within 5 days of receiving our email with instructions.
The assessment centres for SPARK will take place in-person from the week commencing 27th February and 6th March 2023.
About Clifford Chance
Clifford Chance is one of the world's pre-eminent law firms, with an incredible depth and breadth of expertise that spans five continents. As a single, fully integrated, global partnership, the firm prides itself on its approachable, collegial, team-based way of working, and on the positive difference it makes to its clients right around the world.
With thousands of lawyers working from dozens of offices across the globe, Clifford Chance offers expert advice on all aspects of commercial law. And strives to exceed the expectations of its clients, which include corporates from all the commercial and industrial sectors, governments, regulators, trade bodies and not-for-profit organisations.
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Applications may close before the deadline, so please apply early to avoid disappointment.
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