Vacation Scheme 2026

Our vacation scheme 

We are proud of our vacation scheme, which fully integrates candidates into working life in the London office. In 2025, 100% of those offered a training contract following the vacation scheme accepted our offer.

We have up to 20 places (in total) on our paid spring and summer schemes. During your two weeks with us, you will share an office with a partner and an associate. You will undertake real, meaningful work and we will provide training that will enable you to showcase your potential. We hope that by the end of the two weeks, you will have met most of our people at our vacation scheme-specific workshops, seminars and social events. 

You will be supported throughout your time with us, both by a partner mentor, your supervisors, a trainee buddy and our graduate recruitment team. You will be paid £750 per week. 

How to apply

We recruit approximately six future trainee solicitors from our spring and summer vacation schemes. We are looking for those who can start their training contract in September 2028. 

Our application process has four stages: online application form, video interview, virtual written analytical exercise and partner interview. 

The deadline for submitting the online application form is midday on 10 December 2025. Successful applications will be invited to a video interview and, if successful at this stage, will be invited to complete a written exercise, which is completed and marked anonymously to ensure fairness. Our final stage of recruitment is a CV-blind interview with partners. At all stages, applicants will be informed of their outcome by email, in a timely manner

Please go to https://www.willkie.com/careers/legal-professional/early-careers/discover-more-and-apply/united-kingdom#country for more information and to apply. For any questions, please connect with Gemma Baker, Senior Manager, Graduate Recruitment, at graduaterecruitment@willkie.com