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Careers with Simmons & Simmons

Simmons & Simmons offer both a training contract and a vacation scheme. If the firm is recruiting for talent, these opportunities will appear below. 

Training Contract

We offer training contracts in London and Bristol, where you’ll spend two years discovering the innovation and collaborative approach we’re known for. Ideally placed to build a long-term career, you’ll uncover a world of high-end clients and gain immediate exposure to some of their most complex challenges. As well as moving through four six-month seats across our practice areas, you’ll also benefit from the Compass programme; our unique and progressive trainee skills academy that offers a combination of practical learning and online tools designed to support your journey through to qualification. 

We also offer training contracts in Dublin. Our trainee programme will see you complete your PPC course at Blackhall as well as 24 months’ work experience rotating through various practice groups. Through these seat rotations, you’ll soon find out where your interests lie. With dedicated support and training, you’ll work your way up to qualifying as an associate with us.

We want to hear from ambitious and curious future lawyers, who are ready to leave their mark. We’re looking for candidates who have around 120 UCAS points (BBB or equivalent) and are on course for a 2:1 in any degree subject. That said, academic performance isn’t everything: that’s why we look for raw talent and potential throughout our assessment process.

Vacation Schemes

Discover what it’s like to be a trainee lawyer with one of Simmons & Simmons vacation schemes. Over one, two or four weeks in London, Bristol or Dublin, you’ll experience the work, the reach and the day-to-day buzz of our international firm. Throw yourself into this full programme of social events and work experience, and you’ll get a taste for our firm and the work we do, from research to drafting, and meetings to departmental training.  

Simmons & Simmons offers the following schemes:

Winter vacation scheme (London): A one-week scheme aimed specifically at final year university students and graduates of any degree subject. 

Spring insight scheme (London): A two-day workshop for first year university students of any degree subject, as well as penultimate year non-law students. 

Summer vacation scheme (London): A two-week scheme open to penultimate and final year university students and graduates of any degree subject. 

Summer vacation scheme (Bristol): A two-week scheme open to penultimate and final year university students and graduates of any degree subject. 

Summer Internship (Dublin): A four-week scheme open to penultimate and final year university students and graduates of any degree subject. 

Candidates in Bristol are paid £450 per week, those in London are paid £500 per week and candidates in Dublin receive €525 per week. Candidates who join for a winter or summer scheme can be considered for a training contract with the firm. 

Candidates on the spring insight scheme receive £150 per day and can be fast tracked to an assessment centre for a vacation scheme the following year. 

Solicitor Apprenticeship

We offer a solicitor apprenticeship and are recruiting for apprentices to join our Bristol and London offices.

Qualify as a solicitor and earn while you learn through our six year solicitor apprenticeship programme. From day one, you’ll be immersed in life at Simmons and have a dedicated support network. Four days a week will be spent gaining practical work experience and one day a week studying with BPP University. By combining work and study, you’ll be able to put want you learn into practice through a variety of tasks and projects. You’ll spend time across multiple practice groups discovering the innovation and collaborative approach we’re known for.

During your studies, you’ll complete your LLB (Hons) Law and Legal Practice and go on to study towards the Solicitors Qualifying Examinations (SQE). On successful completion of the SQE, you will qualify as a solicitor at the end of the programme. 

We want to hear from ambitious and curious future lawyers, who are ready to leave their mark. School/College leavers require GCSE grades 4 or above with at least a 6 in Maths and English, plus A-Level grades at ABB (or equivalent).

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