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Careers with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Explore Skadden's training contract and vacation scheme, and learn more about what's involved before you make an application. 

Vacation Schemes

Skadden’s training contracts are offered to students who participate in our vacation placement programme, which provides participants with first-hand experience working on actual global transactions. The programme also provides insight into the firm’s culture and atmosphere.

Each student is paired with an associate supervisor and trainee mentor who identify substantive and suitable assignments. Our vacation placement students divide their time between two practice areas, thereby gaining greater exposure to our work and provide invaluable perspective from Skadden’s lawyers. 

Social events allow vacation students to interact with each other and Skadden lawyers on a more informal level.

Our two-week placements are offered in the spring and summer. We remunerate vacation placement students £500 per week to assist with expenses. Undergraduate candidates need to have reached the penultimate year of their law degree studies or the final year for a non-law degree.

Training Contracts

Our training contract is divided into four seats, six months each. Trainees can sit in the following practice areas: Antitrust, Banking, Capital Market, Employment, Financial Institutions Group, Financial Regulations, Incentives, International Litigation and Arbitration, Investment Management Group, IT, IP, Tech and Cybersecurity, M&A, Private Equity, Restructuring and Tax.

In the first year of the training contract, we aim for each trainee to complete at least one seat in the Corporate group (Capital Markets, Financial Institutions Group, M&A, Private Equity). 

The second year provides the opportunity to gain exposure to other offices by undertaking an international secondment in our Brussels, Hong Kong or New York office.

Throughout your training contract, a qualified solicitor will mentor you and provide advice and guidance whenever required. You will receive regular performance reviews and appraisals from the training principal and your supervisor, who will take a proactive role in shaping your development and progression.

We pride ourselves on our broad and comprehensive training programme. You will have a regular training schedule.

Shortly after qualifying, associates attend Skadden’s firm-wide retreat in New York to participate in an intensive one week program (with associates in the U.S. and German offices) that provides business and legal skills training. 

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