Clyde & Co is a leading global law firm, helping organisations successfully navigate risk and maximise opportunity in the sectors that underpin global trade and commercial activity and enable global prosperity, namely: insurance, aviation, marine, construction, energy, trade and natural resources. 

We’re continuously developing client relationships, growing our teams and opening new offices across the globe. Collaboration and teamwork are at the heart of our culture, and we support you to embrace every opportunity. With over 65 offices in 26 countries, wherever you’re based, you’ll be empowered to accelerate your career doing interesting, stimulating work, achieving your potential and delivering exceptional outcomes.

You’re probably wondering what makes our early careers programmes different from any other law firm? Well, our rich learning experience coupled with our opportunities to work directly with clients, while being supported and guided by colleagues enables us to stand out. In return, we ask you to bring your ambition and collaborative mind to support the firm’s continued success and growth.

London and Scotland vacation schemes

Our London and Scotland vacation schemes are the perfect opportunity for you to experience life with our firm. You’ll spend two weeks with us and, although some of your time on the scheme will be about you getting to know what we do and who we work with, you’ll have plenty of time to get to know our trainees, associates and partners too.

Applications deadline: 6 January 2025

Clyde & Co Bright Futures programme:

Applications deadline: 6 January 2025

At Clyde & Co, we strongly believe the legal sector should be accessible for all and should have as few barriers as possible. That’s why we’re delighted to announce that this year we’ll once again be running our Bright Futures programme.

Our weeklong Bright Futures programme is aimed at people from lower socioeconomic status groups who have not yet had an opportunity to gain commercial work experience. The purpose of this programme is to develop soft skills and prepare students for the world of work. They also have the opportunity to secure an offer on one of our vacation schemes the following year.

As a trainee here, you’ll have the opportunity to work with our household-name clients, spend time in an overseas office, or take up secondments in areas of specific interest. If you have ambition, we’ll help you harness it and use it to create a career without boundaries.

Training contracts in Manchester are obtained exclusively by internal paralegals with no route through a vacation scheme and for our London/Guildford training contracts, these are obtained by internal paralegals OR through our vacation schemes.

Graduates are only eligible to apply for our paralegal academy, or Bristol training contracts. You can apply with an LPC, but please note that for trainees we now follow the SQE route.

For our direct training contract vacancies in England, which are currently only in Bristol, you can apply with an LPC. However, we will require you to complete part of the SQE (SQE2 and our SQE+ programme). This is to ensure that from 2025, all our trainees start the training contract having received the same training. We would arrange and pay for these courses.

If you want to apply for a role in England and qualify in England and Wales, you may need to complete parts of the PGDL (law conversion course) – we’d recommend contacting the SRA (Solicitors Regulation Authority) for further advice. All trainees will need to complete the SQE. Clyde & Co will arrange any pay for this after you are offered.

We cover the cost of tuition fees and provide a maintenance grant for the PGDL/SQE. We cannot reimburse expenses for completed courses, but if you are currently studying, we can cover costs and provide a pro-rated maintenance grant from the point you accept a training contract offer.

We have been offering legal apprenticeships (paralegal, chartered legal executive and solicitor apprenticeships) for numerous years and have an apprentice population in our Guildford, London and Manchester offices.

We recruit and retain our staff with the aim of being representative of the communities and cultures in which we work.

"Celebrating difference" is one of our core values. To us, promoting and sustaining a more inclusive and diverse workplace is essential to how we operate. We believe our differences result in a greater achievement. And there is always work to do. We are always striving to increase representation of people from underrepresented communities at all levels.

We pay full fees for the GDL and SQE as well as a maintenance grant.

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• Employment
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• Catastrophic injury
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• Property
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• Corporate & Commercial
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• Derry

• Afghan Pro Bono Initiative
• Amicus
• Citizens Advice Bureau
• Kids in Need of Defense
• Kids in Need of Defense (KIND)
• LawWorks (the Solicitors Pro Bono Group)
• Legal Advice Centres
• Not Beyond Redemption
• PILnet (Public Interest Law)
• Schools Consent Project
• South Westminster Legal Advice Centre
• The Royal Courts of Justice Advice Bureau
• TrustLaw Connect
• Ukraine Response Project

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• Mindful Business Charter
• Rare Recruitment
• upReach
• Uptree