- Deadlines:
Training contract to commence 2022: 26/06/2020 Summer work placement: 10/01/2020 Other deadlines
Overview
- Address: 1 Scott Place, 2 Hardman Street, Manchester,
M3 3AA - Phone: 0333 320 2220
- Email: trainees@dwf.law
- Web: www.dwf.law/graduate
| Vacancies: | 35 |
|---|---|
| Trainees: | 86 |
| Partners: | 321 |
| Staff: | 3000 |
| Work placement: | Yes |
| Number of work placements: | 30 |
| Minimum qualification: | 2.1 in any subject, AAB in A levels/equivalent or AAABB in Scottish Highers |
| Start salary: | £22,000-£38,000-varies by location (figures exclude Belfast) |
| Sponsorship: | Full grant for LPC fees |
Remember to cite LawCareers.Net on your application form if you apply to DWF Group Plc.
Application details and method of selection
Please see below an outline of our application openings and deadlines. All applications must be made online via www.dwf.law/graduate.
Training contract applications open: Monday 1 October 2018
Training contract deadline 2021 start: Friday 5 July 2019
Vacation scheme applications open: Monday 1 October 2018
Vacation scheme 2019 deadline: Friday 4 January 2019
Open day deadline: Friday 2 November 2018
Find out more and network with recruiters and lawyers from DWF Group PLC at the LawCareersNetLIVE Manchester student conference on Friday 29 November 2019. Apply before midnight on Wednesday 30 October 2019 to be considered for a place.
Panel interview
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Firm description and career prospects
We are a global legal business, transforming legal services through our people for our clients. Led by managing partner and CEO Andrew Leaitherland, we have over 26 key locations and 2,800 people delivering services and solutions that go beyond expectations.
By questioning traditions and thinking beyond conventions, we achieve outstanding levels of innovation. We have received recognition for our work by the Financial Times who named us as one of Europe's most innovative legal advisers, and we have a range of stand-alone consultative services, technology and products in addition to the traditional legal offering.
We're leading the way, in the legal sector, by adding value that goes beyond the traditional legal advisor role though our Connected Services. Connected Services is a division of DWF that contains a range of independent businesses that work alongside, support and deliver products and services to our legal teams and clients. Each of the businesses within the division has been set up to offer a complete service designed to help clients better manage risk, reputation, cost, time and resources.
Sponsorship
DWF sponsors the LPC and the Scottish Diploma.
Work placements
The two-week vacation scheme gives you the chance to work with partners, associates and trainees across two different practice groups. You'll work on live legal matters and will be given responsibility right from the start.
This is combined with a variety of internal workshops and presentations, helping you understand DWF as a business. You'll also complete a group project that's designed to aid your professional development and provide you with some of the essential skills of a successful commercial lawyer.
As well as gaining fantastic experience, you'll also be paid reasonably for your time on the vacation scheme.
The deadline to apply is Friday 4 January 2019.
Training contract programme
At DWF, we use our values to help define and reinforce our culture and to enable us to recruit, retain and develop the highest quality people. This is reflected in our training contract, where our future trainees are made to feel part of the DWF team from the moment of offer. Once within the business, our trainees get a high level of responsibility in terms of legal work and exposure to business development and CSR. There are opportunities to learn from leading legal, technical and sector experts, and all our trainees are supported to go beyond their full potential with a range of training, practical day-to-day working and in-house learning and workshops. Many of our trainees also have the opportunity to complete a client secondment.
The deadline to apply for a training contract commencing in 2021 is Friday 5 July 2019.
Seat options
Casualty, catastrophic personal injury, insurance, occupational health, professional indemnity, commercial insurance, claims, banking, commercial, corporate, corporate tax, pensions, private client, construction, infrastructure and projects, planning, real estate, business restructuring, commercial litigation, employment, finance litigation, insured litigation, real estate litigation, regulatory
Type of practice
Corporate & Commercial, General Commercial
Work areas
Offices
Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Newcastle, London, Milton Keynes, Bristol, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin, Brussels, Paris, Berlin, Cologne, Munich, Milan, Dubai, Chicago, Toronto, Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Newcastle (New South Wales), Singapore
Probono initiatives
ProHelp
Diversity access schemes
Brokerage Citylink, PRIME, Rare Recruitment, Social Mobility Foundation, Stonewall, Working Families
Insights
News
You can read more news about DWF Group Plc here.
BT lawyers moving to DWF under new partnership plans
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Manchester University students create legal advice centre app
An app has been developed by law students at Manchester University that allows users to find help when legal advice centres are closed.
Law firms partner with University of Manchester to develop lawtech skills benchmark
An innovative partnership between leading law firms, barristers’ chambers and the University of Manchester is developing the field of lawtech with plans to introduce a new, specialist qualification that sets the skills standard for lawyers working with legal technology.
LawCareers.Net Training & Recruitment Awards 2019: the results
Representatives from 65 law firms across the UK gathered at Grace Hall in Central London last night to celebrate the winners of the 16th annual LawCareers.Net Training & Recruitment Awards.
Nine more firms sign up to Mindful Business Charter
Nine law firms have signed up to the Mindful Business Charter, which pledges to change avoidable working practices that have a negative impact on employees’ mental health.
Hard work of students recognised at LawCareers.Net fifth annual Student Law Society Awards
On Thursday 14 March 2019, the annual LawCareers.Net Student Law Society Awards, sponsored by Norton Rose Fulbright, brought together students, recruiters, partners and trainees with the LawCareers.Net team at Painters’ Hall in London.
LCN Training & Recruitment Awards 2019: nominees announced
We are delighted to bring you details of those firms and individuals nominated for the 16th annual LawCareers.Net Training & Recruitment Awards. The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony at Grace Hall in London on 16 May 2019.
DWF on course for stock market flotation
Global firm DWF could soon become the largest UK-based law firm to float on the stock market, its chairman has said.
Applications open for LawCareersNetLIVE immersive one-day conferences
Applications are now open for the LawCareersNetLIVE careers conferences taking place later this year.
LawCareers.Net Training & Recruitment Awards: the results
Central London was crackling with excitement tonight as representatives from over 60 top law firms convened at IET London: Savoy Place to find out who would be the winners of the prestigious LawCareers.Net Training & Recruitment Awards 2018.
Diary
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Deadlines
Meet the Lawyer
DWF Group Plc
- Mahesh Vara
Newly qualified solicitor Mahesh Vara discusses training at DWF and what it was like to be involved in major corporate finance and real estate deals from the get go. Read his profile for more on how junior solicitors participate in business development, how to deal with mistakes during your training contract and advice on succeeding during the application process.
Meet the Recruiter
DWF Group Plc
- Sarah Tucker
A key part of Sarah Tucker’s role at DWF is developing good relationships with vacation scheme and training contract candidates over the multiple stages of the firm’s recruitment process. Read on for her advice and insights.
Vacation Scheme Insider
Zainab Bhadelia
Zainab Bhadelia studied her undergraduate degree at the University of Virginia where she majored in commerce, before moving to the UK to study the GDL and LPC at BPP. Her vacation scheme at DWF took place in Summer 2018.
- When: Summer 2018
- Subject: LPC
- University: BPP University Law School
