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Fieldfisher is a European law firm with market leading practices in many of the world's most dynamic sectors. We are an exciting, forward-thinking organisation with a particular focus on technology, finance and financial services, energy and natural resources, life sciences and media.

Our growing European network of offices supports an international client base alongside our Silicon Valley and China colleagues. We also work in a number of other jurisdictions through dedicated country teams.

Among our clients we count social media sites and high street coffee chains as well as pharmaceutical, life sciences and medical devices companies, energy suppliers, banks and technology leaders.

Clients choose to work with us because we deliver commercial, pragmatic and innovative solutions through our exceptional legal expertise and experience, on time and on budget.

Our network has more than 1,550 people working across 25 offices providing highly commercial advice based on an in-depth understanding of our clients' needs.

We operate across our offices in Amsterdam, Beijing, Belfast, Birmingham, Bologna, Brussels, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, London, Luxembourg, Manchester, Munich, Milan, Paris, Rome, Shanghai, Turin, Venice and Silicon Valley.

In June 2019, Fieldfisher was awarded a five-star ranking for client service by the Legal 500. It was one of only five firms in the top 25 list of UK-headquartered firms to receive five-stars based on client feedback.

2018 saw Fieldfisher named Law Firm of the year at the Legal Business Awards. In 2017, we were named Law Firm of the Year in Western Germany at the Juve Awards, and Law firm of the Year at the British Legal Awards.

The firm was ranked in the list of top 20 most innovative law firms in Europe in the FT Innovative Lawyers Awards 2018.

Fieldfisher's Condor Alternative Legal Solutions won the award for ‘New Business and Service Delivery Models’ at the FT Innovative Lawyers Europe Awards 2017.  We also won Personal Injury Team of the Year at the Solicitors Journal Awards 2017.

We have chosen University of Law to be our preferred provider of the GDL and LPC. We will pay course fees in full and provide a competitive maintenance grant. For more details please visit our website: www.careers.fieldfisher.com/graduates.

The diversity access scheme provides students from underrepresented groups who are dedicated to a career in law the opportunity to apply for summer work experience in our Manchester, London and Birmingham offices. This scheme is only available to students who are currently studying an undergraduate or post-graduate course at The University of Law.

The training contract is split into four seats of six months' duration and our range of practice areas enable us to offer outstanding opportunities for training. Trainees are treated as a valued part of the team and sit near their supervising partner or senior associate in our new open plan office. Our trainees benefit from high quality work as they are encouraged to take responsibility at an early stage of their training contracts. Trainees have the opportunity to choose seats within nearly all of our practice areas, popular choices include IP and technology, PI and medical negligence, corporate and commercial, banking and finance, regulatory and real estate. We also offer trainee seats in a wide range of other areas including public sector, litigation, employment and competition. Also popular are our trainee secondments to Viacom, the BBC and our Silicon Valley office. We invest highly in the development and training of all our trainees and provide good quality work within a friendly and a supportive working culture.

In addition to formal external courses, there are a wide range of internal seminars and training events. We believe that this is just one of the reasons that we have such good retention rates. We are proud of our friendly, relaxed and supportive working environment and there are always numerous sporting and social events to take part in throughout the year.

Benefits include: 25 days' holiday, life assurance, season ticket loan, medical insurance, GP service, as well as rooftop yoga and fitness classes. We operate a flexible benefits scheme where you have the ability to flex your benefits according to your lifestyle (for example having more holiday or less insurance cover). We also offer our newly-qualified solicitors four weeks' unpaid leave to mark the end of their training contracts.

• Banking
• asset finance
• Commercial IP
• Corporate
• Derivatives
• Dispute resolution
• Employment
• pensions
• Financial regulation
• IP & technology Protection & enforcement
• Personal injury & medical negligence
• Real estate
• Regulatory
• Structured finance
• Tax
• Technology
• Outsourcing
• Privacy

• Corporate & Commercial
• General Commercial

• Africa
• Amsterdam
• Beijing
• Belfast
• Birmingham
• Bologna
• Brussels
• Dublin
• Düsseldorf
• Frankfurt
• Guangzhou
• Hamburg
• London
• Luxembourg
• Manchester
• Milan
• Munich
• Paris
• Rome
• Shanghai
• Turin
• Venice
• Silicon Valley

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• Prisoners’ Advice Service
• Queen Mary Legal Advice Centre

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