Fried Frank’s prestigious client base of major corporations, investment funds, financial institutions and business leaders consistently seeks our counsel across top-tier transactional and contentious matters.

With more than 800 lawyers located in key financial and business centers, we bring a pragmatic, business-oriented approach to every engagement — advising clients through the full life cycle of business, developing impactful, long-term relationships.

Fried Frank offers a premier training programme where trainees gain hands-on experience on transformative transactions and landmark matters that shape industries, markets and skylines. Over two years, trainees rotate across four practice areas, working alongside top partners, associates and business services professionals, with personalized mentorship ensures guiding them every step of the way.

Our program emphasizes the development of critical legal skills — including research, writing, negotiation and strategic thinking — through real-world experience on high-profile matters. Trainees also participate in workshops and seminars led by leading practitioners, ensuring they stay at the forefront of legal developments and industry trends.

At Fried Frank, trainees don’t just learn the law — they contribute to work that defines the firm’s reputation and impacts clients globally.

Find more information about the training contracts programe here: London Training Contracts Brochure.

Fried Frank offers currently does not offer vacation schemes.

Fried Frank offers a fresh and individualistic training programe, working as part of a close-knit team with a practical and hands-on approach to learning. Trainees will have direct access to a combination of US and UK expertise, working for clients on European and international transactions. Trainees will spend six months working with partners and associates across four departments, gaining a broad knowledge of the law to become a commercial partner to clients.

Our trainees spend their two-year training contract working with partners and associates across four departments, gaining a broad knowledge of the law on their way to becoming a commercial partner to our clients.

As well as on-the-job training from each department, all trainees receive quarterly 1-2-1 coaching and personal development training throughout their training contract via an external career coach. Trainees rotate between four seats, each six months long. During these seats, trainees have the opportunity to experience different practice areas and build on their experience and knowledge of the frim.

Practice areas where trainees can have a seat are:

• M&A and private equity
• corporate real estate
• corporate finance
• asset management
• antitrust

At Fried Frank we believe that feedback is key, and you will receive ongoing feedback from your seat supervisor, as well as other associates and partners within the team. The firm encourages trainees to take control of their training by actively seeking feedback and networking across the firm.

For all our future trainees we will provide support and sponsorship for them to complete their SQE1 and 2.  During the time they complete their SQE1 and 2 they will be provided a maintenace grant of £13,000

An inclusive and supportive environment is central to the culture of Fried Frank. Firm Chairman Kenneth Rosh chairs our Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging Council (DEIB), which works with our DEIB Department to increase the diversity of our workforce and ensure that Fried Frank is a place of inclusion and belonging, where everyone has equal access to opportunities so they can reach their full potential. Diversity is broadly defined as the visible and invisible aspects that make each person unique, and the idea that understanding and appreciating our different points of view leads to better, more robust solutions, greater engagement and superior client service. At Fried Frank, we value people for who they are and the unique perspectives they bring to our firm and to our clients. We have a longstanding tradition of celebrating differences.

The framework embeds the values of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging into the fundamentals of our firm culture around four

Key objectives:

Strengthening partner and business services Leader engagement

Developing firmwide inclusion skills

Embedding DEIB into policies and processes for people, clients and the community

Elevating Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) as catalysts for change

• M&A
• Private equity
• Asset management
• Finance
• Real estate
• Antitrust

• Corporate & Commercial

• London

• London

• Horizon Legal Advice Clinic
• LawWorks (the Solicitors Pro Bono Group)
• Schools Consent Project
• The Royal Courts of Justice Advice Bureau

• Aspiring Solicitors
• Inspire!
• InterLaw Diversity Forum
• PRIME