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We’ll ask you to provide some personal information, including your educational background and any relevant work experience that you have. Don’t worry if you haven’t completed any legal work experience—we’re interested in any experience where you can demonstrate transferable skills. Please make sure you thoroughly check your application for any spelling or grammatical errors.
Alongside your application form you’ll need to complete an immersive assessment, which consists of behavioural questions, numerical and verbal reasoning questions, and video response questions.
The behavioural questions establish how you would react in different scenarios that you may find yourself in as a trainee, while the numerical and verbal reasoning questions test how you perform in typical trainee tasks. You will also be asked several video response questions, which allow you to explain your motivation for a career in law with Mayer Brown and ability in several key competencies. Your responses will be scored in relation to traits that will help you succeed at Mayer Brown, and to progress to the next stage of the application process you’ll need to meet or surpass our benchmark scores.
At the end of the assessment, you’ll receive a report which will help you understand how you performed and highlight any potential development opportunities. Please note that no legal knowledge is required to complete the assessment.
If you are successful following the Immersive Assessment, you’ll be invited to an assessment day where you'll take part in a variety of group and individual assessments. Your experience at an assessment day will vary slightly depending on which position you apply for.
Vacation scheme assessment centres will take place January through February in 2026 and will be held in the London office of Mayer Brown.
Please apply online at our website.
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Mr Kieran Bennett
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Online application formMethod of assessment
- Assessment centre
- Partner interview
- Psychometric testing
- Video interview
- Written exercise
Let's talk Mayer Brown.
We’re one of the world’s largest full service law firms with locations in 22 major cities across the Americas, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. As one of the first firms to develop a global platform, we’re an international leader.
In Brazil, the firm has an association with Tauil & Chequer Avogados. Through the association, the extensive international expertise of its lawyers and its presence in the leading financial centres around the world, Mayer Brown provides high-quality legal advice and client-focused solutions to support many of the world’s leading businesses, governments and individuals. This includes a significant proportion of the Fortune 100, FTSE 100 and DAX and Hang Seng Index and organisations in the banking, insurance, communications, industrials, energy, construction, professional services, pharmaceuticals, chemicals and mining sectors.
We're a global law firm but our offices still maintain an open and inclusive culture with tightly-knit teams. When you train with us, you’ll be one of 30 trainees and you’ll have the opportunity to assist our teams on matters that may be multidisciplinary, cross-border, complex and high profile in nature.
Training with us means high levels of responsibility with extensive opportunities to represent clients across a variety of sectors. From leading investment banks to insurance companies and major corporates to hedge funds, the clients we advise are without parallel and our teams work collaboratively to help them achieve their goals.
While hard work is the norm, we offer a great working environment and friendly culture. As a trainee, you’ll be given the support you need to reach your full potential.
Our lawyers practise in a wide range of areas including: corporate; banking and finance; litigation and dispute resolution; real estate; pensions and employment; antitrust and competition; tax; restructuring; and intellectual property. The firm advises many of the world's largest companies, including a significant proportion of the Fortune 100, FTSE 100 and DAX and Hang Seng Index organizations from the worlds of banking, insurance, communications, industrials, energy, construction, professional services, media, pharmaceuticals, chemicals and mining.
To find out what it is like to work at Mayer Brown International LLP read the firm's Meet the Lawyer profile.
Our vacation schemes are the main pipeline for our training contracts each year. We run two two-week vacation schemes each year: one in spring and one in summer. Both are based in our London office and applications are welcome from law and non-law undergraduates and graduates. During our vacation schemes, you will assist partners and senior associates on real deals to give you firsthand experience of life in a City law firm. You will sit in one of our core fee-earning departments and you will also attend skills sessions which support your own professional development and provide more insight into the firm. There will also be a number of social activities organised.
Applications can be made from 1 September 2025 and must be made online via our website before 16 December 2025.
A training contract is your opportunity to put your knowledge to use in a professional setting. Over two years, London trainees will complete a range of seats to ensure they have a well-rounded training contract. Our graduate recruitment team will ensure that your selection meets the firm’s and the SRA’s requirements.
For a global law firm, our London office remains a tightly knit team with an open and supportive culture. You will be given opportunities to assist on matters which may be multi-disciplinary, cross-border, complex and high-profile in nature. Trainees are given high levels of responsibility, case management and client contact from an early stage.
Applications can be made from 1 September 2025 and must be made online via our website by 31 March 2026.
If you obtain a training contract offer prior to beginning the SQE, then the firm will cover the cost of the SQE preparatory course and exams, and provide a maintenance grant of £20,000. The firm asks all SQE students to complete the SQE in London. Our preferred provider is BPP.
At Mayer Brown, we are committed to creating a work environment that offers every member of our team the opportunity and support needed to succeed. First, it’s the right thing to do. Second, it enables us to serve our clients more effectively. It’s integral to our strategy to deliver the exceptional.
We share with our clients the belief that teams with different viewpoints and perspectives produce more innovative and robust solutions. We recruit the highest-calibre people, who bring their own unique and varied talents, experiences and insights, enriching our workplace and our ability to exceed expectations.
Mayer Brown aims to create a work environment in which professional development and success are determined only by an individual’s ability and commitment; where we respect, celebrate and embrace our differences; and in which shared values of excellence and teamwork unite us—enabling us to better serve our clients.
We want to provide a platform for the success and growth of our lawyers and business services professionals. That advancement could manifest in a senior global leadership position or leadership in local practices and departments or on client or industry teams.
The firm will sponsor your visa and support you through the whole visa sponsorship process.
- Corporate & securities
- Banking & finance
- Real estate
- Litigation & dispute resolution
- Commercial disputes
- Construction disputes & international arbitration
- Competition
- Antitrust
- Restructuring
- Employment
- Pensions
- Intellectual property
- Tax
- Corporate & Commercial
- General Commercial
Practice Areas
Extra info
Phone: 020 3130 3000
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.mayerbrownfutures.com
| Work placement: | Yes |
| Number of vacation schemes: | 30 |
| Minimum qualification: | A minimum of 2.1 degree or equivalent |
| First-year trainee salary: | £55,000 |
| Second-year trainee salary: | £60,000 |
| NQ salary: | £150,000 |
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| Training programme applications: | 2,158 (2025) |
| Retention rate: | 80% (2025) |
| Has client secondments: | Yes |
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| Has overseas secondments: | Yes |
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- Brasília
- Charlotte
- Chicago
- Houston
- Los Angeles
- New York
- Palo Alto
- San Francisco
- Rio de Janeiro
- Salt Lake City
- Sao Paulo
- Vitoria
- Washington DC
- Hong Kong
- Singapore
- Tokyo
- Brussels
- Dusseldorf
- Frankfurt
- London
- Paris
- Dubai
- London
- A4ID
- Afghan Pro Bono Initiative
- Amicus
- Islington Law Centre
- Kids in Need of Defense
- Kids in Need of Defense (KIND)
- PILnet (Public Interest Law)
- Prince’s Trust
- RCJ Advice
- Save the Children
- Shelter
- TrustLaw Connect
- UK collaborative pro bono plan
- UnLtd
- Whitechapel Mission
- Working Families
- Z2K
- Zacchaeus 2000 Trust
- Aspiring Solicitors
- Black Solicitors Network
- Breaking Barriers
- Bright Network
- City Century
- City Solicitors Horizons
- Disability Confident Leader
- DiversCity
- Legal Apprenticeships
- MyKindaFuture
- MyPlus Consulting
- Pathways to Law
- SEO London
- Social Mobility Foundation
- Sutton Trust
- Working Families
