Dentons

Dentons is the largest law firm in the world by footprint, but most secondment opportunities are with clients in the UK rather than overseas. Are you happy to consider a client secondment instead of an international one?

At Dentons, you’d be working across a broad client base, from major banks and financial institutions to clients in sectors such as retail, hospitality and rail transport, as well as public sector work through the firm’s HMG panel appointments. Does the breadth of that commercial and financial work appeal to you?

• Dentons is the largest law firm in the world by footprint, but most secondment opportunities are with clients in the UK rather than overseas. Are you happy to consider a client secondment instead of an international one?
• At Dentons, you’d be working across a broad client base, from major banks and financial institutions to clients in sectors such as retail, hospitality and rail transport, as well as public sector work through the firm’s HMG panel appointments. Does the breadth of that commercial and financial work appeal to you?

• Have not settled on an area yet and would rather train somewhere ranked across everything from rail rolling stock to hotels, sanctions and franchising than somewhere built on two or three strengths.
• Are you drawn to a firm where you can gain exposure across the full range of commercial practice, including banking and finance, real estate, retail, and sectors such as energy and transport?
• Want a say in the firm itself rather than just a desk in it, since junior colleagues co-chair the firm's diversity networks rather than simply attending them.
• Are interested in markets outside the usual western European and American axis, where the firm's emerging markets and Middle East work is a genuine strength rather than a side office.

• Nine seat areas exist across the firm but not all of them run in every office, so the office you join may narrow what you can actually sit in.
• The firm is vast but the trainee group in any one office is not, so the cohort you go through it with will be smaller than the firm's size suggests.
• As a trainee or solicitor apprentice, you’d rotate through seats across Dentons’ UK, Ireland and Middle East (UKIME) region, building a well-rounded commercial law experience while still having the chance to develop depth in the areas that interest you most.