Summer Vacation Scheme 2025

Dechert offers a world of opportunity through our global platform, top-notch training and development programmes and a collaborative and inclusive culture. As a London trainee solicitor, you will be encouraged to find your passion and cultivate your skills. Our ultimate goal is for you to experience what it’s like to be a part of our community.

Each year we recruit trainee solicitors from our three vacation schemes. We offer places on our schemes to penultimate year law undergraduates, all final year undergraduates (both law and non-law), all graduates, post-graduates, and career changers. Vacation Scheme students sit within our different practices doing real work for our lawyers, including research, drafting, attending meetings and training sessions.

Before you begin your vacation scheme, we will ask for your practice area preferences and try to place you in your chosen groups. You will be allocated a supervisor (an associate or partner), and a trainee buddy, and will receive work from people at all levels from across the group. Social events are also an important part of Dechert’s vacation schemes, as they enable you to build relationships with Dechert trainees, associates, and partners.