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Salary

  • First Year £52,000
  • Second Year £57,000

Direct Training Contract 2026/2027

Ashurst

  • Salary

    • First Year £52,000
    • Second Year £57,000
  • Type of firm

    International Law Firms

  • Location

    London

  • Vacancies

    40-45

  • Deadline

    29/03/2024

We will be accepting applications to start in September 2026 and March 2027 from 8 January 2024.

Application Criteria: You should be on track to achieve a strong 2:1 (or equivalent) in your undergraduate degree. If you haven't met this criterion and there are mitigating circumstances, there will be an opportunity for you to provide us with this information in your application. (These may need to be evidenced by a doctor, where relevant, and an academic reference). This information will be requested of you at the appropriate time.

Application Process

Step 1: Complete an online application form
Step 2: Within 7 days of submitting your application form, we will send you our online testing
Step 3: Online assessment centre where you will be asked to complete a written case study
Step 4: In person interview with HR and an Associate/Senior Associate
Step 5: You will be invited to attend an interview with 2 of our Partners. This will also include a task involving a case study to test your commercial awareness

(Please note that steps 4 and 5 will take place in person in our London office).

Applications are open to final year students and graduates of all degree disciplines, as well as penultimate year law students. Training contracts will commence in September 2026 and March 2027. Assessment centres and interviews will commence in May and June 2024.

Notes:

Once you have submitted your online application you will receive an invitation from us to complete 3 psychometric assessments. You will be given 3 days to complete the assessments, unfortunately we are unable to provide any extension to this timeline unless there are extenuating circumstances. If you do not complete the tests within the timeframe, we will be unable to proceed with your application. Should you require adjustments please do not hesitate to contact us and we will be on hand to assist.

We do not recruit on a rolling basis and will look at all applications after the deadline.

Please note that if you have already made an application for our Winter Vacation Scheme 2023 or Summer Vacation Scheme 2024 and have been unsuccessful, you are not eligible to apply for this vacancy. We would ask that you reapply again in the next recruitment window which will be August 2024 onwards.

Find out more about us :

If you would like to find out more about Ashurst and develop your skills, why not consider undertaking one of our virtual experience programmes before applying to us. You may also wish to visit our Emerging Talent Hub which has many resources available regarding our application process along with lots of insights from our people. You can access the Hub and our Virtual Experience programmes directly from our Early Careers Web pages.

For further information on candidate eligibility, our application and assessment process, key dates a well as general FAQs please visit our website.

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