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Norton Rose Fulbright Graduate Careers

Norton Rose Fulbright offer a training contract and vacation schemes - both outstanding opportunities for those looking to begin a career in law. Opportunities accepting applications will be listed below. 

Training Contract

Norton Rose Fullbright offer up to 50 training contracts each year across two intakes. 

For March 2026 and September 2026 intakes, all finalists and graduates of any subject should apply from the 4 March to 7 April 2024 once they have received their final year grades. 

Norton Rose Fulbright look for intelligent, ambitious, internationally focused and commercially-minded individuals to drive their business. They will expect you to think creatively and find new ways to solve problems. They expect their trainees to deliver work that meets the highest professional, ethical and business standards for their clients. All applicants must have achieved at least AAB in their A levels or equivalent and be on course to achieve (or to have achieved already) a 2.1 degree or above.

Work Placements

Finding the place you want to start your career is a moment you’ll always remember, and that’s exactly the kind of insight Norton Rose Fulbright offers on the firm's vacation schemes. Whether you’re with the firm virtually or in person, a lot is packed into these four schemes. You’ll network with colleagues, attend talks with some of the firm's leading lawyers, join exciting workshops, and even present group projects on legal issues. It’s a lot of new ground to cover, but if you want to understand what it’s really like to work at Norton Rose Fulbright, nothing else comes close.

First-year Opportunities

Everyone remembers the first day they walked through the doors of their future firm. For many of Norton Rose Fulbright's lawyers, that happens on the firm's First Year Open Day, a day designed to give all first year undergraduates of all degree subjects (and second years of a 4 year course) a taste of life at a global law firm. This is a great opportunity to make a first impression, talk to the firm's trainees and partners, and learn about the culture of Norton Rose Fulbright, determining if law is the career for you. 

Vacation Schemes 

Finding the place you want to start your career is a moment you’ll always remember, and that’s exactly the kind of insight Norton Rose Fulbright offer on their vacation schemes. The scheme will involve interactive sessions with senior stakeholders, group and individual assessments, engaging workshops, as well as a Partner Supervisor and trainee buddy to support you throughout the week. There will also be a training contract interview on the last day. The Firm's vacation schemes offer you an unparalleled insight into the life, work and culture of who they are, giving you the chance to see if they are the firm for you. 

Business & Legal Operations Graduate Scheme 

The delivery of legal services is changing. This doesn't just involve the emergence of new technology, it involves the increasingly crucial role played by other technical disciplines in providing more complex and sophisticated client solutions, and optimising Norton Rose Fulbright's performance as a business. 

The firm's Business and Legal Operations Graduate Scheme is a two-year programme encompassing every aspect of the rapid changes currently underway in the delivery of high end legal services. This two-year programme will mirror the firm's traditional training contract for new lawyers, but with a focus on different disciplines, including innovation, commercial management, and legal product design. This is an exciting opportunity for those who want to progress and be at the forefront of driving the firm's business strategy in the years to come.

Apprentice Programmes 

Have you thought about law? Are you worried about the costs of university or put off by how competitive it is to obtain a job once you graduate? Perhaps you are simply keen to get into the world of work and start building a career. If so, Norton Rose Fulbright's Apprenticeship Programme might be for you. 

The firm has two Apprentice Programmes; a Solicitor Apprentice Programme in London, after which you will obtain an LLB degree and become a qualified solicitor, and a Paralegal Apprentice Programme based in the firm's Newcastle office, through which you will achieve a Level 3 Apprenticeship Certificate of Higher Education. 

Norton Rose Fulbright's apprentices will work alongside and learn from some of the brightest minds in their field, helping to solve some of the firm's clients' most complex legal and business problems while learning the academic and practical skills needed to excel as a lawyer. Both programmes start in September 2022, and the firm is looking for lawyers of the future - enterprising, digitally-minded individuals with the intellectual curiosity and aptitude needed to thrive in Norton Rose Fulbright's legal business. 

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