Belfast Summer Vacation Scheme - 2025

Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

12/3/2024

A&O Shearman is a new global industry-leading law firm, with 48 offices in 29 countries worldwide. Our fluency in English law, US law, and the laws of the world's most dynamic markets, enables us to provide unmatched insight and seamless delivery to clients. We work on challenging and important deals and disputes that have the potential to shape the future. We offer exceptional opportunities for our people; opportunities to work for the world's leading businesses; to transform the status quo, and to deliver your best work, helping you and your career to thrive, while delivering unparalleled outcomes for our clients. Whether you're helping clients solve complex challenges, transforming the ways we manage our business, or ensuring the smooth-running of our operations, this is an environment where you can belong and excel. We provide first-rate training and development, we are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and we provide support and ways of working that help you optimise your wellbeing. What truly defines a career with us? We recruit the best and ask for the best of you. And together, we will redefine success.

Advanced Delivery Legal - Belfast

The Belfast office is a key part of A&O Shearman's Global Advanced Delivery & Solutions teams. As the legal industry's innovator, A&O Shearman is constantly seeking new and better ways of meeting the needs of our clients and you, our people. By harnessing digital technology and alternative resourcing models, our Advanced Delivery Legal team enhance cost efficiency, quality, speed, transparency and data-driven decision-making for clients and other A&O Shearman offices across the globe. We have created a truly collaborative culture where talented individuals work together and can flourish and achieve great things.

Role purpose

Our Belfast Summer Vacation Scheme is designed to show you exactly what it's like to tackle exciting challenges every day in A&O Shearman's friendly, supportive and dynamic culture. You will gain insight into our range of practice areas including; Corporate, Litigation, Banking & Finance, ICM and Real Estate. Working alongside Associates and Legal Professionals on live deals and cases, you'll gain valuable skills to help you in your future career. You'll also attend a diverse range of events and presentations that will show you what it takes to excel as a successful Legal Professional.

What you will do

• Document review
• Due diligence exercises
• Company searches
• Legal research
• Learning about Legal Technology tools and platforms

Who we are looking for

• Applications are open to Law students currently in their first or second year of their undergraduate degree.
• Strong academic background and on track to achieve a 2:1 undergraduate Law degree (we do take into account mitigating circumstances which may have affected your grades either at school or university).
• High levels of commercial awareness.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to review and analyse documents.
• Team player with good communication skills.
• Good time management and organisational skills.
  

Application Process

The application process for our Summer Vacation Scheme will involve three stages:

• Online application & Situational Judgement Test.
• Document review exercise.
• Competency-based and scenario-based interview with Senior Associates.