Summer Vacation Scheme

The Summer Vacation Scheme

Our three-week summer vacation scheme is an exciting way to find out more about life at Freshfields! You’ll do real work, participate in group exercises, meet associates and partners, and catch up with your peers at social events organised by trainees. It’s your opportunity to really immerse yourself in the work and culture that Freshfields has to offer.

We’ll be holding interviews at the beginning of 2025 for individuals applying for a place on our summer 2025 placement.

• Scheme One runs from 16 June to 4 July 2025
• Scheme Two runs from 14 July to 1 August 2025

Eligibility

You’re eligible to apply for the Summer Vacation Scheme if you are a penultimate-year undergraduate student studying any degree discipline. This means you can apply if you are either:

• A second-year undergraduate student on a three-year course in any degree discipline
• A second-year or third-year undergraduate student on a four-year course in any degree discipline

You’ll also need the right to work in the United Kingdom as our vacation scheme is a paid placement. If you have a visa to study in the UK, you’ll need to ensure that our vacation scheme falls outside of your term time.

Inclusion

Freshfields is an equal opportunities employer and all applications received by the firm will be considered by the firm on the basis of their merit alone and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals regardless of background. All offers of employment will be conditional on the candidate having/securing the right to work in the UK and providing the firm with evidence of that right (as required by the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006) prior to employment commencing.

Freshfields is a Ban the Box employer. We ask applicants to disclose criminal convictions only when a conditional job offer is made. A conviction does not automatically lead to withdrawal of the offer: we make decisions on a case by case basis and take a number of factors into account (eg the role you are applying for and the circumstances of the offence). You would have the opportunity to discuss the matter with us before we make a decision.

Application Deadline

23:59 on Thursday 9 January 2025.