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Why Start Your Legal Career With Akin?

Why Start Your Legal Career with Akin?

Hear from our trainees, associates and partners below.

A Culture of Collaboration

We have an open, supportive and collaborative culture. You can expect a fast-paced environment—backed by a complete commitment to teamwork.

Graduate Recruitment

View our London Graduate recruitment brochure for more about training with us, our summer vacation scheme and how to apply.

Top-notch Training

Learning is immersive and hands-on for our trainees, who work side-by-side with our senior lawyers on high-profile transactions and disputes. You’ll be integral to our team from the start and will swiftly gain responsibility.

 Our key practice areas include:

  • Corporate and Finance
  • Disputes and Investigations
  • Energy and Infrastructure
  • Financial Restructuring
  • Financial Services Regulatory
  • International Trade
  • Investment Management and Private Equity
  • Tax
 

During your time with us, you’ll be supervised by a senior lawyer qualified in England and Wales, with the opportunity to work with lawyers in multiple jurisdictions. To provide a breadth of experience, seats are regularly discussed with the Trainee Development team throughout the two-year training programme. In addition, we offer opportunities for a tailored international or client secondment.

Summer Vacation Scheme

Our two-week summer vacation scheme is the perfect way to experience what life is really like as an Akin trainee. We have carefully designed a comprehensive programme of interactive training sessions, workshops, networking opportunities and exciting social activities to help you get to know your fellow schemers and meet others at our office summer party!

When you’re not attending timetabled skills sessions, you will split your time between two practice groups and work alongside our partners, associates and current trainees. Whether it be drafting documents, researching points of law, or attending client meetings, you’ll be supported and guided each step of the way by your dedicated scheme supervisor.

At the end of the scheme, you will be offered the chance to interview for our two-year training programme.

Pro Bono

We encourage our trainees to get involved in a wide variety of pro-bono matters. We also have a unique opportunity for first-year trainees to apply for a London Pro Bono Scholar position, with successful applicants attending a summer Boot Camp in the US for a week of training, networking and social justice programming.

The Pro Bono Scholars work with the London office Pro Bono Committee to help deepen relationships with not-for-profit organisations. We support engagement before you join the firm so as an incoming future trainee, there may be opportunities to work with our pro bono practice before your official start date. Learn More

Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)

Our firm is at the forefront of helping companies and investors advance their social commitment to their stakeholders and the environment. We are a signatory of the Sustainable Recruitment Alliance and we have a globally integrated team helping clients develop a forward-thinking ESG strategy.

How we are meeting our pledge to the Sustainable Recruitment Alliance:

  • Digital offer paperwork for all London office hires
  • No paper recruitment brochures. We provide a QR code for digital download
  • No merchandise at external events and law fairs
  • Reusable signage at events and law fairs.
  • For a full list of how we are meeting our pledge to the alliance, please click here

Our Commitment to Environmental Sustainability

As we only recruit a small intake – about eight trainees a year, we want people who are keen to take on early responsibility because they’re going to be an integral part of the team from day one. Successful applicants are motivated to hit the ground running, ask considered questions, are proactive and enjoy learning from practice area experts. Being a solicitor is a learning curve all the way up to partner level – our trainees need to be able to think commercially, understand the bigger picture and find solutions to client problems.
Amy McCarthy
Graduate Recruitment Manager
As we only recruit a small intake – about eight trainees a year, we want people who are keen to take on early responsibility because they’re going to be an integral part of the team from day one. Successful applicants are motivated to hit the ground running, ask considered questions, are proactive and enjoy learning from practice area experts. Being a solicitor is a learning curve all the way up to partner level – our trainees need to be able to think commercially, understand the bigger picture and find solutions to client problems.
Amy McCarthy
Graduate Recruitment Manager
“We offer exceptional career opportunities through our training programme. We work with sophisticated clients on high-profile and often precedent-setting cases in which you would play an active role. The work is fast-paced, interesting and often fun.”
Vance Chapman, Graduate Recruitment Partner
“We offer exceptional career opportunities through our training programme. We work with sophisticated clients on high-profile and often precedent-setting cases in which you would play an active role. The work is fast-paced, interesting and often fun.”
Vance Chapman, Graduate Recruitment Partner

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