Our training contracts offer the perfect route into law. Over a two-year period, we’ll give you the knowledge, tools and opportunities to make a truly successful and rewarding legal career.
Our legal training contracts give you the opportunity to experience four six-month seats over two years. At least one seat must be in a contentious area. You may also have the chance to apply for a secondment at a client office or at another Eversheds Sutherland office in the UK or internationally.
You won't simply be given a conventional development path: you’ll work closely with your supervisor to identify and build on your strengths - and we'll talk to you about how you see your future evolving. We recommend trying as many seats as possible but if there's one you really want to experience, we'll do our best to accommodate you.
Once you qualify, you’ll be able to apply for any of the vacancies on offer. As you might expect, our aim is to retain every trainee on qualification.
For those who are interested in part-time training, this is an option within the firm. Please discuss any requests for part-time working with the Emerging Talent team at any point during the recruitment process or at offer stage.
We are not currently open to applications for our Legal Technology Graduate Scheme
Vacation scheme for graduates
Our Vacation Scheme gives you the opportunity to earn money whilst getting valuable hands-on experience in one of our offices. Each vacation placement will encourage you to really get under the skin of life at Eversheds Sutherland, providing a range of opportunities that typically include:
- attending court
- assisting with research
- drafting documents
- spending time in two different fee-earning departments
- meeting partners, solicitors and trainees at social events
- taking part in one of our corporate responsibility events
- attending a range of informal talks to discover more about Eversheds Sutherland
We welcome applications from penultimate year law under-graduates, final year non-law graduates as well as candidates who've already graduated or taken different career paths.
Selected candidates will be shortlisted to video interview. If you pass that interview you will be invited to a selection day and if you are successful and do well on the Vacation Scheme, you may be offered a training contract.
Legal Technology graduate recruitment scheme
It is an incredibly exciting time to kick start your career in the legal technology industry. Over the past decade, the demand for innovative, tech enabled legal services has developed into a broad field, offering a range of opportunities and an exciting alternative career path in law for those who do not wish to qualify as lawyers.
We have created this new grad scheme to provide an opportunity for high performing graduates who are interested in developing a career in legal technology, to join the fast-paced Service Excellence team at one of the world’s leading law firms.
We are not currently open to applications for our Legal Technology Graduate Scheme.
The Scheme will last for two years, during which you will be called a “Legal Technology Analyst”.
During the Scheme, you will spend the first six months embedded within the Technology Products Team, where you will develop a strong foundation in our firmwide legal and client-facing technologies, product ways of working, delivery principles and problem-solving approaches.
You will then spend the remaining 18 months within the Practice Group Legal Technology teams, gaining hands-on experience in how technology is applied directly within our legal practice groups to solve real client and lawyer challenges.
This dual approach ensures that you get a varied, rich experience and develop a good breadth of knowledge over the duration of the Scheme.
Developing your career with our Legal Technology Graduate Recruitment Scheme
The Legal Technology Graduate Scheme is an important part of how we continue to build capability for the future. It gives graduates the opportunity to develop a broad understanding of legal technology, service excellence, data, automation, AI and change, while gaining hands-on experience through real work with our teams across the firm. The scheme is designed to support curiosity, confidence and professional growth, helping graduates build the skills needed for a fast-moving and rewarding career in legal technology.
It is an exciting time to begin a career in legal technology. The pace of change across the legal sector creates huge opportunity for people who are curious, collaborative and motivated to make a difference. At Eversheds Sutherland, we want our graduates to be part of shaping what comes next for our clients, our people and our firm.