At Allen & Overy, you don’t have to blend in to belong and you don’t need to wear yourself down to excel. Join our summer clerkship program and we will support you to learn as much as possible about who we are, give you access to the people and leaders you’ll work alongside and develop the skills you need to excel with us.
The A&O difference
Global reach, local depth - We are one of the largest and most connected law firms in the world. Every day we combine our collective global resources to help our clients gain competitive advantage in the local markets they operate in.
Lasting relationships, market leadership - We combine leading legal insights with deep business know-how to build long-term relationships with our clients. Many of the world’s leading businesses rely on us to solve their most complex legal challenges.
High-performance culture - Our clients expect the highest standards of service, and we have similarly high expectations of our people. We have created an environment where the brightest and most talented legal minds can flourish.
What we can offer you
Our summer clerkship program is a great way to experience firsthand our work and culture. During the program, you will gain real experience working alongside our lawyers on real deals and cases as well as specifically designed exercises that provide a valuable insight into the role of an Allen & Overy lawyer. Bespoke training will be provided by some of our leading lawyers in Australia and across our global network.
In addition to completing rotations in two of our practice areas in the Sydney office, our previous summer clerks have been able to spend time in one of our Asia Pacific offices during the program. This experience will give you a greater understanding of our global network and a taste of future opportunities at Allen & Overy.
As your career progresses with Allen & Overy, you will be given a range of choices to develop your experiences, such as taking up the opportunity to spend time working in another office, whether that’s a rotation as a junior lawyer, a longer term secondment or a permanent transfer.
Top tier Australian and international work
At Allen & Overy, we advise on our clients most strategically important business decisions. With a track record of advising on complex, Australian and cross-border matters for market leading organisations, we are able to offer our clients the best of both worlds: the expertise and resources of a global elite law practice coupled with seasoned practitioners with Australian and international experience.
We focus on innovative and expert legal solutions across a broad range of areas: mergers and acquisitions; private equity; capital markets; regulatory and funds; anti-trust/competition; litigation and dispute resolution; banking and finance; infrastructure and projects; energy and resources; communications, outsourcing and technology and tax.
What we are looking for
There is no typical Allen & Overy lawyer. We realise each person has their unique skills and qualities. Our shared culture and the values inspire the way we work and behave: instinctively thoughtful, collectively ambitious, insightfully inventive and refreshingly open.
In addition to excellent academic results, we seek law students in their penultimate year who are team players, have a global mindset, are good communicators, have strength in planning and organisation, are adept at problem solving and have general commercial awareness with an overall ambition to build a career at Allen & Overy.
To find out more, visit the Allen & Overy website.