Freshfields Legal Consultants & Legal Assistants Graduate careers
Freshfields Legal Consultants & Legal Assistants Graduate careers
We offer one to three year contracts to our legal consultants / legal assistants
If you have a law degree from a Chinese University, you can apply to train with us in our Beijing, Shanghai or Hong Kong offices. In China, these trainees are known as Legal Consultants and in Hong Kong they are called Legal Assistants. We offer one to three year contracts to our legal consultants / legal assistants, subject to the office you apply to. Regular tasks include due diligence, legal research and legal memo and agreement drafting. Working with us, you can expect to attend meetings with associates and partners, deal directly with clients and other professionals, and be involved in managing and executing transactions from start to finish.
We help our legal consultants with their career development by offering comprehensive on-the-job training as well as a variety of training programs for development of legal skills, management skills and other professional skills.
We encourage our legal consultants / legal assistants to qualify in common law jurisdictions.
China
Each year, we select top performing legal consultants in Beijing / Shanghai and sponsor them for a one-year LL.M. study in US law schools and a US state bar exam.
Hong Kong
For the Legal Assistants joining our Hong Kong office, we sponsor top performers to study for the PGDL and CCP and offer you a place in our London-Asia Trainee Associate programme.
You’ll need to be fluent in spoken and written English
English is used as the universal language throughout our network of offices and in communications with our clients, so you’ll need a high level of English proficiency.
Your training depends on your ambition
We provide regular legal training and updates to new legal consultants. This introduces you to the firm and equips you with the basic skills and knowledge to start your legal career with us.
You then have comprehensive on-the-job training as you work on transactions and hone your skills under the supervision of our partners and associates.
You will also expect to receive various personal and management skill training for the benefit to develop your overall skills as a professional in a business environment.
While supported, you are encouraged expanding and deepening your learning driven by your own career ambition.
We also have a strong mentoring programme for all legal consultants
We allocate an associate or a partner to each legal consultant. We encourage you to raise any concerns with mentors, whether they’re about working practices, dealing with clients or workload.
Read about the work you’ll do.