Careers with Travers Smith

Travers Smith recruit for both training contracts and vacation schemes. If the firm is accepting applications for any position, these will be listed below.

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Training Programme/Environment

The firm’s comprehensive training programme ensures that trainees experience a broad range of work. All trainees sit with partners and associates, which ensures a refreshing lack of hierarchy and unparalleled opportunities to learn by osmosis from some of the most senior people at the firm. It also means that trainees receive individual and extensive training from experienced lawyers and can look forward to client contact, and the responsibility that goes with it, from day one.

During the two-year training contract, you will rotate through four different legal departments. Trainees spend six months in a corporate department, with the rest of their training contract spread across the other departments. A large proportion of their trainees also spend one of these rotations in their Dispute Resolution or Employment teams. For the other two rotations trainees are asked to indicate a department of interest, which includes the opportunity to spend six months in the firm’s Paris office.

Travers Smith is a collaborative firm – they treat each other with respect and encourage their people to be themselves. The Firm are very proud of the close-knit, supportive and non-hierarchical culture this creates.

Work Placements

Travers Smith's Vacation Schemes take place at three points in the year. One 1-week scheme in the Winter and two 2-week schemes in the Summer.

Vacation Scheme students will be paid £750 for completing each week.

The scheme will follow their internal programme, which includes a number of talks, workshops, and a negotiating exercise. There will also be department insights and close contact with trainees. The week is designed specifically for students to be given an authentic taste of a City lawyer's work. There are also working lunches and informal evening events.

The exact dates of each scheme are: 11 December – 15 December 2023, 24 June – 5 July 2024, and 8 July – 19 July 2024.

Applications will be opened on the below dates:

Winter Vacation Scheme: 4 September 2023 and will close on 22 October 2023.

Summer Vacation Scheme: 22 October 2023 and will close on 14 January 2024.

Interviews will only be allocated once all applications have been processed.

Please note Travers Smith's interview process will be held virtually and run by a senior member of the Graduate Recruitment Panel. For more information on the panel please visit the recruitment team webpage.