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Legal
Our client-facing legal practice is an exciting place to launch your legal career. With some 3,700 plus business lawyers across more than 100 countries, we have one of the most extensive legal services networks in the world. Because of the way our business is structured, we’re able to provide our clients with rounded solutions, incorporating multidisciplinary advice from our wider business areas. Working with us is not just about legal advice. It’s about seeing beyond uncertainty and risk to uncover new opportunities. It’s about harnessing the power of PwC’s global reach, local presence and industry depth to chart a future-ready path to success. It’s a unique training environment.
Legal Summer Vacation Scheme
You’ll rotate across two different practice groups, carry out research, draft legal documents and attend client meetings.
Programme
Our summer internships offer students invaluable insight into PwC’s business and culture. You’ll have the opportunity to experience work and life at PwC, and collaborate with both graduate trainees and experienced professionals on real client projects. The opportunities to learn and grow are unrivalled – so be prepared to get stuck in.
What you’ll do
To get a training contract with us, you’ll need to complete our Legal Summer Vacation Scheme. The two-week schemes for students run in the summer and will help you decide whether a career with us is right for you.
Do well and you’ll be offered a training contract with us – the start date will be flexible where possible.
Starting out in your chosen career will be exciting, stretching and challenging. But the rewards are well worth it. If you’re ready to invest plenty of effort, commitment, flexibility and passion, we’re ready to give you our full support and invest in your future.
If you’re working towards a professional qualification you’ll have time off to study, and once you’ve finished the training contract, we’ll carry on helping you develop your career with us. All routes offer you the opportunity to grow as an individual, to meet new people, and build lasting relationships that will stay with you for life. In return we need people who are resilient, willing to work hard, quick to learn, and who, above all, are passionate about going the extra mile to help our clients.
What you’ll gain
Our two-week paid Summer Vacation Scheme is a great way to find out how we work and see for yourself the ways in which we’re truly unique in the legal marketplace, gaining valuable legal work experience during your time with us. You’ll get a highly-competitive wage while you’re here. You’ll have the opportunity to join client meetings and calls, conduct research, practise legal drafting, join our seminar and training programme and work directly alongside our lawyers.
The scheme is our principal route towards securing a training contract with us.
What you’ll need
We generally recruit two years in advance for trainee solicitors however we’re flexible and allow applications from penultimate year (and onwards) law students and final year (and onwards) non-law students.
You need to demonstrate a keen interest in business law.
You’ll need to have, or be on course for a 2.1 degree or above. We determine whether you’re on course for a 2.1 based on the grades you achieved in your last completed year of academic study.
Work permit
If you are successful in completing our Summer Vacation Scheme you may be offered a legal training contract with PwC. Please review the below regarding work permit sponsorship for our two-year training contract.
To be eligible to switch from being a Tier 4 general student to being a Tier 2 general migrant within the UK, you currently must have been sponsored by a licensed tier 4 sponsor to get one of the following qualifications: a UK bachelor’s degree; a UK master’s degree; a postgraduate certificate in education or a professional graduate diploma of education. If your current course does not fall under any of these qualifications,you may be able to rely on a previous degree that does, but you will need to evidence that you have had continuous leave in the UK since then. Any break in your UK leave in between courses may mean you do not meet this requirement. This would need to be assessed on a case by case basis. Please ensure you send us copies of your current and previous UK visa(s) (including BRPs).
When to apply
The deadline for applications is 4 January 2023
The deadline for the online game is 5 January 2023
The deadline for the recorded video interview is 29 January 2023
We’ll let you know the outcome of your application on 8 February 2023
Assessment centres will take place in the week commencing 13 February 2023
