We invest a huge amount of time in ensuring our graduates experience a first rate introduction to the law, and are shown an exciting path forward with the firm following qualification.
It’s a full and exciting year of learning, and a great opportunity to form strong working relationships and friendships with a diverse range of people across the firm.
What's involved?
Building on your experience... our graduate program is built on four practice group rotations (we’ll ask you to indicate your preferences), each of three months duration, and covering commercial and litigious areas of practice.
The objective of the rotations is to foster the development of broad skills in the law, and to set the solid base of experiences you’ll need to gauge your preferred area of practice following qualification.
You'll still be well looked after... in each rotation you’re teamed with an experienced lawyer who makes it their job to ensure you experience:
- the best variety and volume of challenging work
- involvement with clients to speed your learning process
- coaching on skill development
- regular feedback on performance and progress
- advice on managing your transition into the legal profession.
Your practical experiences will be an extension of the research and writing activities tackled at the seasonal clerkship level, and will gradually increase in complexity to reflect the advancement of your skills and confidence with each rotation.
At the end of each rotation, you’ll debrief with your supervisor to discuss your experiences and progress, and to set objectives for the next rotation. On completion of the last rotation, we’ll ask you to indicate your preferred area of practice for placement in one of the firm’s seven practice groups as a qualified lawyer.
Learning & Development... in addition to the practical, on the job learning in rotations, graduates also complete a part time Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice with the College of Law.
As part of this, you'll receive training in substantive areas of law, such as property and litigation, and practical skills training in areas like client interviewing and negotiation.
Our graduates also participate our Graduate Learning & Development Program, including sessions on drafting agreements, presentation skills and networking.
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What does it take?
We recruit around 15 graduates each year: 10 in Melbourne and 5 in Sydney.
We aim to recruit and retain law students who have a friendly and down to earth style of engaging with others. We see this as important to your success in working with your clients and colleagues, and critical to the preservation of our happy workplace.
You’ll also need intelligence to tackle the most interesting of legal scenarios, energy to absorb new concepts and changing laws, and a willingness to work productively with lots of different people.
We don’t expect that you’ll be a gun at all of these things straight away, but when we meet you at interview we’ll be curious to learn more about your potential to handle these things in the future, based on the skills and experience you’ve already built through studying law (combined with other disciplines like arts, commerce and science) and any legal and non legal part time work, volunteer work and university activities you’ve tackled.
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How to apply
Melbourne
Recruitment for graduate positions in Melbourne for 2012 is now complete and all available opportunities have been filled.
Applications for our 2013 graduate positions will open on 16 July 2012 and close on 22 July 2012. However, our aim is to recruit all of our graduates under the LIV priority offer system and, therefore, our graduate positions are filled via our seasonal clerk program. Should additional opportunities become available for graduates who have not completed a seasonal clerkship with us, we will add further information on this page at a later date.
Sydney
Recruitment for graduate positions in Sydney for 2012 and 2013 is now complete and all available opportunities have been filled.
Our aim is to recruit all of our graduates under the Law Society of NSW guidelines and therefore our graduate positions are filled via our summer clerk program. However, should additional opportunities become available we will add further information on this page at a later date.
More information
Natalie Colton | Recruitment Consultant
ncolton@landers.com.au
+61 3 9269 9333
Applications via cvMail.com.au.
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