Summer Internships

CantGetNoSleep

Anyone got any links to good undergraduate student internships for any period of time this summer?

Will consider any type of work whatsoever which may benefit a legal career, don't think this is a time to be picky

Also very willing to travel abroad (Europe - speak French) for similar positions

Just doing research now, any help or sharing of experiences would be appreciated

Hogzy

CantGetNoSleep

If anyone happens to PM you the links any chance you could pass on the infor to me... Im in the same boat as you bar the french speaking but id be willing to go to the UK!

CantGetNoSleep

Will do, people can just post links in the thread if they prefer, would be of more use to others

dK1NG

Do a search of the forum; iirc I posted up a few links re internships here a few months back.

Best of luck with it!

skyhighflyer

There are literally hundreds of UK firms who take on summer students on vacation placement. The deadlines for most of the bigger firms are up at the end of this month and the selection process can be quite drawn out, so get cracking now if this interests you.

http://www.lawcareers.net/Solicitors/VacationSchemeDeadlines.aspx

Pour ceux qui parlent Français (or have any other second language), there are always plenty of interesting internships going here, mainly in EU-related areas:

http://www.eurobrussels.com/internships.php

I've also known people to get summer work experience in Public Defender offices and clerking for judges in the US, the Irish Department of Justice, work with MEPs in Europe or volunteer for legal work with NGOs.

Duffman

The summer programmes in the large London firms are worth doing if you are considering becoming a solicitor. Apply now though, you are more likely to get a training contract with a firm than a place on its summer programme.

CantGetNoSleep

Just doing applications now so if anyone has any personal recommendations i'd like to hear them

CavanGal

Where does one get the applications fro the summer internships? Is there a general website or do you have to contact each firm individually?
Thanks

johnfás

You will get it through each firms website. Only the big firms do structured summer internship programmes.

Start by Googling the following:

Matheson Ormsby Prentice
William Fry
McCann FitzGerald
Arthur Cox
A & L Goodbody

I know Mason Hayes + Curran also do one but I believe their application deadline has already passed.

You could also contact more medium sized firms and ask if you can do some work experience with them for free over the summer. I didn't get onto any of the summer internship programmes either last summer or the year before but I got in touch with lots of smaller firms and as a result did two unpaid stints during the last two summers. I have now secured a traineeship in one of the big firms, mainly as a result of my experience in the smaller firms. You can get lists of all the firms on the lawsociety website but if you just google things like Dublin Solicitors you are probably more likely to find the bigger medium firms quicker than going through the law society website.