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Season Duration Weeks Weekly Remuneration Vac Scheme Closing Date
Addleshaw Goddard
Spring and Summer
1 week [Easter]; 2 weeks [Summer]
£485 [London]; £430 [Regional]
Akin
Spring
2
£600 per week (plus £300 Work-Ready Payment paid two weeks before the scheme begins)
Arnold & Porter
Spring
2
£510
Ashfords
Summer
3
Undisclosed
Ashurst Perkins Coie
Winter and Summer
1 week [Winter]; 3 weeks [Summer]
£650
Baker McKenzie
Spring and Summer
3
£484.75
Bates Wells
Summer
2
London Living Wage
BCLP
Spring
2
£750
Bevan Brittan
Summer
2
Undisclosed
Birketts
Summer
2
£420
Bristows
N/A
N/A
N/A
Burges Salmon
Multiple seasons
2
£375
Charles Russell Speechlys
Spring and Summer
1
£518 [London]; £471 [Cheltenham and Guildford]
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Winter, Spring and Summer
2
£750
Clifford Chance
Undisclosed
Undisclosed
Undisclosed
Collyer Bristow
N/A
N/A
N/A
Cooley
Spring and Summer
2
£550
Covington & Burling
Multiple seasons
2
£600
Davis Polk & Wardwell
N/A
N/A
N/A
Debevoise & Plimpton
Multiple seasons
2
£550
Dechert
Winter and Spring
2
£550
Devonshires
Summer
2
Living Wage
DLA Piper
Summer
3.5
Varied
Dorsey & Whitney
N/A
N/A
N/A
Druces
N/A
N/A
N/A
DWF
Summer
2
Living Wage
Fieldfisher
Spring and Summer
2
£450
Fladgate
Summer
1
£450
Forsters
Spring and Summer
1
£547.60
Fox Williams
Summer
2
£420
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson
N/A
N/A
N/A
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Spring and Summer
2
£750
Goodwin
Spring
2
£650
Greenberg Traurig
N/A
N/A
N/A
Harbottle & Lewis
N/A
N/A
N/A
Haynes and Boone
Summer
3
£500
HFW
Multiple seasons
2
£650
Hill Dickinson
Summer
Undisclosed
Undisclosed
Hogan Lovells Cadwalader
Winter, Spring and Summer
Up to 3 weeks
£500
Howes Percival
Summer
1
Undisclosed
Irwin Mitchell
N/A
N/A
N/A
K&L Gates
Summer
2
Undisclosed
Kingsley Napley
N/A
N/A
N/A
Kirkland & Ellis
Undisclosed
Undisclosed
Undisclosed
Latham & Watkins
Spring and Summer
2
£500
Lewis Silkin
N/A
N/A
N/A
Linklaters
Multiple seasons
2
£520
Macfarlanes
Winter & Spring
2
£525
Marriott Harrison
Summer
1
£450
Mayer Brown
Spring and Summer
2
£650
McDermott Will & Schulte
N/A
N/A
N/A
Michelmores
Summer
1
Real Living Wage
Milbank
Spring
2
£550
Mills & Reeve
Summer
2
Undisclosed
Mishcon de Reya
Spring and Summer
1
£600
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
Summer
2
£500
Morrison Foerster
Summer
2
£600
Northridge Law
Summer
4 days
£440
Norton Rose Fulbright
Spring and Summer
2
£500
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
Summer
2
£500
Osborne Clarke
Summer
2
£490
Paul Hastings
Spring and Summer
1
£500
Penningtons Manches Cooper
Multiple seasons
1
£595 [London]; £545 [Outer London]
Reed Smith
Multiple seasons
1
London Living Wage plus travel grant
Ropes & Gray
Spring and Summer
2
£400
RPC
Summer
2
£550
Russell-Cooke
Spring
1
£600
Sidley Austin
Winter, Spring and Summer
1-2
£500
Simmons & Simmons
Spring and Summer
2
£500 [London]; £450 [Bristol]
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher, & Flom
Multiple seasons
2
£500
Slaughter and May
Summer
Undisclosed
£550
Squire Patton Boggs
Summer
1
£470.75 [Regional]; £518 [London]
Stephenson Harwood
Multiple seasons
2
London Living Wage
Stevens & Bolton
Spring
1
£400
Sullivan & Cromwell
Spring and Summer
2
£1250
Travers Smith
Summer
2
£750
VWV
N/A
N/A
N/A
Walker Morris
Spring and Summer
1
£350
Watson Farley & Williams
Multiple seasons
2
£450
Wedlake Bell
Summer
3
£518
Weil, Gotshal & Manges
Spring
2
£750
White & Case
Undisclosed
2
£600
Wilkin Chapman Rollits
Multiple seasons
1
Undisclosed
Willkie Farr & Gallagher
Multiple seasons
2
£750
Wilsons
Summer
1
Undisclosed
Winckworth Sherwood
N/A
N/A
N/A
Withers
Spring and Summer
1
£700
Womble Bond Dickinson
Summer
1
£470-£520 (location dependent)
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