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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
Undisclosed
Undisclosed
Undisclosed
Ashfords
Summer
1 week (Bristol); 2 weeks (Exeter)
Undisclosed
Ashurst Perkins Coie
Winter and Summer
1 week [Winter]; 3 weeks [Summer]
£650
Baker McKenzie
Spring and Summer
3
£484.75
Bates Wells
Spring
2
London living wage
BCLP
Spring and Summer
2
£750
Bevan Brittan
Summer
2
Undisclosed
Birketts
Summer
2
£315
Bristows
N/A
N/A
N/A
Burges Salmon
Winter, Spring and Summer
2
£375
Charles Russell Speechlys
Spring and Summer
1
£461 [London]; £420 [Cheltenham and Guildford]
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Winter, Spring and Summer
2
£750
Clifford Chance
Undisclosed
Undisclosed
Undisclosed
Clyde & Co
Spring and Summer
2
Undisclosed
CMS
Spring
1
£450
Collyer Bristow
N/A
N/A
N/A
Cooley
Spring and Summer
2
£550
Covington & Burling
Winter and Summer
2
£600
Cripps
Undisclosed
Undisclosed
Undisclosed
Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle
Undisclosed
Undisclosed
Undisclosed
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Multiple seasons
1
£750
Debevoise & Plimpton
Spring and Summer
1 (Spring); 2 (Summer)
£550
Dechert
Winter, Spring and Summer
2
£550
Dentons
Spring and Summer
2
£450
Devonshires
Summer
2
£535.13 (London); £485.63 (Non-London)
DLA Piper
Summer
Undisclosed
Undisclosed
Dorsey & Whitney
N/A
N/A
N/A
Druces
N/A
N/A
N/A
DWF
Undisclosed
Undisclosed
Undisclosed
Farrer & Co
Spring and Summer
2
£490.38
Fladgate
Summer
1
£400
Forsters
Spring and Summer
1
£475
Fox Williams
Summer
2
£400
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson
N/A
N/A
N/A
Gateley
Summer
1
£350
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Spring and Summer
2
£750
Goodwin
Spring and Summer
1 (Spring); 2 (Summer)
£650
Greenberg Traurig
N/A
N/A
N/A
Harbottle & Lewis
N/A
N/A
N/A
Haynes and Boone
N/A
N/A
N/A
HFW
Spring and Summer
2
£600
Hill Dickinson
Summer
Undisclosed
Undisclosed
Hogan Lovells Cadwalader
Undisclosed
Undisclosed
Undisclosed
Howes Percival
Winter and Summer
1
Undisclosed
Irwin Mitchell
N/A
N/A
N/A
K&L Gates
Summer
2
Undisclosed
Kennedys
N/A
N/A
N/A
Kingsley Napley
N/A
N/A
N/A
Kirkland & Ellis
Multiple seasons
Undisclosed
Undisclosed
Latham & Watkins
Spring and Summer
2
£500
Lewis Silkin
N/A
N/A
N/A
Linklaters
Winter and Summer
2 [Winter]; 3 [Summer]
£500
Macfarlanes
Spring and Summer
2
£500
Marriott Harrison
Summer
4
£450
Mayer Brown
Spring and Summer
2
£550
McDermott Will & Schulte
N/A
N/A
N/A
Michelmores
Summer
1
Real Living Wage
Mills & Reeve
Summer
2
£480 [London]; £420 [Regional]
Mishcon de Reya
Winter and Summer
1
£650
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
Summer
2
£500
Morrison Foerster
Summer
2
£600
Northridge Law
Summer
3/4 days
£270 for 3 days
Norton Rose Fulbright
Winter and Summer
2
£500
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
Summer
2
£500
Osborne Clarke
Summer
2
£490
Paul Hastings
Multiple seasons
1
£500
Penningtons Manches Cooper
Winter and Summer
1
£460 [London]; £420 [Outer London]
Reed Smith
Spring and Summer
1
£460
Ropes & Gray
Spring and Summer
2
£400
RPC
Summer
2
£500
Russell-Cooke
Spring
1
£600
RWK Goodman
Undisclosed
Undisclosed
Undisclosed
Sidley Austin
Winter, Spring and Summer
1-2
£500
Simmons & Simmons
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
£441 [Regional]; £485 [London]
Stephenson Harwood
Undisclosed
Undisclosed
Undisclosed
Stevens & Bolton
Spring
1
£250
Sullivan & Cromwell
Spring and Summer
2
Undisclosed
Travers Smith
Summer
2
£750
Trowers & Hamlins
Summer
2
£430 [Regional]; £485 [London]
Vinson & Elkins
Summer
1
£750
VWV
Summer
1
Undisclosed
Ward Hadaway
Spring
1
Undisclosed
Watson Farley & Williams
Multiple seasons
2
£450
Wedlake Bell
Summer
3
£460
Weil, Gotshal & Manges
Spring
2
£750
White & Case
Winter, Spring and Summer
Undisclosed
£600
Wilkin Chapman Rollits
Multiple seasons
1
Undisclosed
Willkie Farr & Gallagher
Spring and Summer
2
£750
Wilsons
Summer
1
Undisclosed
Winckworth Sherwood
N/A
N/A
N/A
Winston Taylor
Undisclosed
Undisclosed
Undisclosed
Withers
Multiple seasons
1
£500
Womble Bond Dickinson
Summer
1
£470-£520 (location dependent)
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