Denton Wilde Sapte

Denton Wilde Sapte LLP is a leading commercial law firm, with a strong network of offices and associate offices in Europe, the Middle East the CIS and Africa. We provide a full range of legal services to clients in the following industry sectors: Energy, Transport & Infrastructure; Financial Institutions; Real Estate & Retail and Technology, Media & Telecoms.

Areas of work

We offer a full range of commercial legal services and have leading experts in each of our nine departments: Banking & Finance; Corporate; Dispute Resolution; Employment & Pensions; Energy, Infrastructure & Project Finance; EU & Competition; Real Estate; Tax; Technology, Media & Telecoms.

Training Programme

As a trainee you will undertake four six-month seats; at least one in the Banking & Finance as well as a contentious seat. Trainees may also undertake a seat in one of our international offices or with one of our clients.
During your seats we provide full departmental training, designed to give you good grounding in skills and resources required. Your supervisor will be a partner or senior solicitor and you'll be expected to take work from a variety of other staff to broaden your experience.

As a trainee, you'll be given as much responsibility as you can handle, and will be working with the law, with the team and with clients in real business situations.

Offices

Abu Dhabi, Almaty, Amman (associate office), Ashgabat (associate office), Cairo, Doha, Dubai, Istanbul, Kuwait (associate office), London, Milton Keynes, Moscow, Muscat, Paris, Riyadh (associate office), St Petersburg (associate firm), Singapore (associate office), Tashkent.

Sponsorship details

We pay full fees for the GDL and/or LPC and offer a maintenance grant of £6,000 per annum (£7,000 per annum for students studying in London).

What we look for

Given the diversity of our business, we look for people with wide-ranging skills, aptitudes and personalities. You will need drive and ambition, with the potential to contribute to the growing success of the firm. You will need the ability to work well in a team and with different people. The particular skills areas that we look at are problem solving and analytical ability. Persuasiveness, organisational skills, team-working skills, achievements of goals and standards and career motivation. We consider any degree discipline (minimum 2:1) and at least 3 'A' levels with A and B grades.

Placements

We run open days and summer schemes. These consist of business games, department visits and social events, giving potential trainees an insight into commercial law and our way of life. We are running an open day in December 2009 for final year non-law students and those who have already completed a non-law degree and an open day in April 2010 for first year law students. Our summer scheme is taking place in July 2010 for law students and is for the duration of one week. Applicants should be in their second or penultimate year of a law degree or have already graduated. Further information is available on our website at www.friendly-firm.com.

Application procedure

Applications should be made via our application form. This is available online through our website www.friendly-firm.com. The recruitment process consists of a first round interview with HR and verbal reasoning exercise. The second round interview is with two partners and involves a case study exercise and presentation. Closing date for applications for training contracts commencing in September 2012 is 31 July 2010.

For further information, please contact Kate Raggett (Recruitment Officer)