Herbert Smith Training Contract Application Process

Applying to Herbert Smith

Law students should apply to the firm in the summer before they enter their final year and non-law students should apply in their final year. For a graduate recruitment brochure and application form, please contact the Graduate Recruitment Team.

Selection Criteria

Applications are welcome from penultimate-year law students and final-year non-law students, or anyone wishing to commence a training contract in two years’ time. The firm recruits from a wide range of universities, with some 50% of the annual intake studying non-law subjects.

The firms' key criteria for new hires are: common sense, self-confidence and the intelligence to make there own way in a large firm. Applicants should be high achieving and intelligent, numerate and literate, with good interpersonal skills.

Sponsourship details

£5,000 p.a. for GDL maintenace grant outside London
£6,000 p.a. for GDL maintenance grant in London
£7,000 p.a. for LPC maintenance grant.
Payment of all course fees.