Hi everyone,
I’m delighted to share that Perkins Coie has just announced its new LBA programme.
The programme is open to graduates, with applications closing on 2 January 2026. You can apply here.
To mark the launch, we’ll be featuring Perkins Coie in the forum this month. Use this thread to find out more about the firm and what sets Perkins Coie apart.
What Makes Perkins Coie Different from Other Law Firms?
For more than a century, Perkins Coie have ‘been along for the journey’ and has grown alongside the world’s most ambitious technology companies, moving with founders from garage to IPO and embedding itself into the heart of the US innovation economy. This culture is rooted in the firm’s Pacific Northwest heritage, home to some of the most innovative companies in the world. While other firms retrofit “innovation” into legacy City or Wall Street structures, Perkins Coie was born inside the technology ecosystem and optimised around it.
This global identity forms the narrative that the London office scales into Europe: a firm defined by Counsel to Tomorrow, built on a culture where hierarchy is thin, information flows quickly, and teams prioritise technical depth, commercial clarity, and operator-level thinking. Internally, Perkins Coie invests heavily in legal operations, AI-enabled workflows, and data-driven coordination across practices. The firm also lives by its values, embedding them into training, leadership, and day-to-day decision-making. The result is consistent Cx: client experience designed for companies who expect counsel to move as fast, or even faster, than they do.
The London office mirrors the firm’s US strengths: deep exposure to high-growth tech, private capital, and institutional technology mandates. The office advises clients who scale aggressively, face complex regulatory change, and require counsel who reduce friction, not add to it. Its teams operate across borders without the inefficiency of mega-firm politics, giving clients fast, integrated, conflict-light solutions.
London takes that global DNA and sharpens it. From day one, London adopted a startup culture: a flat hierarchy, agile roles, and a refusal to replicate the slow, layered structures that dominate Big Law. Every person operates with ownership. Partners collaborate without silos. Associates are trained to become ‘partners in disguise’ early. And uniquely, London built the Legal Business Analyst Programme, which has now become the core expression of London’s differentiation and the most authentic embodiment of its Tx: talent experience.
The LBA Programme offers holistic training across business professional and legal professional seats and looks to shorten the traditional trainee pathway by blending full-time work and continuous learning, allowing second year LBAs to study for the SQE and avoid the need to take out additional debt during their study period.
LBAs are commercially aware, tech-enabled, and embedded in the business from day one. Training goes beyond legal skills: LBAs receive structured development across EQ, SQ, and IQ, producing lawyers who can operate with emotional intelligence, strategic capability, and analytical depth.
LBAs rotate across legal, finance, BD, marketing, regulatory, and operations, giving them a birds-eye view of how a high-growth office actually runs. The programme has a strong social-mobility focus, supported by initiatives such as the Welcome to London grant and the partnership with Zero Gravity. They work and earn while studying, avoiding the debt and disconnect of the legacy trainee model. By qualification, they have already spent years delivering value directly to partners and clients. These future associates are what the office describes as triple-threats; well-networked, fast-moving and fluent in the business of law. Perkins Coie London is like the firm’s innovation lab, with innovative winning outcomes are backed by a simple formula ‘Tx + Cx = a winning culture that sustains profitability’, a place that nurtures the Counsel to Tomorrow.
If you’d like to see more posts about Perkins Coie like this, be sure to check this thread throughout the week!
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