Vacation scheme deadlines - 2021

Jessica Booker

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The forum team thought it would be useful for us to provide a list of upcoming application deadlines for vacation scheme. So here it is...

Let me know if there are an errors or changed dates, as this is going by what firms have previously published/marketed. Firms may decide to change their deadlines and so it is always worth double checking yourself. If a firm is listed twice below, it may be where they have different deadlines for different schemes.

January 2021

1st:

  • Baker McKenzie
  • Lewis Silkin
3rd:
  • Clyde and Co
  • Debevoise & Plimpton
  • Dentons
  • Eversheds SUtherland
  • Hogan Lovells
  • Kirkland & Ellis
  • Latham & Watkins
  • Milbank
  • Weil Gotshal & Manges
4th:
  • CMS
  • Irwin Mitchell
  • Mills & Reeve
  • Morrison & Foerster (UK)
5th:
  • Addleshaw Goddard
  • Clyde & Co
7th:
  • Burges Salmon
  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
8th:
  • Ashurst
  • Jones Day
  • Squire Patton Boggs
  • Watson Farley & Williams
9th:
  • Davis Polk & Wardwell London
10th:
  • BLM
  • TLT
11th:
  • Davis Pole & Wardwell London
  • Taylor Wessing
15th:
  • Covington & Burling
  • Goodwin Procter
  • Katten Muchin Rosenman
  • Osborne Clarke
  • Simmons & Simmons
  • Sullivan & Cromwell
  • Vinson & Elkins
  • White & Case
  • Winston & Strawn
17th:
  • Akin Gump
  • Norton Rose Fulbright
  • RPC
  • Shearman & Sterling
  • Travers Smith
  • Weil Gotshal & Manges
21st:
  • Cooley
22nd:
  • DWF
24th:
  • Horwich Farrelly
29th:
  • Ashurst
  • Trowers & Hamlins
30th:
  • PwC
31st:
  • Bates Wells
  • BDB Pitmans
  • Birketts
  • Blandy & Blandy
  • Boodle Hatfield
  • Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
  • Charles Russell Speechlys
  • Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
  • Cooley
  • DAC Beachcroft
  • Dechert
  • Edwin Coe
  • Farrer & Co
  • Fladgate
  • Forsters
  • Hewitsons
  • HFW
  • Hill Dickinson
  • Hugh James
  • K&L Gates
  • Macfarlanes
  • Mayer Brown
  • Michelmores
  • Morgan Lewis & Bockius
  • Muckle
  • Northridge Law
  • Parker Bullen
  • Paul Hastings
  • Penningtons Manches Cooper
  • Ropes & Gray
  • Sidley Austin
  • Stephenson Harwood
  • Stevens & Bolton
  • Thomas Snell & Passmore
  • Wilkin Chapman
  • Willkie Farr & Gallagher
  • Withers

February 2021


1st:
  • Browne Jacobson
  • Gateley PLC
  • Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
  • Lee Bolton Monier-Williams
14th:
  • Baines Wilson
15th:
  • Simmons & Simmons
21st:
  • Russell-Cooke
28th:
  • Bevan Brittan
  • Bridge McFarland
  • Fieldings Porter
  • Fosters Solicitors
  • Kingsley Napley
  • Mills and Co
  • Shoosmiths
  • SJP Law
  • Ward Hadaway
  • Winckworth Sherwood
  • Womble Bond Dickinson

March 2021:

1st:

  • Moore Barlow
  • Punch Robson
5th:
  • Anthony Collins Solicitors
8th:
  • Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer
15th:
  • Leathes Prior
  • PDT Solicitors
  • Simons Muirhead & Burton
23rd:
  • Marriott Harrison
26th:
  • Keebles
27th:
  • Ashtons Legal
29th:
  • Stephens Scown
  • Weightmans
30th:
  • Burnetts
  • Wilson Solicitors
31st:
  • Birkett Long
  • dgb Solicitors
  • Faegre Driker Biddle & Reath
  • Field Seymour Parkes
  • Howes Percival
  • Maurice Turner Gardner
  • Nockolds
  • Osbornes Solicitors
  • Palmers
  • Reed Smith
  • Rolits
  • Taylor Walton
  • Tees
  • Thomson Snell & Passmore
  • Woodfines
  • Wrigley Solicitors

April 2021

1st:
  • Foot Anstey
10th:
  • Higgs & Sons
17th:
  • Furley Page
24th:
  • Harrison Clark Rickerbys
30th:
  • Ashfords
  • Ashtons Legal
  • Campbell-Taylor Solicitors
  • EMW Law
  • Forbes Solicitors
  • Johnson Astills
  • Lester Aldridge
  • Mills & Co Solicitors
  • Parker Bullen
  • Stone King
  • Taylor & Emmet
May 2021:

1st

  • Collas Crill
  • Moore Barlow
  • Savas & Savage Solicitors
3rd
  • BHW Solicitors
10th:
  • Wright Hassall
22nd:
  • Baines Wilson
 
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Jon

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Very helpful, thank you!

Not sure if I'm missing something - can I just ask why BCLP is shown under Jan 19th and then Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner under Jan 31st?
 

Jessica Booker

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Very helpful, thank you!

Not sure if I'm missing something - can I just ask why BCLP is shown under Jan 19th and then Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner under Jan 31st?

might be either two deadlines (one for spring, one for summer) or maybe that it was the 31st and the brought it forward to the 19th. I’ll see if I can find out.

BCLP themselves say 31st Jan for their summer vac scheme, so I will go with that and update the post
 
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Numerius Negidius

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Hi @Jessica Booker , the list has a 31/1 deadline for Paul Hastings. I don't seem to be able to find any information about their vacation scheme on the website other than a page on Chambers Student saying that informal work placements may be available. There doesn't seem to be any mention of a 31/1 deadline.
 

Jessica Booker

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Hi @Jessica Booker , the list has a 31/1 deadline for Paul Hastings. I don't seem to be able to find any information about their vacation scheme on the website other than a page on Chambers Student saying that informal work placements may be available. There doesn't seem to be any mention of a 31/1 deadline.

It may be a mistake where we found the dates from other sites - LCN still list it as having a Summer placement opportunity that closes tomorrow - Paul Hastings (Europe) LLP Training Contracts & Work Placements | LawCareers.Net.

But could easily be the case that LCN is wrong, or that the firm scrapped their vac scheme plans.
 
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