Vacation scheme deadlines - 2021

[Jessica Booker]

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

 

[HorsesForCoursesNeighNeighNeigh]

Amazingly helpful, thanks!

 

[Jon]

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]

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

 

[Numerius Negidius]

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]

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.

 

[K1111]

hey! is there any deadlines or even intakes for magic circle firms?