You are not a possession under our training
system. You don't belong to a particular lawyer or
department. Our system gives you flexibility to gain experience
in a variety of practice areas, each with different challenges,
including:
Corporate - advising on public company flotations and
"initial public offerings" (i.e. IPOs), mergers
and acquisitions of public and private companies, joint
ventures, raising finance for management buy-outs and
start-up businesses and public debt and equity offerings
for more mature companies.
Banking and Finance - advising lenders and borrowers
on a range of international and domestic financing transactions,
including innovative property financing deals.
Real Estate - working on a range of property development
schemes, such as shopping centres, airports, business
parks and sports stadia, including environment and planning
issues.
Litigation - bringing and defending court and tribunal
actions, mediating and arbitrating disputes across a variety
of areas including negligence, contract, insurance, insolvency,
intellectual property and employment.
Jones Day serves an international client base which includes
more than 250 of the Fortune 500 companies in the US as
well as major companies based in Europe, the Middle East,
Asia, Latin America and Australia. In London, our lawyers
work for a variety of UK clients, as well as advising on
the UK side of multi-national transactions. The prominence
and diversity of our clients allow our lawyers to be challenged
regularly by novel ideas and developments in a variety of
practice areas.
If you wish
to apply for a training contracts commencing in September 2010 or March
2011, we will be accepting applications from final year law and non-law
students from November 1st 2007. If you are a penultimate year law undergraduate
you should apply between your penultimate and final years of study once
you have received your 2nd year exam results.
If you are interested in applying for our Spring or Summer placement
schemes we will open for applications on 31st October 2008. For more information
see placement schemes.
