SUMMER INTERN PROGRAMME
About the Programme
WHAT DO YOU DO AS AN INTERN?
This four-week internship involves a comprehensive training and development programme, which will enable you to get the most from your internship experience.
Interns will be placed in one of our five main practice areas, giving them excellent exposure to high quality work. Interns will also get exposure to all of the practice areas within the firm through a series of workshops. You will work on real client matters and pro bono projects, giving you a fully immersive experience. We supplement this with seminars, skills sessions and group competitions in order to give interns a realistic insight into the busy and diverse nature of life as a trainee in a law firm.
A career in Arthur Cox is challenging, exciting and rewarding. Our people are supported in meeting these challenges and developing the knowledge and skills in core areas which are essential to success as a lawyer.
These include:
• Advanced writing and drafting
• Negotiation
• Project management
• Communication
• Working with people
• Practice management
• Business development
WHY SHOULD YOU TAKE PART?
When you join Arthur Cox, you will work with lawyers who are the leaders in commercial law. You will work on the largest, most complex and innovative transactions in Ireland and become part of a team of highly respected experts.
You will work with experts who are committed to giving you exposure to unique situations and opportunities essential for your own professional growth. Development of your professional knowledge and experience is a key feature of our internship programme.
It suits those who have a continuous thirst to develop legal expertise, who have ambitious career prospects, and who prefer an entrepreneurial atmosphere. You’ll find all this in a friendly, inclusive atmosphere.
THINKING ABOUT YOUR FUTURE TRAINEESHIP?
Not only does our Summer Intern Programme give you an insight into Arthur Cox culture and life as a trainee but it can also be an opportunity to go on and become a trainee in the firm. Our Summer Intern Programme is an important pipeline for our Trainee Programme. For the past two years, 100% of interns were offered a traineeship.
If you go on to become a trainee at Arthur Cox, these are some of the highlights of the programme:
- 5 rotations
- Pro bono rotation
- Trainee rotation preferences
- Size of intake – intakes up to 60 trainees
- Zambia project
- Client secondments
- Trainee Bursary
- Comprehensive Knowledge, Learning and Development Programme
- Career progression (Our Managing Partner, Geoff Moore, our Chair, Orla O’Connor, and many of our partners, trained with Arthur Cox)
Find out more about the Arthur Cox trainee programme on the website here or click below to read the brochure.