Set sail on your career with our summer placement

Summer placements last for two weeks at either our Glasgow or Edinburgh office and will take place in June of each year. There is a timetable of activities and events to provide an introduction to the Firm, the delivery of legal services and the Firm’s systems and procedures – not just the legal side or indeed the photocopier! It will also give you an opportunity to demonstrate your potential to contribute to the Firm.

A fortnight may seem short but the structure of the placement should mean that it is a challenging and rewarding experience and there will also be some fun!

The placement will be remunerated.

What previous summer applicant students have said

“McClure Naismith exceeded my expectations. The work assigned to me on my placement provided me with opportunities to not only improve my existing legal skills but to show what I can already do. A sense of pressure was provided in terms of meeting deadlines for the case study and debate tasks which added an extra sense of realism to the experience. Realism was further enforced by the hours worked – I wasn’t typically doing a 9-5 day, I occasionally had to stay on later or work through my lunch to get tasks done. I felt more immersed in the office because of it. It was a challenging experience – which I feel is one of its greatest assets.”

“I was taken aback at how friendly everyone was. Generally, there is a perception that there is a barrier in law firms between partners and associates with the rest of the staff. I never found this at McClures. I found everyone that I met to be very approachable and easygoing.”

“I loved having the chance to interact with everyone – partners, trainees, solicitors, facilities staff and even with clients on the final morning. It’s only by speaking to people who have a different range of roles within the firm that you can gauge its true ethos and the opportunity to do this is probably what sets McClure’s summer placement apart from other large city centre firms.”

“The placement scheme thoroughly exceeded all expectations. I’ve heard too many tales of afternoons spent by the photocopier or essentially being a messenger-person. The hard-work put into the structure and organisation of the scheme certainly pays off and ranks it well above other placements.”

How to Apply for a Summer Placement

As our summer placements programme for 2010 is now full, details of the recruitment process for summer placements in 2011 will be available on our website later this year.

Our commitment to you and your commitment to us

The summer placement scheme forms an integral part of our recruitment process for trainees and is only available to those students who are actively seeking a training contract.

Should we offer you a summer placement we are making a commitment to you to provide you with that placement. You are also making a commitment to us to undertake the placement. It is unacceptable and unfair to other students to pull out of the placement after accepting it. You should therefore apply only if you are certain that you wish to undertake a placement with us.

Further, any candidate who takes part in on our summer placement scheme in the knowledge that they have accepted a training contract with another firm should be aware that they are depriving a fellow student of an opportunity to potentially secure a training contract.