An increasing number of law firms are running events that target first-year law students, with a view to attracting them to their firm at the earliest possible stage. For full details on which firms are running first-year law specific open days and vacation schemes, see the table below:
| FIRM | OPEN DAY | VACATION SCHEME | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Offered | Date | Deadline | Offered | Deadline | |
| A&O Shearman | No | Yes | 10/02/25 | ||
| Arnold & Porter LLP | No | Yes | 09/02/25 | ||
| Baker McKenzie | No | Yes | 01/02/25 | ||
| Boyes Turner | No | Yes | 22/03/25 | ||
| Burnetts | No | Yes | 31/03/25 | ||
| Clifford Chance | No | Yes | 04/02/25 | ||
| Curzon Green Solicitors | No | Yes | 31/01/25 | ||
| Dentons | Yes | 13/03/25 | 07/02/25 | Yes | 31/01/25 |
| Dentons | Yes | 15/04/25 | 07/02/25 | Yes | 31/01/25 |
| HK Law | No | Yes | 28/02/25 | ||
| Hogan Lovells | No | Yes | 28/02/25 | ||
| Kingsley Napley LLP | Yes | 05/02/25 | 03/02/25 | No | |
| Latham & Watkins | No | Yes | 26/01/25 | ||
| Linklaters LLP | No | Yes | 06/02/25 | ||
| Macfarlanes LLP | No | Yes | 24/01/25 | ||
| Myerson Solicitors | No | Yes | 01/05/25 | ||
| Osborne Clarke LLP | No | Yes | 28/02/25 | ||
| Reed Smith | No | Yes | 10/02/25 | ||
| Simmons & Simmons LLP | No | Yes | 31/01/25 | ||
| Taylor Wessing | No | Yes | 01/02/25 | ||
| Weil, Gotshal & Manges (London) LLP | Yes | 05/12/25 | 01/12/24 | No | |
| White & Case LLP | No | Yes | 30/03/25 | ||
| Willkie Farr & Gallagher (UK) LLP | No | Yes | 31/01/25 | ||
| Withers LLP | Yes | 26/02/25 | 12/01/25 | No | |
| FIRM | OPEN DAY | VACATION SCHEME | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Offered | Date | Deadline | Offered | Deadline | |
| Kingsley Napley LLP | Yes | 05/02/25 | 03/02/25 | No | |
| Weil, Gotshal & Manges (London) LLP | Yes | 05/12/25 | 01/12/24 | No | |
| Withers LLP | Yes | 26/02/25 | 12/01/25 | No | |
| Macfarlanes LLP | No | Yes | 24/01/25 | ||
| Latham & Watkins | No | Yes | 26/01/25 | ||
| Curzon Green Solicitors | No | Yes | 31/01/25 | ||
| Dentons | Yes | 13/03/25 | 07/02/25 | Yes | 31/01/25 |
| Dentons | Yes | 15/04/25 | 07/02/25 | Yes | 31/01/25 |
| Simmons & Simmons LLP | No | Yes | 31/01/25 | ||
| Willkie Farr & Gallagher (UK) LLP | No | Yes | 31/01/25 | ||
| Baker McKenzie | No | Yes | 01/02/25 | ||
| Taylor Wessing | No | Yes | 01/02/25 | ||
| Clifford Chance | No | Yes | 04/02/25 | ||
| Linklaters LLP | No | Yes | 06/02/25 | ||
| Arnold & Porter LLP | No | Yes | 09/02/25 | ||
| A&O Shearman | No | Yes | 10/02/25 | ||
| Reed Smith | No | Yes | 10/02/25 | ||
| HK Law | No | Yes | 28/02/25 | ||
| Hogan Lovells | No | Yes | 28/02/25 | ||
| Osborne Clarke LLP | No | Yes | 28/02/25 | ||
| Boyes Turner | No | Yes | 22/03/25 | ||
| White & Case LLP | No | Yes | 30/03/25 | ||
| Burnetts | No | Yes | 31/03/25 | ||
| Myerson Solicitors | No | Yes | 01/05/25 | ||
| Clyde & Co LLP | No | Yes | 06/01/25 | ||
| Fieldfisher | No | Yes | 14/12/24 | ||
| Obaseki Solicitors & Estate Agents | No | Yes | 31/05/24 | ||
| Moss & Co | No | Yes | 01/05/24 | ||
| Bridger & Co Solicitors | No | Yes | 31/03/24 | ||
| Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP | No | Yes | 29/02/24 | ||
| Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP | No | Yes | 15/02/24 | ||
| Freeths LLP | No | Yes | 02/02/24 | ||
| Ashurst LLP | Yes | 29/02/24 | 29/02/24 | No | |
| Dentons | Yes | 12/03/24 | 19/02/24 | No | |
| Dentons | Yes | 17/04/24 | 19/02/24 | No | |
| Dentons | Yes | 04/12/24 | 04/12/24 | No | |
| RPC | Yes | 27/03/24 | 18/03/24 | No | |
| Travers Smith LLP | Yes | 12/11/24 | No | ||
| Travers Smith LLP | Yes | 27/11/24 | 18/11/24 | No | |
| Weil, Gotshal & Manges (London) LLP | Yes | 26/11/24 | 17/11/24 | No | |
| Weil, Gotshal & Manges (London) LLP | Yes | 04/12/24 | 24/11/24 | No | |
| Weightmans LLP | Yes | 16/01/25 | 16/01/25 | No | |
