Digital Legal Delivery Apprentice – Herbert Smith Freehills

*Applications close midday on Friday 28th February 2025

The Opportunity

About Digital Legal Delivery

Digital adaption is presenting businesses with efficiencies and opportunities at pace – Herbert Smith Freehills is no different. Continuing to support our clients with this rapid change, we have created a team of the best analytical legal minds with investments in cutting-edge technology and technologists in our Digital Legal Delivery (Digital) practice group.

Bringing together legal, project management, process design and technology expertise, our Digital practice group supports businesses who need invention from their legal advisors. Leveraging experience to map the intersections where people and tech deliver results, this team supports businesses undergoing their own digitisation projects and those who seek disentanglement from the manual and inefficient processes in the delivery of legal services. Experienced at delivering large and complex legal services, we are experts in the delivery of data-intensive mandates.

Imagining possibilities, HSF’s Digital Legal Delivery practice is implementing the best technology solutions today, while horizon scanning and experimenting with emerging technologies to understand their practical applications.

What you will do

A Legal Apprenticeship within our Digital Legal Delivery Practice Groups offers you the opportunity to work within a global firm which is Bold in its thinking, Human in our approach and Outstanding in all that we do.

During your Apprenticeship within Digital, you can shape your experience – you’ll spend time within our Disputes and Transactions Legal teams, and you’ll also have the option of working within several of the other teams within our practice group, including Legal Technology, Digital Change and Advisory.

You will have the opportunity to become fully immersed and to develop an in-depth understanding of each of the teams that you’ll work with – benefitting from a breadth of knowledge and unique perspectives.

Within our Legal teams, you’ll work on live matters with real clients – many of whom are global leaders in their industries. You will use cutting edge technologies to support with disputes/litigation matters, conducting documentary analysis, reporting on large-scale contentious matters or working as part of a team on the assessment and management of claims.   Working with our Corporate, Finance and Real Estate Legal teams, you’ll help to facilitate deals for our clients, undertaking due diligence, pre and post completion tasks, preparing draft documents, deeds management, lease reporting and liability reviews.

Playing a crucial role within Digital and across the firm in our Legal Technology team you’ll advise and assist with the identification, preservation collection and processing of client data via cutting edge technologies, ensuring the integrity of client and firm information throughout the lifecycle of a matter.

The Digital Change team innovate, invest and pursue the art of the possible when it comes to new uses of legal technology including Generative AI and are key to our firms Digital Ambition.  Within Digital Change you can help to solve business challenges, working with multi-disciplinary teams to test and identify the best solutions for our firm.

Our Advisory team offers you exposure to legal operations and emerging technologies – working across sectors, advising on new ways of working and horizon scanning.  You’ll support the design and delivery of workshops and projects, engaging with clients, partners and other legal teams to understand client needs and challenges.  You will also research legal and regulatory matters relating to emerging technologies such as AI, blockchain, digital assets and the metaverse to create know-how files to be shared across the firm via knowledge sharing calls and newsletters.

Most importantly, you will do all of this within a Diverse and Inclusive environment, which recognises and values your unique skills and perspective within a firm committed to ensuring that Your Growth is Our Ambition.

Our Commitment

Our commitment to helping you grow academically, professionally and personally through:

• A comprehensive benefits package throughout your Apprenticeship, including a competitive salary, generous annual leave and a range of benefits to suit you including our Wellbeing fund of £750 per year.
• One paid day off each week to attend the University of Ulster and a financial contribution towards course materials.
• A range of bespoke professional and personal skills programmes delivered by our HR and L&D teams.
• Mentoring with members of our team and the opportunity to become fully immersed with Life@HSF through our networks and social events.

Qualifications, skills and experience

Essential

• GCSE English minimum Grade C.
• Predicted to achieve a minimum of AAB at A-Level or equivalent UCAS points*.
• You must be 16 or over.
• You must be a UK citizen or someone who has right of residency in the UK.

*mitigating circumstances will be taken into consideration.

Selection Process

• Upload your CV and complete our on-line Application Form.
• Complete remotely an on-line assessment.
• Shortlisted candidates will then be invited to attend an in-person assessment centre in April 2025.

Applications close midday on Friday 28th February 2025

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