Uptree

Placement details

Overview

Location: Hybrid opportunity - 5 day placement, with 2 days in a UK office, and 3 days virtual.

Salary/pay: This is a paid placement, and candidates will receive £500 for the week.

Start dates:

• LIFT Social Mobility: 8th-12th July 2024
• LIFT Black Heritage: 15th-19th July 2024

Application criteria:

• Applicants must be aged 18 years or older, and no longer in a compulsory year of education.
• No minimum grade requirements.
• LIFT Social Mobility requires applicants to meet at least one of the below criteria:
  • Eligible for free school meals.
  • Household income of less than £21,000 at aged 14 or so.
  • Parent/carer did not attend university
  • Ocupation of highest-paid parent/carer was technical/craft occupations, routine/manual occupations, or unemployed, when aged 14 or so.
  • Spent time in local-authority care, or have experience being a carer.
  • Refuge or asylum seeker status as a child.
  • Experienced homelessness.
  • Consider yourself to be from a lower socio-economic background.
• LIFT Black Heritage requires applicants to be of black heritage. This includes anyone that identifies as Black, African, Caribbean, Black British or Mixed/Multiple ethnic groups: Black African/Caribbean/British and one or more other ethnicities.

If you are eligible for both programmes, please only apply to LIFT Black Heritage.

Key skills:

• Clyde & Co are looking for individuals that are passionate about embracing the experience, and those that are willing to learn!

Application deadline: LIFT Social Mobility and LIFT Black Heritage applications close on Sunday 24th March 2024.

How to apply: Click 'Apply now!' at the top of this page, and fill out the application form & motivation statement.

 

About Clyde & Co.

Clyde & Co has grown to become a leading global law firm in their core sectors. With a headcount of over 5,500 staff operating from over 60 offices and associated offices across six continents, they offer a comprehensive range of legal services and advice to businesses operating at the heart of global trade and commerce.

From developed to emerging markets, Clyde & Co aim to support their clients by putting the power of their globally integrated law firm at their disposal with a range of seamless and efficient services and the very best, commercially minded, legal advice.