Uptree

Placement details

Overview

Location: London & North East

Application deadline date: Monday 30th September 2024 (applications open on 2nd September)

Start date: Monday 28th October 2024 (half-term)

Timeline: This is a 2-year programme to support you to accelerate your legal career

Pay: £500 total split across two instalments across the two years

Application criteria:

• Be in Year 12 in September 2024 at your college or sixth form.
• Be within a one-hour commute of either the London or Newcastle offices ( NRF office hours are 10:00am – 5:00pm).
• Attended a state school for the majority of your time in secondary school.
• Achieve minimum grade requirements - averaging an overall score of six in your top eight subjects, which must include English and Maths.

You must also meet one, or more, of the below criteria:

• Spent time in local authority care
• Grew up in a household where no parent or guardian had attended University
• Have been eligible for free school meals at any point between the ages of 11-16
• Came to this country as a refugee/asylum seeker (you must ordinarily reside in the UK on the first day of the first academic year of your course and have been recognised as a refugee on this date)
• Have been registered as a carer
• The occupation of your main household earner is categorised as a routine or manual occupation.
• You are attending a state school or college with:
  • below average A-Level or Higher point score and/or
  • low rate of progression to higher education

Key skills:

• A curious mind, with strengths in subjects requiring research and analytical skills.
• A passion and interest for creative work or subjects.
• Interest in and curiosity with the world around you, with the ability to look at things from a different perspective.
• A positive attitude, eager to learn and contribute.

 

How to apply: Click 'Apply now' at the top of this page to submit your application. Publicis Groupe use Arctic Shores testing technology to sift applications.

 

About the RISE Work Experience Programme

This course is designed to upskill aspiring legal professionals to be successful in applications for graduate schemes. You will:

• Be enrolled onto a two year development programme with the firm
• Complete work shadowing with both business services and fee earning teams
• Get to know clients with an insight day at their offices
• Participate in a mock assessment centre
• Receive specialist training from in house teams including early careers, learning & development and bids
• Join the NRF mentoring programme to develop your commercial awareness with trainees and clients
• Join NRF for your graduation day in their London office

 

About Norton Rose Fulbright

Norton Rose Fulbright are a global law firm that service many coorperations and industries across the world. They have a key understanding of energy, infrastructure and resources; technology; transport; life sciences and healthcare; and consumer markets.