SEO London offers students in-depth training, high quality mentoring and summer vacation placements with the leading corporate law firms in the City of London. The ultimate goal is for this experience to lead to a training contract – in the past nine years more than 80% of SEO summer experience students have been offered full-time graduate roles with partner firms, and in excess of 40% have received multiple job offers.
Through its unique Networking series, SEO London will provide every student with access to senior partners at all sponsors of the programme, including Magic Circle, Silver Circle, Top UK and US law firms (full details below).
Students participating in the programme will also have the opportunity to complete multiple vacation placements with different sponsor firms throughout Summer 2010.
Every student participating in the programme will receive in excess of sixty hours of individually tailored pre-summer training to ensure they outperform their peers and maximise their chances of success. In addition, every participant will also be allocated a senior industry mentor to help guide them through their summer experience. Historically, as a result of this exposure and support, more than 80% of the students that have interned through SEO London have gone on to secure full time graduate positions with sponsor firms.
In 2009 51 students received training and exposure through the SEO London Corporate Law programme and for Summer 2010 more than 70 corporate law vacation placements have been confirmed.
The programme is open to penultimate year and final year undergraduates from ethnic minority groups currently under-represented in the City, specifically from Black or Asian backgrounds.
Participating Firms
- Ashurst
- Berwin Leighton Paisner
- Eversheds
- Freshfields
- Goldman Sachs Legal & Compliance
- Herbert Smith
- Linklaters
- Macfarlanes
- Morgan Stanley Legal & Compliance
- Simmons & Simmons
- Weil, Gotshal & Manges
- Winston & Strawn
The number of sponsor firms is growing and is likely to include several other major City law firms in 2011.
- Placement Areas
- Corporate Law Key Dates
- Making a Strong Application
- Preparing for SEO Interviews
- Corporate Law FAQs
- Sponsor Corporate Law Firms
I applied to SEO after they came to visit my University. I previously knew nothing about the organisation nor banking however, after the presentation I was sure that banking was my ideal career! Since then SEO has supported me in so many ways. The pre-internship training was great and due to its rigor you are able to make a real impression from week one. I have a lot to be grateful to SEO for and feel fortunate that I now have my dream job.
Hannah Smith SEO Intern 2009, Investment Banking Programme