Routes to Freshfields

Graduates join us from all parts of the world.

• We have PRC law graduates who want to ...
  join us as a legal consultant
• We have Common-law, non-Common law, and non-law graduates who want to ...
  join us as a trainee lawyer and apply for a two-year training contract or apply to take part in our four-week vacation programme

If you didn't study law or Common Law, you can still apply for a trainee position. You will need to complete

the Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) before joining us. Our in-house training compensates for the shorter periods GDL candidates have spent studying law.

• We have PRC law graduates who have also obtained an LLM in the US or another country and may also have passed the PRC bar exams who want to join us as an international legal consultant
• And we have US JDs who want to apply for our 12-week US summer associate programme