When it comes to choosing a law firm with which to take your first career steps, there is only so much glossy brochures and stylish websites can tell you. From a firm’s perspective too, there is a limit to what a CV and application form can tell them about a prospective candidate. That is why vacation schemes are so useful and important.
Vacation schemes provide students with an invaluable, if brief, insight into how a firm really operates – not only in terms of the work that it undertakes, but also in less tangible ways, such as the environment, the culture and how people there relate to each other.
