For aspiring lawyers, vacation schemes are an essential path to career progression. Grant Murgatroyd speaks to this summer’s batch of interns and finds out that the chance to network and socialise with employers can be as vital as the actual work
On 15 August, the body of 21-year-old Moritz Erhardt was found in the shower of his east London lodgings. The student was an intern in the investment banking division of Bank of America Merrill Lynch and was reported to have collapsed and died after working 72 hours almost without a break.
