Clayton Utz
Clients & Markets Intern Program (Jan 2024)
Sydney
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Opportunity details
- Internship, Clerkship or Placement
- AUD 60,000 - 70,000 / Year
- 1-2 vacancies
- Apply by 16 Dec 2023
- Start date 31 Jan 2024 - 28 Feb 2024
Are you an enthusiastic and motivated penultimate-year university student wanting to grow your business skills and experience? We looking for students currently enrolled in a business, marketing or communications degree.
The Clayton Utz Clients & Markets intern program provides you with the opportunity to build your professional and technical expertise and gain experience across the services and advice the Clients & Markets team provides:
- Go-to-market strategies alongside our practice and industry groups
- Account management, including implementing strategic initiatives for our key clients
- Media engagement, crisis communications, and client and internal communications
- Managing the firm's digital channels, creating bespoke client communications and events and the management of the firm's brand.
You will be working with a large team with an excellent reputation for providing training, mentoring and continued support for career development in professional services and beyond.
You will be a great fit if you have a positive approach to work, are energetic and eager to learn, with strong communication skills, and thrive working in a fast-paced team.
This is a part-time 6-month-paid internship program commencing in February 2024 in our Sydney office.
If this sounds right to you - please apply by providing your CV along with answering the below questions in 150 words or less, only candidates who answer the questions will be considered for the role:
- Tell us about a time you had an excellent customer experience
- What do you hope to learn through this internship?
We look forward to meeting you.
Clayton Utz
As Australia’s leading independent law firm, our culture has been built by innovative thinkers. They are the driving force behind our firm and if you choose to be part of the team your expectations will be challenged every step of the way.
As part of this innovative team, you will be working across major national, government, and global clients. All the while collaborating with some of the sharpest legal minds in the industry. Clayton Utz has also been a powerful force in Australian pro bono practice, striving to deliver justice for those who need it and not just those who can afford it. In your time here you’ll be constantly surprised by the projects you get to work on and what you can accomplish.
We’re looking for individuals who will thrive under our spirit of independence. Built around independent thinkers we believe surrounding ourselves with dynamic, ambitious and collaborative individuals is key to creating an environment of success. In return, we're committed to fostering a career path that's unique to each individual. Imagine what you could achieve at a top law firm that values independent thinking. Are you up for the challenge?
Accessibility and Inclusion
We are committed to making reasonable adjustments to provide a positive, barrier-free recruitment process. Do you require any support or reasonable adjustments to complete your application? If so, please contact the recruiter via the above telephone number or email
For more information on Clayton Utz, please visit our website and other social media accounts.
Hiring criteria
- No experience required
- Australian Citizen +more
- Business & Management +more
- Associate Degree or higher
Reviews
I have been working on some big matters and have generally been working on tasks for those matters. Additionally I have been picking up work around that and have gotten experience in making chronologies, summarising medical documents and drafting an advice or brief to counsel.
This is extremely team dependent. Personally I am tasked with the negotiation, drafting and project management of various 'deals' - i.e. the legal aspects of an acquisition or financing which requires contracts to be entered into. At the more junior level (i.e. when you just start) you are typically expected to do banal checks of documents until you prove you have the attention to detail required to: (i) learn what the documents do; and (ii) therefore apply the risk tolerance of your respective client to the words in those documents. This is like learning a new language.
As a graduate I am given the opportunity to get involved in lots of really interesting, high profile matters. I am treated like a lawyer in the team and I am given meaningful work like drafting key legal documents, attending team meetings to contribute to the strategy and conduct of matters, managing the preparation of briefs to counsel, reviewing documents and conducting legal research.
About the employer
Clayton Utz
3.8
1,000 - 50,000 employees
Law
Proudly Australian. Globally connected. As one of Australia's leading law firms, Clayton Utz gives confident, innovative and incisive legal advice.
Pros and cons of working at Clayton Utz
Pros
The best there is. You know where you stand with people here. If you come into the firm eager to learn and apply yourself to the work, everyone will invest in you.
As a graduate, I am given the opportunity to get involved in lots of really interesting, high-profile matters.
The partners really care about the people in their team and I have felt supported and accepted throughout my experience at the firm.
The support system at the firm helps with this quite a lot. People are able to maintain a great work-life balance as long as they communicate well.
Diversity is a strong factor at Clayton Utz. It is embraced throughout the firm, and everyone is welcoming of differing backgrounds and opinions.
Cons
The hours can be (very) long during busy periods and there can be limited flexibility during those times.
Remuneration could be better.
They could improve the office snacks.
The work demands.
They provide so much training, almost too much.