Summer Vacation Scheme 2027

Prospects; Greater London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Travers Smith is offering a Summer Vacation Scheme for 2027 in London. The scheme runs twice yearly as three 2-week blocks, featuring talks, workshops, a case study, and a negotiating exercise. Vacation Scheme students are paid £750 for each completed week, contingent on completing all three assessments for eligibility.

Dates are 14 June–25 June, 28 June–9 July, and 12 July–23 July 2027. Participants are exposed to department insights and close contact with Trainees, with several networking

Job description

At Travers Smith, you’ll be trusted with real responsibility from day one—speaking to clients, joining meetings, and managing your own work, all with plenty of support and guidance. That’s why we look for people who match academic strength with clear-headed judgement and practical sense.

The Early Careers team at Travers Smith is dedicated to finding the very best future lawyers whether you’re applying as a school leaver, university student, or graduate - who not only meet our high standards of excellence but also share our people-focused values. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds who have the ambition, drive, and curiosity to build a successful legal career, and we’re committed to giving you the support and opportunities you need to grow. If you’re keen to challenge yourself intellectually and want to contribute to a collaborative, inclusive firm where you’ll be celebrated for who you are, we’d love to hear from you. We take law and non-law students, with genuinely no preference for one over the other - over 45% of our trainees have non-law backgrounds.

Summer Vacation Scheme 2027

Our Vacation Schemes take place twice in the year in the form of three 2-week schemes in the Summer. The schemes follow our internal programme, which includes a number of talks, workshops, a case study and a negotiating exercise. There will be department insights and close contact with Trainees, with the two weeks designed specifically to give students an authentic taste of a City lawyer's work. There are also working lunches and informal evening events.

Vacation Scheme students are paid £750 for completing each week. However, you must complete all three assessments on the scheme to be eligible for payment. The exact dates of each scheme are: 14 June to 25 June 2027, 28 June to 9 July 2027, 12 July to 23 July 2027.

• On track for a 2:1 (but taking into account mitigating circumstances)
• To be eligible, you will need to be past your first year of study.

It is not just law at Travers Smith. We treat our clients’ business as our business, their dispute as our dispute, their challenges as ours. We act for publicly listed and private companies, financial services and private equity clients, as well as other business enterprises involved in large and complex UK and cross-border matters, transactions and disputes. Our clients know that wherever in the world they or their ambitions lie, we will work as one of their team to get things done and they know that we do so in a straight-talking, thoughtful and open way. Diversity and independence of thought are key to our success. We know each other well and we know that we get the best results when we act as a team – not just within our legal teams, but right across our firm where we welcome diversity of thought and views from everyone. This is our difference and we are proud of it.

Our business comprises the following main practice areas: Commercial, IP & Technology, Competition, Corporate M&A and Equity Capital Markets, Derivatives & Structured Products, Dispute Resolution, Employment, Finance, Financial Services & Markets, Investment Funds, Incentives & Remuneration, Operational Risk & Environment, Pensions, Private Equity & Financial Sponsors, Real Estate, and Tax.