King & Wood Mallesons
2022 Law graduate program (Jul 2022)
Sydney, Sydney
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Opportunity details
- Graduate Job or Program
- AUD 60,000 - 70,000 / Year
- Apply by 12 Mar 2022
- Start date 31 Jul 2022 - 30 Aug 2022
About the Graduate Experience Program
We offer a unique future-focused experience and invest heavily in development to support our graduates in the early stages of their careers.
KWM’s market-leading program is designed to have a positive impact and enhance the graduate experience. Our program is aligned with the firm’s strategic priorities and provides graduates with the knowledge and skills they need for professional and personal growth to become the best they can be.
Tailored for our graduates, the program has an emphasis on legal excellence, technical expertise, commercial skills, knowledge management, legal project management, innovation, social and self-development and client focus.
Our Graduate Program promotes and supports an integrated approach to learning, where you will:
- Build capability through a range of “formal” and “informal” learning experiences, ranging from day-to-day work activities to the more traditional face-to-face learning programs. In each rotation, you will attend a comprehensive practice group Induction, specific to your group. All graduates will come together again throughout the rotations for a series of sessions that build on the foundations covered in Induction.
- Gain on the job experience by undertaking 3 x 6-month rotations across different practice areas and access to a variety of opportunities where you can gain greater on-the-job experience and create a positive impact.
- Take part in our graduate technology boot camps. These boot camps will provide you with exposure to the many different types of emerging legal technologies, which are available at our firm. These skills will help prepare you for the future and ensure that we continue to evolve to meet our clients’ changing needs.
We also offer our graduates a Practical Legal Training (PLT) course with the College of Law, ensuring that you meet the requirements for admission to legal practice.
About us
As a leading international law firm headquartered in Asia and recognised as one of the world’s most innovative law firms, King & Wood Mallesons offers a different perspective to commercial thinking and the client experience. With access to a global platform, a team of almost 3000 lawyers in 28 locations around the world, works with clients to help them understand local challenges, navigate through regional complexity, and to find commercial solutions that deliver a competitive advantage for our clients.
Why work with us?
We want to be the law firm clients love to work with and a great place to work and grow for our people. It’s important to us and our clients that you are our people find working at KWM an enjoyable and rewarding experience.
We know our people value flexibility around when and where they work. So we are committed to offering a more adaptable way to work, we call this Agile Working.
Growth conversations and real-time feedback is also a priority. So whether it’s more targeted and meaningful conversations around professional and personal development, regular feedback, coaching or developing infrastructure, we want to help our people grow.
What else we’ll offer
- Formal and informal flexible working patterns and leave arrangements
- Holistic wellbeing programs to support mental and physical health, including access to a broad range of mental health resources, gym memberships, flu vaccinations and skin cancer checks
- Mobility around our network when opportunities arise
- Access to a large range of learning and development opportunities
- A detailed framework to support working parents in balancing their personal and professional priorities
- Corporate discounts on health and general insurance, superannuation advice and other products and services
- Opportunities to participate in a wide range of pro-bono and community impact programs, and inclusion network
Take charge of your career path – grow and thrive with KWM.
Hiring criteria
- No experience required
- Australian Work Visa (All Other) +more
- Law, Legal Studies & Justice +more
- Bachelor or higher
Reviews
Drafting advices, researching, compiling information
As a grad in my first rotation, the first few weeks are full of lots of training sessions. The work I do depends largely on those more superior to me giving me tasks - these would typically involve legal research, reviewing documents and managing different work streams in a matter.
My day-to-day responsibilities include reviewing documents, legal research, editing documents, corresponding with clients and matter administration.
About the employer
King & Wood Mallesons
4.3
1,000 - 50,000 employees
Law
We are King & Wood Mallesons. The top tier international law firm, from Asia, for the world.
Pros and cons of working at King & Wood Mallesons
Pros
KWM has a strong culture, both within teams and as an organisation. There are many opportunities to socialise at both levels, and the teams in which I have worked have been tight- knit.
The level of training and support - you feel very well connected and resourced to be able to learn.
I have observed many opportunities for career progression at KWM. Those who demonstrate diligence, hard work and commitment are rewarded.
Very flexible. No issue at all. Very accommodating.
We get free corporate gym membership, after hours transport/dinner, and can swap pay for leave.
Cons
It is challenging to constantly try and perform at a high level.
In the morning, you're never quite sure if it's going to be a busy day.
While better than other firms at this from what I've heard, culture can be team-dependent.
As a junior the most difficult part is figuring out what practice area or team you want to join.
Fluctuating hours... work always comes first.