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Firm Profile

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  • Our Structure
  • Get to know us
  • Your development
  • What we look for
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Firm Background

We have 26 offices around the world so wherever you join us, and whatever you do, you’ll be part of a global team managing, achieving and delivering cutting-edge work for international and multidisciplinary clients.

Takeovers and mergers. Arbitration and litigation. Finance and real estate. As a world class professional services business, our work is incredibly varied. Thanks to the quality of our global network and world-class Business Services professionals, we work with some of the biggest international organisations on some of their most ambitious projects.

We are interested in who you are and the strengths you can bring. We look for exceptional people from a diverse range of backgrounds with the passion and ability to become truly brilliant lawyers.

And there’s more to that than just a great academic record. There’s fantastic perception and communication skills. There’s confidence and collaboration skills. Empathy, an international mindset and diligence. And there’s the drive to not only experience everything, but to be a part of it.

Join us as a Herbert Smith Freehills graduate and you’ll do more than just experience life at a leading law firm, you’ll be a part of everything we have to offer.

Our Structure

We’re organised along six global divisions – corporate; dispute resolution; finance, real estate and projects; employment, pensions and incentives; competition, regulation and trade and Alternative Legal Services

OUR SERVICES

  • Business and human rights
  • Capital markets
  • Competition, regulation and trade
  • Corporate
  • Corporate crime and investigations
  • Crisis prevention and management
  • Cyber security
  • Dispute resolution
  • Employment, pensions and incentives
  • Finance
  • Financial services regulatory
  • Intellectual property
  • International arbitration
  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Projects and infrastructure
  • Real estate
  • Restructuring, turnaround and insolvency
  • Tax
  • US securities

OUR SECTORS

  • Agribusiness
  • Banks
  • Consumer Products
  • Energy
  • Financial buyers
  • Financial Services
  • Government and public sector
  • Infrastructure
  • Leisure and sport
  • Manufacturing and industrials
  • Mining
  • Pharmaceuticals and healthcare
  • Professional, support and business services
  • Real estate
  • Technology, media and telecommunications
  • Agribusiness
  • Banks

For more information about our structure visit: herbertsmithfreehills.com/au/grads/get-to-know-us

Get to know us

We’re proud of our culture. It’s supportive and it’s non-hierarchical. When you join us as a graduate, you’ll find that your growth is supported at all levels across the firm – whether you’re working on a high-profile takeover, catching up with an overseas client or taking on some challenging pro bono work.

It’s an environment that will give you the skills you need to become an exceptional lawyer. And it’s an environment in which your perspective, ideas and experiences will make a real difference.

Our work in the community

At Herbert Smith Freehills our focus is on using our expertise and leadership to increase access to justice and opportunity for the benefit of local and global communities. At the core of Herbert Smith Freehills’ approach is a long-standing and proud tradition of providing pro bono legal services and advocacy. This commitment to pro bono legal services for members of the public has developed into a broader program of volunteering and charitable giving that involves a much wider range of people across this firm. Many of our vacation clerks participate in pro bono and community work and describe it as one of the highlights of their clerkship.

For more information about our pro bono and community work visit: herbertsmithfreehills.com/pro-bono-and-citizenship 

 A rich and diverse culture

Herbert Smith Freehills is proud to promote a culture of fairness, equality and inclusion. We believe that having a diverse and open workplace adds new dimensions to how we tackle client challenges and drives innovation forward. Wherever you join us, you’ll find talented people with different views, experiences and backgrounds.

In Australia, we have focused our efforts to be more inclusive and our first priority was to run inclusive leadership sessions for the entire partnership so that we could each understand why diversity and inclusion is a business imperative for our firm.

For more information on our diversity and inclusion program visit: herbertsmithfreehills.com/about-us/diversity-and-inclusion.

Your development

We view you as the partners of the future, so it goes without saying that your development is incredibly important to us. Our full service practice and extensive work for international clients means you’ll enjoy a varied experience across contentious and non-contentious departments.
 
As well as getting exposure to a huge breadth of work, you’ll be supported to grow your career and reach your goals with flexible training and development plans. Individually designed, these plans will allow you to gain experience in all areas and help you find what's best for you and your career.

We’ve prepared a guide you may find useful on our website: herbertsmithfreehills.com/au/grads/your-development

 

What we look for

We are interested in who you are and the strengths you can bring. We recruit employees from a wide range of backgrounds who possess the qualities we look for in our lawyers, such as intellectual curiosity, confidence, clarity of thought, a sense of the bigger picture, the ambition to grow personally and professionally, and the ability to develop exceptional working relationships with clients and colleagues. We look for students who want to pursue a career in commercial law and who demonstrate a commercial awareness.

We are interested in your academic record as well as evidence of strong communication and interpersonal skills, a balanced university life, and ability to work effectively in a team.

We’ve prepared some more detailed guidance on our website: https://careers.herbertsmithfreehills.com/au/grads/join-us

 

 

Firm Background

We have 26 offices around the world so wherever you join us, and whatever you do, you’ll be part of a global team managing, achieving and delivering cutting-edge work for international and multidisciplinary clients.

Takeovers and mergers. Arbitration and litigation. Finance and real estate. As a world class professional services business, our work is incredibly varied. Thanks to the quality of our global network and world-class Business Services professionals, we work with some of the biggest international organisations on some of their most ambitious projects.

We are interested in who you are and the strengths you can bring. We look for exceptional people from a diverse range of backgrounds with the passion and ability to become truly brilliant lawyers.

And there’s more to that than just a great academic record. There’s fantastic perception and communication skills. There’s confidence and collaboration skills. Empathy, an international mindset and diligence. And there’s the drive to not only experience everything, but to be a part of it.

Join us as a Herbert Smith Freehills graduate and you’ll do more than just experience life at a leading law firm, you’ll be a part of everything we have to offer.

Our Structure

We’re organised along six global divisions – corporate; dispute resolution; finance, real estate and projects; employment, pensions and incentives; competition, regulation and trade and Alternative Legal Services

OUR SERVICES

  • Business and human rights
  • Capital markets
  • Competition, regulation and trade
  • Corporate
  • Corporate crime and investigations
  • Crisis prevention and management
  • Cyber security
  • Dispute resolution
  • Employment, pensions and incentives
  • Finance
  • Financial services regulatory
  • Intellectual property
  • International arbitration
  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Projects and infrastructure
  • Real estate
  • Restructuring, turnaround and insolvency
  • Tax
  • US securities

OUR SECTORS

  • Agribusiness
  • Banks
  • Consumer Products
  • Energy
  • Financial buyers
  • Financial Services
  • Government and public sector
  • Infrastructure
  • Leisure and sport
  • Manufacturing and industrials
  • Mining
  • Pharmaceuticals and healthcare
  • Professional, support and business services
  • Real estate
  • Technology, media and telecommunications
  • Agribusiness
  • Banks

For more information about our structure visit: herbertsmithfreehills.com/au/grads/get-to-know-us

Get to know us

We’re proud of our culture. It’s supportive and it’s non-hierarchical. When you join us as a graduate, you’ll find that your growth is supported at all levels across the firm – whether you’re working on a high-profile takeover, catching up with an overseas client or taking on some challenging pro bono work.

It’s an environment that will give you the skills you need to become an exceptional lawyer. And it’s an environment in which your perspective, ideas and experiences will make a real difference.

Our work in the community

At Herbert Smith Freehills our focus is on using our expertise and leadership to increase access to justice and opportunity for the benefit of local and global communities. At the core of Herbert Smith Freehills’ approach is a long-standing and proud tradition of providing pro bono legal services and advocacy. This commitment to pro bono legal services for members of the public has developed into a broader program of volunteering and charitable giving that involves a much wider range of people across this firm. Many of our vacation clerks participate in pro bono and community work and describe it as one of the highlights of their clerkship.

For more information about our pro bono and community work visit: herbertsmithfreehills.com/pro-bono-and-citizenship 

 A rich and diverse culture

Herbert Smith Freehills is proud to promote a culture of fairness, equality and inclusion. We believe that having a diverse and open workplace adds new dimensions to how we tackle client challenges and drives innovation forward. Wherever you join us, you’ll find talented people with different views, experiences and backgrounds.

In Australia, we have focused our efforts to be more inclusive and our first priority was to run inclusive leadership sessions for the entire partnership so that we could each understand why diversity and inclusion is a business imperative for our firm.

For more information on our diversity and inclusion program visit: herbertsmithfreehills.com/about-us/diversity-and-inclusion.

Your development

We view you as the partners of the future, so it goes without saying that your development is incredibly important to us. Our full service practice and extensive work for international clients means you’ll enjoy a varied experience across contentious and non-contentious departments.
 
As well as getting exposure to a huge breadth of work, you’ll be supported to grow your career and reach your goals with flexible training and development plans. Individually designed, these plans will allow you to gain experience in all areas and help you find what's best for you and your career.

We’ve prepared a guide you may find useful on our website: herbertsmithfreehills.com/au/grads/your-development

 

What we look for

We are interested in who you are and the strengths you can bring. We recruit employees from a wide range of backgrounds who possess the qualities we look for in our lawyers, such as intellectual curiosity, confidence, clarity of thought, a sense of the bigger picture, the ambition to grow personally and professionally, and the ability to develop exceptional working relationships with clients and colleagues. We look for students who want to pursue a career in commercial law and who demonstrate a commercial awareness.

We are interested in your academic record as well as evidence of strong communication and interpersonal skills, a balanced university life, and ability to work effectively in a team.

We’ve prepared some more detailed guidance on our website: https://careers.herbertsmithfreehills.com/au/grads/join-us