Legal Tech Graduate Scheme – 

About Eversheds Sutherland

Eversheds Sutherland represents the combination of two firms with a shared culture, values and commitment to client service excellence. We are each known for our commercial awareness and industry knowledge and for providing innovative and tailored solutions for every client.

As a full-service law practice, we act for the public and private sector across the UK, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia and the US providing legal advice to clients across the Company Commercial, Employment, Labour & Pensions, Litigation and Dispute Management, and Real Estate practices.

With 74 offices across 35 countries worldwide, we have become one of the largest law practices in the world and a great place to work and develop your career.

The Team

Service Excellence is an area where we aspire to deliver and maintain high quality services and standards to our clients to help us remain a global trusted adviser. This is about the manner in which we provide legal advice to our clients – legal technology helps us augment the provision of legal services to our clients. We have over 70 service excellence colleagues across the firm to help our legal teams achieve this, led and sponsored by senior members across the firm who are committed to the team’s strategy and development. It is an area that has and continues to grow and develop and therefore a great opportunity to bring in fresh new talent to help us not only maintain the high standards but also enable the continual development and growth. It is an incredibly exciting time to kick start your career in the legal technology industry.

The Role

Our Legal Technology graduate scheme offers the perfect route into an alternative career in law. Over a two-year period, we’ll give you the knowledge, tools and opportunities to experience how legal technology augments our services on a daily basis. You will gain a wealth of information and expertise to make a truly successful and rewarding legal technology career.

Year one:

During year one you will be based in our central Service Excellence Solutions team where you will be immersed in all of our client facing technologies and problem-solving frameworks to learn the fundamentals of legal technology here at Eversheds Sutherland. This will be a mixture of training exercises and live project work.

Year Two:

During year two you will take part in two, six-month placements and will be embedded within the legal practice group service excellence teams.

This dual approach ensures that you get a varied, rich experience and develop a good breadth of knowledge over the duration of the Scheme.

Skill and Experience:

We are looking for individuals who can demonstrate the skills and aptitudes below to succeed as part of our team:

• Applicants are required to have a minimum degree of 2.1 or relevant experience working within a professional services industry.
  Do you have the mental agility and intellectual rigour to analyse problems and develop novel, unexpected solutions?
• Proactive mindset
  Are you naturally inquisitive with an openness to new ideas and the initiative to turn them into practical results?
• commitment to excellence
  Do you hold yourself to the highest standards of performance even when the going is tough? And are you passionate about continuously raising and refining your own performance levels?
• strong interpersonal and communication skills
  Can you communicate fluently, clearly and concisely? Persuade and negotiate with others in both group and individual situations? Make complex information understandable to clients?
• working with others
  Do you have the confidence to collaborate, seek feedback, share ideas and build credibility through your interaction with other people?
   Can you manage your own workload, stay organised under pressure, pay attention to detail and be relied on to complete each task accurately and completely?
• Are you passionate about a career as a legal technologist at Eversheds Sutherland?

Diversity and Inclusion

At Eversheds Sutherland, we recognise that having diverse talent across our business brings many benefits, and we are committed to accessing a wide range of views and thinking in all that we do. A culture of inclusion, where each person feels able to be their true self at work and reach their full potential is key. We recognise that bringing together the perspectives of individuals of all backgrounds, life experiences, preferences and beliefs is critical if we are to serve our global client base, people and communities as a leading global legal practice.

Should you require any reasonable adjustments to enable participation in the recruitment process, please contact us so that we can discuss how best to assist.

We are open to considering flexible working options for our vacancies. Whilst we are not able to offer flexible working across all of our roles, many of our people work flexibly in some way, and we would encourage you to talk to us about this during the hiring process if you would like to explore further.

We are a LGBT+ inclusive employer and are Stonewall Corporate Champions.