About Allen & Overy
Allen & Overy LLP is an international legal practice with approximately 4,750 staff, including some 480 partners, working in 39 major centres worldwide. Our clients include many of the world's top businesses, financial institutions and governments.

Start at the top
Starting your career with Allen & Overy means starting at the very top of international commercial law. We are renowned for the high quality of our Banking, Corporate and International Capital Markets advice, but also have major strengths in areas such as Litigation & Dispute Resolution, Employment & Benefits, Tax and Real Estate. Our partners frequently lead the field in their particular areas of law and we can claim both an enviable reputation among clients and unrivalled success in major deals.

What are our graduate opportunities?
We recruit 90 trainee solicitors each year across two intakes (March and September). Applications are welcome from law and non-law undergraduates and graduates. Final year non-law undergraduates and graduates can apply from 1 November 2011 - 15 January 2012. Penultimate year law undergraduates and law graduates can apply for our training contracts from 1 June 2012 - 31 July 2012.

Allen & Overy offers 60 vacation placements across the year. The winter placement is for finalists and graduates who should apply from 1 October - 31 October 2011. Summer placements are for penultimate year undergraduates who can apply from 1 November 2011 - 15 January 2012.

'Allen & Overy LLP' refers to Allen & Overy LLP and/or its affiliated undertakings.

Kaplan Law School is delighted to sponsor LUMS. Students who moot are more likely to enjoy success in their hunt for a training contract or pupillage. Mooting develops analytical skills, presentation skills and courage!

Kaplan offers the GDL, LPC and BPTC. Eleven firms send all of their trainees to us. Our BPTC, with its selection day, is the toughest to get into in the country. Our emphasis is on making sure that teaching is a personal experience. We are located in the lovely Borough Market; it is a great place to study.

Aspiring barristers in particular might like to know that we offer BPTC scholarships to experienced mooters. We wish LUMS continued success.

Field Court Chambers operates from two of the most beautiful buildings in the Inns of Court: 2 and 5 Field Court. Its members practise in the fields of commercial, employment, family, personal injury, property and public law and offer strength in depth across that practice range. Chambers is an acknowledged leader in the family and property fields, has long established links with Local Government clients across the country, and a strong public service ethic.

For more information about Field Court Chambers, including details of how to apply for pupillage and mini-pupillages, please visit www. fieldcourt.co.uk.

5 Stone Buildings is an outstanding set of chancery chambers. Members’ work covers a wide span of civil law from specialist trust, pensions and revenue work through to professional negligence, banking, general litigation and all areas relating to property law. There is an unrivalled team experienced in Court of Protection work. Members are experienced in providing advice, drafting and litigation services relating to trusts, wills and associated taxation both in the UK and overseas. Many of our members are recommended in both Chambers UK and the Legal 500.

To find out more about our work, mini-pupillage and pupillage opportunities, please visit www.5sblaw.com.

Advocacy is the lifeblood of the Bar, and 3 Verulam Buildings is proud to support LUMS, an excellent showcase of the talent of the future.

3VB is one of the top commercial barristers’ chambers, pre-eminent in banking, civil fraud and financial services law, areas of crucial importance in the current economic climate. We are also highly rated for our insurance and reinsurance, professional negligence, media and entertainment, IT and telecoms and general commercial dispute work.

Recent and current cases members of chambers have been or are involved in include the high- profile test case on overdraft charges, disputes arising out of Lehmans’ insolvency, Jacobs v JK Rowling, Russian oligarch disputes Cherney v Deripaska and Berezovsky v Anisimov, the Al Gosaibi fraud claim, the Singapore Formula 1 crash dispute, and the Guantanamo Bay detention litigation.

We offer three twelve-month pupillages through OLPAS, with an award in of £60,000, and two- or three-day mini-pupillages throughout the year. For more information about 3 Verulam Buildings and the opportunities we offer please visit chambers’ website.

2 Bedford Row is widely regarded as one of the leading criminal sets in the country.

Specialising in all types of serious crime, fraud, confiscation, HSE work and regulatory law, members of 2 Bedford Row are regularly instructed in high profile criminal cases both within the UK and internationally. With over 20 silks and 66 tenants our work includes prosecution and defence work at all levels from the Magistrates Court up to the Supreme Court.

Chambers is renowned for its commitment to providing advocates of distinction and as such continues to offer 4 pupillages per annum, with tenants and pupils alike enjoying the unrivalled support of each other and the clerking team.

Chambers is delighted to become a proud sponsor of this competition.

For more information about the work we do and pupillages/mini-pupillages please visit www.www.2bedfordrow.com.