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Trainee Solicitors at Tanner De Witt

The intake for 2025 is open until 30 June 2024. For inquiries email : careers@tannerdewitt.com (applications without transcripts will not be considered).

Tanner De Witt is a Hong Kong based law firm established in 1999 with a team of 100, including more than 50 fee earners. The firm is committed to providing a challenging, rewarding, and professional programme for our trainee solicitors.

The firm recruits up to four trainee solicitors each year. From day one, a trainee solicitor will be part of a team working on actual cases, bringing you into direct contact with clients both in Hong Kong and internationally.

Who should apply

• Upper second class law degree (2 : 1 or equivalent);
• Excellent English language skills are a must; knowledge of Chinese is not essential but is a distinct advantage;
• Tanner De Witt welcomes both local and overseas applicants who have excelled academically and who ideally have had experience overseas gaining personal development;
• An offer of a training contract is made subject to first-time successful completion of PCLL.

How and when to apply

Please send your covering letter, CV and supporting documents including examination transcripts (high school and university) to careers@tannerdewitt.

com. Applications without transcripts will not be considered. Applications sent directly to partners will not be considered.

• All applications will be acknowledged within one month.
• First interview : conducted by 2 partners in July / August.
• Second interview : conducted by another 2 partners in August / September.
• Shortlisted applicants from the second interview will be required to attend a written test.

Here are some considerations for applicants :

• You are not in competition with your fellow trainees. Each trainee brings unique experiences, skills, and personality to the firm and will be judged on their own merits.
• The more you put in, the more you will get out of your two-year training contract. It is up to you to set the pace of your progress.
• Make sure you are involved in the work of all members of your department, not just the partners.
• You can learn relevant skills from everybody here, including administrative staff and professional staff.
• Never turn away work all experience is important.
• The legal work you experience in any six-month period is determined by the market and not by the firm.
• Have a realistic expectation of where you should be after six months don’t expect to be able to do everything that is done in each department.
• Your expectation in each six-month period should be to progress from being a spectator to being a participant in the work of the department.
• By the end of the two-year training contract, you should be able to decide (i) whether you want to remain in private practice or move into some other aspect of the legal profession and (ii) whether your character and method of working is more suited to contentious work or non-contentious work.

Once those decisions are made, it will be easier for you to plan your future.

Work levels and other factors permitting, the firm would expect to be able to offer successful trainees a position in the firm after qualification.

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Last updated : 2024-11-16