Summer Students 2025

About the Firm

Clifford Chance is one of the world's leading international law firms, helping clients to achieve their goals by combining the highest global standards with local expertise. The firm has unrivalled scale and depth of legal resources across the key financial and commercial markets of Africa, America, Asia-Pacific, Europe and the Middle East and focuses on the core areas of commercial activity: Banking & Finance; Capital Markets; Corporate and M&A; Litigation and Dispute Resolution; Real Estate; Tax, Pensions and Employment. Clifford Chance has 33 offices in 22 countries and more than 6,700 legal advisers.  

The Spanish offices in Madrid (1980) and Barcelona (1993) work closely together and play key roles within our global network. 

To find out more about what it is like to work in Clifford Chance in Spain, please visit the link. 

Students in the penultimate year of their Spanish law graduate degree are invited to apply for a work placement in our Madrid or Barcelona offices, starting in either June or July 2025.

To apply for this position, you must:

• Be a student in the penultimate year of your degree in Spanish law during 2024/2025.
• Have a first-class academic record (a grade point average of a high Notable in the core subjects).
• Be fluent in written and spoken English.

Candidates selected may join one of the following practice groups: Antitrust, Corporate/M&A, Employment Law, Global Financial Markets (Banking & Finance and Capital Markets) Litigation & Dispute Resolution, Public Law, Real Estate and Tax. 

For more information about our firm, please visit our dedicated Careers in Spain site.

If you meet the requirements indicated in Qualifications and are interested in the position, please apply online as directed below, answering the questions posed with care, and attaching your Curriculum Vitae, up-to-date academic transcript, cover letter, and any other documents that you consider relevant, including any certificates that confirm your current level of English and any other languages.

Selection Process

The selection process comprises the following stages, with the number of candidates being reduced at the end of each one:

• Receipt of online applications - Until end January 2025.
• A video interview.
• A first competency-based interview with our HR department.
• Begin work placement - Group 1: June 2025 / Group 2: July and mid-August 2025.

Equal Opportunities

Under the same conditions of suitability preference will be given to candidates with disabilities of 33 per cent or higher.

At Clifford Chance we understand that our true asset is our people. Inclusion is good for our team and their families, our Firm and society.

We are committed to treating all employees and applicants fairly and equally regardless of their gender, gender identity and expression, marital or civil partnership status, race, colour, national or ethnic origin, social or economic background, disability, religious belief, sexual orientation, or age.  This applies to recruitment and selection, terms and conditions of employment including pay, promotion, training, transfer and every other aspect of employment.

Our goal is to deliver an equality of opportunity, an equality of aspiration and an equality of experience to everyone who works in our Firm. Find out more here.