Our opportunities

The Making Links Asia University Programme is designed specifically to help talented students from underrepresented groups succeed in their early careers by supporting them on the development of technical and professional skills whilst building strong commercial fluency and a global outlook.

Successful candidates will receive financial support, 1-1 coaching, work experience and sessions on commercial awareness and personal development.

We are particularly keen to hear from you if you identify as coming from a low-income or a racial or ethnic minority background.

If you are from Abu Dhabi or Dubai, you can click here to find out more and apply.

This is a unique opportunity to train and qualify as a lawyer in England and Wales before starting a commercial law career in the Middle East.
   
You'll start working on live client cases during four six-month seats. These take place in London as well as in the Middle East. You'll build skills and experience in practice areas, and, with ongoing training and support, develop the professional skills you need. Once qualified, you'll then start your career as an Associate in the Middle East.
 
We are looking for penultimate and final-year Law undergraduates, graduates and postgraduates (studying an LLM or GDL at a UK university) who are fluent in Arabic.

The Middle East Virtual Insight Programme is a week long summer programme that provides opportunities for you to build upon your knowledge of Linklaters, improve on your commercial understanding and gain a real insight into the work and life at Linklaters in the Middle East.

It’s intended to put you in the best possible position to secure a place on our Vacation Schemes or our Middle East-London Training Contract.

Throughout your time with us, you will have access to experienced lawyers and trainees as well as our HR team who will be available to support you, answer your questions and offer you advice and feedback.

You will have the opportunity to attend various live virtual sessions, presentations and workshops throughout the week including practice overviews, Q&A panels, skills workshops and more.

We value ongoing development and support, so after the week we will keep in contact with you and you'll get exclusive access to various helpful resources.

Please contact Sunish Soman and Daniel Agard to apply.

We are open to receive applications for our Co-op trainee internship programme based in our Riyadh office.

Recruitment of co-op trainees will take place at various periods throughout the year, dependent on your university requirements.

Over the course of your time with us, you'll get paid a competitive salary, be involved in real deals and sit with a Principal where you'll learn about our culture, work and strategy both within the Middle East and globally.

You'll get to spend time with Trainees, Associates and the Recruitment team to ask questions and find out more about life at Linklaters.

Please contact Daniel Agard and Mohammed Alfaraj to find out more about this programme and details on how to apply.

This programme offers a taste of life in commercial law at a global firm within the Middle East.

Over the course of a week, you'll sit with a Trainee or Junior Associate in either our Dubai or Abu Dhabi office and gain an insight into our culture, work and strategy.

You’ll also be able to attend workshops to develop your skills such as commercial understanding and application workshops.

You'll get to spend time with Trainees, Associates and the HR team to ask questions and find out more about life at Linklaters.

There will also be plenty of opportunities to network and meet your colleagues throughout the programme.

We value ongoing development and support, so after the programme, we will keep in contact with you and you'll get exclusive access to resources and anumber of sessions.

Please contact Sunish Soman and Daniel Agard to apply.