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Speculative application – Interns
Have you ever wondered what it is like to be a lawyer in a leading global business law firm? Do you have an outstanding academic record and are you passionate about a career in business law? Every year during our Summer Internship Programme in Warsaw, DLA Piper welcomes law students to work with us and our clients. It is an opportunity for you to discover first-hand what makes DLA Piper a different type of law firm.
Candidates are attracted to DLA Piper for many reasons, including our international presence, good working atmosphere, award-winning reputation, and our track record of exceptional growth. More than that, we believe in engaging with society and creating exceptional experiences and outcomes. At DLA Piper, we hire to develop, reward and retain.
We are always interested in hearing from individuals with high potential for our core practice groups:
Although we are not currently recruiting for the above positions, if you identify with our values and would like to build a long, fruitful and rewarding career with one of the world’s leading law firms, we’d love to hear from you. We are not currently recruiting for the Summer Internship Programme – the process will begin in March/April 2024.
As a first step, we would ask that you send us your CV. We look forward to hearing from you.
ABOUT US
DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers and business service professionals located in more than 40 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. Our global reach ensures that we can help businesses with their legal needs anywhere in the world. We strive to be the leading global business law firm by delivering quality, service excellence and value to our clients and offering practical and innovative legal solutions to help them succeed. Our clients range from multinational, Global 1000, and Fortune 500 enterprises to emerging companies developing industry-leading technologies, as well as government and public sector bodies.
OUR VALUES
In everything we do connected with our People, our Clients and our Communities, we live by these values:
DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
At DLA Piper, diversity and inclusion underpins how we live our values and everything we do. We believe that everyone has a voice, and that everyone’s voice counts. We know that the rich diversity across our firm makes us stronger, more innovative and creative, which helps us to better serve our clients and communities. We are committed to providing an inclusive working environment and culture across our global firm, where everyone can bring their authentic self to work.
Diversity of perspective, thought, background and culture combine to make us the leading global law firm; that’s why we actively seek to build balanced teams. We welcome the unique contribution that you will bring to our firm and actively encourage applications from all talented people – however your talent is packaged, whatever your background or circumstance and regardless of how you identify.
HYBRID WORKING
We recognise that people have responsibilities and interests outside of their career and that as a business, we all benefit from working flexibly. That’s why we are open to discussing with candidates the different ways in which we are able to support requests for agile working arrangements.
PRE-ENGAGEMENT SCREENING
In the event that we make an offer to you, and where local legislation permits and where relevant, we will conduct pre-engagement screening checks that may include but are not limited to your professional and academic qualifications, your eligibility to work in the relevant jurisdiction, any criminal records, your financial stability and work-related references.