Working at Herbert Smith offers you excellent financial benefits, but it also provides many opportunities to have a rich and fulfilling career.

We aim to recruit some of the finest minds, helping them realise their potential to become talented lawyers and enjoy rewarding careers. As a future joiner you can enjoy a range of benefits such as discretionary grants to spend on areas that might enhance your professional development, and we'll pay your GDL and LPC/PCLL course fees and provide maintenance grants.

Trainees are also offered a highly competitive salary package, starting at £37,500, and rising to £42,500 in their second year. Other benefits include interest-free start-up loans, as well as time off for pro bono or community activities. However, as an ambitious professional your real reward is what life as a lawyer at Herbert Smith delivers to you:  an on-going programme of training and development, exciting alternatives to traditional career paths and the opportunity to expand your experience through international secondments and travel.