We are looking for junior and senior trainees for the summer of 2024. These four-month trainee periods start on 6 May 2024.
5.11.2023
Law student, apply now for the most popular traineeships of the summer. Join us at Castrén & Snellman for the summer of your life!
Castrén & Snellman is a law firm of over 300 people. We are a forerunner of sustainability in the legal services industry, enabling our clients to build sustainable success stories. We are driven by the spark to provide the best legal service in Finland and to be the best workplace in the legal sector. Our hope is that our trainees share our values – the Spark, Respect, Courage and Responsibility – and contribute to our excellent team spirit.
We offer full-time summer trainee positions for students at different stages in their studies. All of our trainee programmes are paid. Each year, over a hundred students join us to gain experience of business law and the daily routines of a law firm by participating in client work as well as the development of our firm.
For more information on our trainee programmes and working with us, please visit our Careers page and social media channels. You can also find answers to frequently asked questions about trainee programmes in our FAQ.
Take a look at the daily work of our trainees in our Instagram stories.
You can see our trainees at work on Instagram by following our my week series. You will also have the opportunity to ask our trainees about their experience.
• Junior trainees: 8 November.
• Senior trainees: 15 November.
Apply for a summer trainee position by 20 November and come join us in building sustainable success stories!
Our business is to enable our clients’ success and ensure their legal protection. We are the forerunners of demanding legal services, such as mergers and acquisitions, dispute resolution and all other areas of business law.
Castrén & Snellman is an international law firm seeing growth in the Nordics. What makes us stand out is our straight-forward way of working, our true collaboration across teams and our long tradition of exceeding expectations. When clients face challenging situations, we offer our internationally recognised competence, clear thinking and solution-oriented experts.
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