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Work with our team covering the lifecycle of a deal.

In our rapidly changing world, our clients, and our own people, expect us to keep evolving to stay a step ahead. So we’re innovative and entrepreneurial, and it’s this mindset that has led us to set legal precedents. We seek out ways to do things differently, and we embrace new ideas, tools and technology.

With this mindset, we are proud to share an insight on what it’s like to work at Linklaters through the Linklaters Virtual Job Simulation – the first of its kind among law firms in Hong Kong SAR.

In this programme, you will get to sample the cutting-edge work our trainees and lawyers do every day. You will get to build legal skills and better understand what a career at Linklaters in Hong Kong SAR offers.

Our programme is open to everyone, from a law or non-law background. The tasks we have created move through the lifecycle of a deal. We therefore recommend completing each task in order from 1 to 7.

Throughout the programme, you will have an opportunity to self-reflect and compare your work with real model solutions created by the Linklaters team. If you enjoy the programme, we hope you will go on to explore the opportunities we offer including our Summer Vacation Scheme and Training Contracts. You can find out more about these opportunities here.
 

Great change is here, and we can help you to make sure you’re ready.

 

This program is self-paced. It takes approximately 5-6 hours to complete.

Skills Learned:

  • Business development
    Help our team pitch to a potential client as it looks to engage a legal adviser for a complex fintech acquisition. Aim to spend approx. 1.5 hours on this task.

    • Business development
    • Client pitching
    • Powerpoint
  • Project management
    Help brief the wider Linklaters team on the transaction and the due diligence process. Aim to spend approx. 45 minutes on this task.

    • Email drafting
    • Project management
    • Internal communication
  • Communicating with colleagues
    Analyse the suitability of various dispute resolution regimes and communicate your findings to your team for the purposes of drafting a dispute resolution clause in a sale and purchase agreement. Aim to spend approx. 1 hour on this task.

    • Dispute resolution
    • Legal research
    • Internal communication
  • Using artificial intelligence in law
    Leverage AI to help expedite (and improve the quality of) our legal advice during the due diligence process. Aim to spend approx. 45 minutes on this task.

    • Technology
    • Contract review
    • Due diligence
  • Legal research
    Prepare a summary of relevant competition law issues in relation to the transaction. Aim to spend approx. 1.5 hours on this task.

    • Legal research
    • Competition law
    • Commercial advice
  • Resource and business management
    Liaise with our client to update them on the fee progress of the matter. Aim to spend approx. 30 minutes on this task.

    • Financial management
    • Project management
    • External communication
  • Communicating with clients
    Prepare advice for the client in relation to the post-completion steps. Aim to spend approx. 1 hour on this task.

    • Legal research
    • Project management
    • External communication
  • Finish Line

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  1. Keyword Search: Search for the title of the job you’re looking to pursue, or skills you may have that could be relevant for a particular career path.
  2. Narrow Down by Industry + Occupation: If you have a general sense of the industry you’d like to pursue, you can narrow down the occupations within a given industry to help you decide.
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