Diageo Legal Internship, Flex Legal
Salary: £582 per week
Office located in Great Marlborough St, London
Legal profession staffing agency
Be an early applicant
Legal profession staffing agency
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
Salary: £582 per week
Office located in Great Marlborough St, London
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make the legal industry more human and agile.
Role
Who you are
- Interested in learning more about and/or pursuing an in-house legal career - please use your cover letter as an opportunity to highlight your career goals
- A penultimate, final year university Law student who is on track to obtain a 2.1
- A socially mobile candidate – the internship is designed to bring socially mobile and diverse aspiring solicitors into the legal profession. As part of your application, you will be asked to provide more details of your background and upbringing, particularly related to your education and social background
- Someone who is currently not in full-time legal employment or who has already secured a training contract
- Available and eligible to work full-time from the 2nd - 13th June 2025
What the job involves
- The two-week paid internship will provide an insight into a career as an in-house lawyer, with training sessions from and work shadowing with Diageo’s lawyers
- Diageo’s Legal team work on a diverse range of legal and regulatory matters relating to Diageo’s portfolio of over 200 of the world’s premium drinks brands, sold in more than 180 countries
- With support from Flex Legal, the Diageo Legal team will provide insight into how its in-house Legal team enables and accelerates Diageo’s business performance whilst also protecting its reputation
- The internship will give students the opportunity to learn more about a variety of issues including commercial law, employment law, digital, data and intellectual property, alongside soft skills training that will help them develop the skills needed to flourish in their future legal careers
Application process
- Fixed dates: 2nd - 13th June 2025
- To apply, submit a CV (no more than 2 pages) and a cover letter (no more than 400 words)
- We’re particularly interested in candidates who have not been able to secure any legal work experience or training and will not consider candidates in full time legal employment or anyone who has already secured a training contract
- Applications will remain open until 23
- 59pm on Sunday 16 March 2025
- We review applications as they come in, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible rather than waiting until the deadline
- Complete an online assessment via our 3rd party testing provider, Test Gorilla
- Complete a short Zoom interview with a member of the Flex Trainee team (dates TBC). Timelines will be tight, so we appreciate your flexibility
- If shortlisted from there, candidates will meet with the legal team at Diageo for a short Zoom interview in late April
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Law firms often experience periods of increased demand, especially around project work, but don't have the time or expertise to easily source skilled legal professionals. Flex Legal was founded in 2017 with the goal of easing these staffing problems, giving law firms access to a flexible pool of qualified and vetted lawyers and paralegals.
Flex's main competition are the traditional recruitment agencies who have supplied temporary workers in this sector, but lacking the links to the legal profession they are unable to source the best talent or accurately assess their suitability for roles. Compared to other legal agencies Flex is a step ahead in its matching systems and interface, for instance offering video profiles and automated timesheets and invoicing systems which are not typical in the sector.
As the legal profession continues to modernise, having access to the top new talent will be increasingly important. Flex's contribution is to implement tools like the training journal app, which is the UK's first digital Qualifying Work Experience record. This will bolster Flex's pool of qualified legal talent while supporting students and employees through the qualification process, a win-win for the company and the industry. In 2024, an acquisition by vision-aligned London-based international law firm Mishcon de Raya will see Flex maintain autonomy and benefit from new capital.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Company benefits
- Private healthcare (following successful completion of 3 month probationary period)
- 25 days annual leave, plus Bank Holidays
- Hybrid working, with vibrant office based just off Bermondsey Street in London
- Cycle to work scheme
- Enhanced parental leave pay
- Generous nursery benefit (subject to scheme’s eligibility criteria)
- £200 annual development budget for personal/professional development
- £200 allowance towards home office equipment
- Employee Assistance Programme
Company HQ
Bermondsey, London, UK
Leadership
Mary Bonsor
(Co-Founder)Is also a Governor at Keyworth Primary School. Was previously a Solicitor at Winckworth Sherwood LLP.
James Moore
(Co-Founder)Is a board member for SysKit, Gearset and 3T Software Labs. Prior to co-founding Flex Legal was CTO of Redgate Software.
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