Financial Services Regulation

Advise a client on a technical problem with our financial regulatory team

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Complete work that simulates life on the job. 5-6 hours and self-paced.

Stand out in your application to Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer. Show us you're a motivated candidate.

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Get Career Ready

Complete work that simulates life on the job. 5-6 hours and self-paced.

Stand out in your application to Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer. Show us you're a motivated candidate.

Why complete our Job Simulation

A risk-free way to experience work on the job with us at Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer. Practice your skills with example tasks and build your confidence to ace your applications.

Self-paced5-6 hoursNo gradesNo assessmentsall-levels

At Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer, we embrace a problem-solving attitude – for our clients and ourselves – and from innovation and a globally coordinated approach, deliver top tier insights and solutions. This means we celebrate thinkers who have a firm grasp of the past and present, but with an eye to the future.

Our Financial Services Regulatory Team implements this vision: we're a global team of experts within Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer who are dedicated to solving complex legal problems for our clients in the financial regulatory space around the world. We're lawyers but we're also problem solvers, researchers, writers, and philosophers. We value diversity of thought and acquire cutting edge skills and bring new ideas to maturity so that our clients can receive advice from the vanguard.

The Financial Services Regulatory Job Simulation gives you the opportunity to work on some of the technical problems that we tackle on a daily basis. You will learn about financial regulatory issues across various jurisdictions, what you need to do to notify regulators, how to prepare your client in the face of regulatory intervention, and how lawyers and clients work together to commercially approach the market when financial regulatory issues arise.

The tasks in these modules are challenging and that reflects the nature of the work that we do in the Financial Services Regulatory Group. In real life, you would have the opportunity to discuss the issues with your supervisor and other colleagues so you would not be tackling the tasks alone.

We also appreciate that you will have different levels of experience and knowledge and that some of you will not have studied law – that is not a problem; all of the tasks (whether involving legal issues or not) can be tackled by applying general analysis and critical thinking skills. We have included some brief notes on some of the key legal concepts that do come up in the tasks or model answers.

If this sounds interesting to you, then participate in our Job Simulation: we would love to hear from you.

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Skills you will learn and practice:

Drafting

Regulatory Priorities

Summarising facts

Interview Experience

Internal Investigation Processes

Providing Feedback

Revising Documents

Interacting with Clients

How it works

Complete tasks guided by pre-recorded videos and example answers from our team at Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer. No live sessions, all self-paced.

Earn a certificate and add it to your resume and LinkedIn as an extra curricular activity.

Stand out in applications. Confidently answer interview questions and explain why you’re a good fit for our team.

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Tasks in this program

Task One: Notifying relevant regulators

30-60 mins

Introductory

Prepare a notification for the relevant regulators informing them of the facts, that an internal investigation will be undertaken, and that they will be kept up to date

What you'll learn

How to put together a globally coordinated communications plan
Communication best practices on urgent issues

What you'll do

Review code of conduct for each relevant global jurisdiction
Prepare a draft notification for regulators

Reviews

Over 500

5 Star Reviews

"This program gave a picture of how things work in the real world and shows not only about the need for hard skills but also for soft skills, which is really appreciable."-- Student from Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University

"The Program gave us students of law an inside into the matters HSF handles on a day-to-day basis. It has helped me in bettering my legal drafting skills. The key takeaway for me was the importance of attention to detail with every assignment. One is bound to receive favorable outcomes with clear and coherent legal drafts. All in all, a unique and i..."-- Student from Jindal Global Law School

"The programme was immensely useful. I not only learned a range of practical skills, but also recieved a valuable insight into life at HSF as a whole."-- Student from University of Durham

"Thank you so much for the opportunity to get a taste of working at HSF Financial Services Regulation. I enjoyed it so much and learned many new skills."-- Student from University of Cambridge

"The tasks were interesting and varied. There was sufficient instruction. The tasks took as long as described."-- Student from The University of Law

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