Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer | Financial Services Regulation

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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 this 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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2026 London - Summer Vacation Scheme | UK

2026 London - Spring Vacation Scheme | UK

Skills you will learn and practice:

Document Drafting

Regulatory Strategy

Fact Summarization

Interview Skills

Internal Investigation

Feedback Delivery

Document Revision

Client Interaction

How it works

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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

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"It has helped me gain practical knowledge that I have been unable to acquire in my current job. I am eager to complete more programs and learn more about what Herbert Smith Freehills does and offers, so that I can fully equip myself to become a valuable asset to the firm in the future."-- Student from University of South Africa

"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

"A wonderful experience the programme has further stored my interest in the financial serivces regulatory law feild"-- Student from Bowen University

"This virtual internship program has given me a sight of what the work would be like after joining the HSF."-- Student from My institution is not listed

"I particularly enjoyed the realistic element of the hypothetical scenario as it really brought the legal field to life. I also found the fact that we are given examples of what constitutes adequate documentation at the end of each submission as this may appear particularly helpful in the future."-- Student from University of Bristol

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