Linklaters | Hong Kong Commercial Law

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

Stand out in your application to Linklaters. Show us you're a motivated candidate.

Get Career Ready

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

Stand out in your application to Linklaters. 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 Linklaters. Practice your skills with example tasks and build your confidence to ace your applications.

Self-paced5-6 hoursNo gradesNo assessmentsIntermediate

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.

Skills you will learn and practice:

Business Development

Client Presentation

PowerPoint

Email Communication

Project Management

Internal Communication

Dispute Resolution

Legal Research

Technology Skills

Contract Review

How it works

Introduction from Linklaters

Explore Our Job Sims

Tasks in this program

Task One: Business development

30-60 mins

Intermediate

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.

What you'll learn

How to prepare a presentation to respond to a Request for Proposal (RfP) from a potential client.
How to highlight the firm's experience, key partners, and diversity initiatives.

What you'll do

Create three PowerPoint slides: one showcasing Linklaters' experience, one with key partners, and one about diversity and inclusion initiatives.

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"A good programme, greater diversity of tasks could be more beneficial, futher to just drafting emails and voicemail."-- Student from University of Durham

"I feel that a little more guidance could have been provided, not in terms of the resources provided, but rather in terms of the instructions given."-- Student from University of Hong Kong

"Forth-coming and very insightful as well as thoughtful internship. The section I liked most was the one related to AI."-- Student from University of Leicester

"I enjoyed completing this programme as the tasks were both challenging and interesting to complete and provided insight into what work trainees actually do. I feel in some tasks a bit more guidance on how to set up the tasks and help with understanding the law would have been helpful."-- Student

"The Virtual Internship Experience Programme was amazing. Very well organised and structured and accompanied by a wealth of resources specifically tailored to developing basic trainee skills. I especially liked that for some tasks further information outside the transaction was provided for context and completeness. If I were to add anything, it wou..."-- Student from University of Durham

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