Deadlines for vac schemes in 2025/6
Many firms will have multiple deadlines, running schemes at different times of year: you shouldn't gain an advantage from doing any one particular scheme with a single firm, but some may have different characteristics to others. Some firms look at applications on a rolling basis, so you should apply as soon as possible after applications open.
While we endeavour to keep our information as up to date as possible, deadlines do occasionally change at the last minute, so please check firms' websites to be absolutely certain of deadline dates.
Some (smaller and mid-size) firms don't have a formal vac scheme, but do offer informal work experience (often to both university students and sixth-formers). The application process for this kind of work experience is usually informal and happens on a rolling basis. Information can usually be found on a firm's website, but if you can't find out if a firm offers work experience it's worth phoning or emailing them. Firms which adopt this approach include Hodge Jones & Allen and Leigh Day.
September 2025
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12 |
Ashurst (Winter) |
|
12 |
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (Spring) |
|
12 |
Sidley Austin (Winter) |
|
28 |
Norton Rose Fulbright (Winter) |
October 2025
|
10 |
Hogan Lovells (Winter) |
|
10 |
Penningtons Manches Cooper (Winter) |
|
17 |
Dechert (Winter) |
|
24 |
|
|
26 |
White & Case (Winter) |
|
27 |
Burges Salmon (Winter) |
|
31 |
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton (Winter) |
|
31 |
Taylor Wessing (Spring) |
November 2025
|
23 |
Dentons (London) |
|
28 |
|
| 28 |
Taylor Wessing (Summer) |
|
30 |
December 2025
|
1 |
Baker McKenzie (Spring) |
|
1 |
|
|
3 |
Linklaters |
|
4 |
|
|
5 |
Macfarlanes |
|
5 |
|
|
5 |
|
|
7 |
Dentons (Milton Keynes) |
|
7 |
Latham & Watkins |
|
7 |
Norton Rose Fulbright |
|
10 |
|
|
12 |
Ashurst (Summer) |
|
12 |
Goodwin |
|
12 |
Hogan Lovells |
|
14 |
|
|
14 |
Weil, Gotshal & Manges |
|
16 |
|
|
31 |
Dechert (Spring and Summer) |
January 2026
|
1 |
Baker McKenzie (Summer) |
|
1 |
Cooley |
|
1 |
Mills & Reeve |
|
2 |
Farrer & Co |
|
4 |
Akin |
|
4 |
Paul Hastings |
|
5 |
Birketts |
|
5 |
Burges Salmon (Spring and Summer) |
|
5 |
Clyde & Co |
|
5 |
Forsters |
|
5 |
Morrison Foerster |
|
5 |
Squire Patton Boggs |
|
5 |
Trowers & Hamlins |
|
6 |
Addleshaw Goddard |
|
6 |
Reed Smith |
|
6 |
Watson Farley & Williams |
|
8 |
HFW |
|
9 |
Sidley Austin (Spring and Summer) |
|
9 |
Penningtons Manches Cooper (Summer) |
|
11 |
Gateley |
|
11 |
Vinson & Elkins |
|
12 |
RPC |
|
12 |
Wedlake Bell |
|
12 |
Withers |
|
14 |
Travers Smith |
|
14 |
VWV |
|
15 |
Charles Russell Speechlys |
|
15 |
Osborne Clarke |
|
16 |
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (Summer) |
|
16 |
Covington & Burling |
|
16 |
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher |
|
16 |
Hill Dickinson |
|
21 |
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius |
|
30 |
Northridge Law |
|
30 |
Stephenson Harwood |
|
31 |
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton (Spring and Summer) |
|
31 |
K&L Gates |
|
31 |
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe |
|
31 |
Ropes & Gray |
|
31 |
Stevens & Bolton |
|
31 |
Ward Hadaway |
|
31 |
Wilkin Chapman Rollits |
February 2026
|
6 |
|
|
9 |
|
|
15 |
|
|
17 |
|
|
28 |
Devonshires |
March 2026
|
31 |
|
|
31 |
|
|
31 |
Find out what to expect from vac schemes in our feature: What is a vacation scheme?