NQ Salary
~£173,077
TC Salary
£60,000 / £65,000 (year 1 / year 2)
Annual Intake
c.30 per year (London), via vacation scheme only
Seats
4 seats
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Latham & Watkins is one of the world's largest and highest-grossing firms, and its London office alone runs to nearly 500 lawyers. Chambers UK singles out its banking and finance work in particular, with further strength in restructuring, capital markets, private equity and environment and climate change. The London office pairs that transactional firepower with a modified lock-step pay model that Latham lawyers credit with dialling down the internal competition common at US peers.
Culture & Values
Latham recruits about 30 trainees a year in London, entirely through its vacation schemes, and kept 29 of its 34 qualifiers in 2025. Trainees complete four six-month seats, two of them in corporate and finance, with the option of a client or international secondment in the third or fourth seat.
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Method
“Two online assessment stages. Stage 1: a simulated pro bono case based on a real-life matter, plus a short motivational assessment with preference-type behavioural questions. Stage 2: a critical reasoning assessment in a workplace setting, plus two short video interviews. Then assessment day with written task and case study presentation. Recruits exclusively via vacation scheme.”
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