NQ Salary
£170,000
TC Salary
£60,000 / £65,000 (year 1 / year 2)
Annual Intake
5 per year (London)
Seats
6 seats
This profile is compiled from publicly available sources and may not reflect the latest changes. Always check Orrick's official careers page for current deadlines, application processes, and programme details.
Orrick is a San Francisco firm best known for its technology and venture capital practice, with further strength in energy, infrastructure and finance. The London office sits near St Paul's on Cheapside and recruits one of the smallest trainee cohorts in the City.
Culture & Values
Around five trainees join each year into a six-seat training contract, a structure that shows more practice areas than the standard four rotations. Legal Cheek's survey shows a 09:11 average start, a 20:16 average finish and a 1,800-hour annual target, with 25 days of leave.
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Method
“Application form (cover letter + commercial awareness questions), then candidates are reported to be shortlisted on a Watson Glaser score to reach the assessment day, though the firm's own page describes no test stage: a written exercise based on a hypothetical legal scenario plus a group exercise. Every vacation scheme student is interviewed for a TC during the scheme.”
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