Clyde & Co - Global virtual experience programme

At Clyde & Co, we recognise the challenges that students and graduates can face when trying to access a career in the legal profession. It is our aim to provide an opportunity to understand what a career in law would look like by providing a practical insight into the day to day life of a commercial lawyer.

YOUR POTENTIAL

To make this vision a reality, we have partnered with Forage to provide a globally accessible virtual experience programme that can help anyone, anywhere explore, develop, and attain a career in law.

This modular virtual experience will provide practical skills and confidence to all of the candidates that complete it. Through a series of simulated tasks designed directly by our global team of Clyde & Co lawyers, based on their own experiences in the firm.

OUR PROGRAMME WILL ALLOW YOU TO

• Experience a day in the life of Clyde & Co Trainee Solicitor
• Increase your industry knowledge and upskill by discovering our different practice areas.
• Add the work experience programme to your CV
• Access exclusive insights into the firm
• Stand out in your application

Why join this Virtual Experience Programme?

Clyde & Co is a growing firm (one of the fastest-growing in the world). We work at the heart of sectors that drive global trade and commerce acting for many of the world's major international contractors. 

From developed to emerging markets, we aim to support our clients by putting the power of our globally integrated firm at their disposal with a range of seamless and efficient services and the very best, commercially minded, legal advice.

This, together with our sector expertise and regional understanding, allows us to help clients identify and manage risk and liability, navigate challenges, harness commercial potential, and achieve sustained growth in today's complex and volatile business environment.

Our global projects & construction group is distinguished by its capabilities in both mature and emerging markets, specialism in all infrastructure classes, and unique strengths in both transactional and contentious disciplines.

In addition to this, you will also gain exposure to the work that our Cyber Insurance team completes, which involves market-leading end-to-end cyber solutions for clients.

Finally, you will have the opportunity to get an insight into the Pro Bono work Clyde & Co does for the public. As a major international law firm, we have a role to play in enabling communities around the world to secure fair access to legal advice and you will learn how this works in practice.

Each person plays a significant role in the growth and running of our Firm, with 2,500+ legal professionals and 4,000 total staff in over 50 offices in every global region, including Latin America, Africa, Europe, the U.S., Canada, the Middle East, Asia Pacific, and the UK. By undertaking this virtual experience, you will see firsthand how the role of a Trainee contributes to our Firm. 

What will you do in this Virtual Experience Programme?

1. Review comments on a Building Contract

• Analyse the contractor's comments on a building contract and be prepared to answer the associates' questions on the comments
• Practical skills you will gain from working on this module: Issue Spotting, Fact Analysis, Attention to Detail
  Compare your work with real model solutions created by the Clyde & Co team.

2. Draft a Deed of Variation

• Following the successful completion of the building contract, Global Real Property Ltd have asked the firm to vary a provision of the contract
• Practical skills you will gain from working on this module: Drafting, Attention to Detail, Fact Analysis
  Compare your work with real model solutions created by the Clyde & Co team.

3. Pursue a claim against a subcontractor for use of non-ACM combustible cladding

• Draft an email for a partner regarding your review of the facts of the matter and the applicable legislation and make a recommendation on the best course of action
• Practical skills you will gain from working on this module: Legal Analysis, Fact Analysis, Email Drafting
  Compare your work with real model solutions created by the Clyde & Co team.

4. Preparing for a presentation on Governing Law, Jurisdiction Clauses, and Enforcement

• Prepare a PowerPoint presentation on governing law clauses, jurisdiction clauses, enforcement and litigation versus arbitration, and be prepared to answer questions on these
• Practical skills you will gain from working on this module: Communication, Planning, Legal Research
  Compare your work with real model solutions created by the Clyde & Co team.

5. Assess the IP law implications of AI data processing

• Use the overview document and flowchart template to develop a process for assessing the IP and copyright law implications of using data from different data sources in an AI process
• Practical skills you will gain from working on this module: Critical Thinking, Legal Research, Fact Analysis
  Compare your work with real model solutions created by the Clyde & Co team.

6. Develop a Contractual Clause that helps fight Climate Change

• Inspired by the Chancery Lane Project’s Climate Hackathon, brainstorm ideas for a contractual clause that can help fight climate change and present the outline of your model clause by video
• Practical skills you will gain from working on this module: Communication, Commercial Awareness, Critical Thinking
  Compare your work with real model solutions created by the Clyde & Co team.

This programme is self-paced. It takes 6 - 6.5 hours to complete this Virtual Experience Programme