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[andrecsaa]

Hi @WillkieGemma and @Andrei Radu

@Andrei Radu, could you share a little bit about the work you did in the litigation team during the vacation scheme (if you spend time in this team)?

@WillkieGemma aside from the competition litigation team, do trainees take part in all kind of litigation or are allocated focused in a single practice, like white-collar crime, enforcement, compliance and investigations, civil fraud and asset recovery, employment disputes? Or do trainees usually work more on a sector-focused like financial disputes or commercial disputes?

Also, if there is an opportunity to focus on single practices, does the London office offers seats in private funds, and compliance, investigations and enforcement?

Thank you!

 

[WillkieGemma]

Hi @WillkieGemma and @Andrei Radu

@Andrei Radu, could you share a little bit about the work you did in the litigation team during the vacation scheme (if you spend time in this team)?

@WillkieGemma aside from the competition litigation team, do trainees take part in all kind of litigation or are allocated focused in a single practice, like white-collar crime, enforcement, compliance and investigations, civil fraud and asset recovery, employment disputes? Or do trainees usually work more on a sector-focused like financial disputes or commercial disputes?

Also, if there is an opportunity to focus on single practices, does the London office offers seats in private funds, and compliance, investigations and enforcement?

Thank you!

Hi @andrecsaa - we have a competition litigation team and a litigation team, which are independent of each other. The work of each team can be found in the brochure here: https://www.willkie.com/-/media/files/careers/grad-rec-brochure-2024.pdf As with associates, trainees do not specialise in one area during a seat, they will receive a broad range of work within each practice group. We do not have any employment law capacity in London however.

thanks
Gemma

 

[andrecsaa]

Hi @andrecsaa - we have a competition litigation team and a litigation team, which are independent of each other. The work of each team can be found in the brochure here: https://www.willkie.com/-/media/files/careers/grad-rec-brochure-2024.pdf As with associates, trainees do not specialise in one area during a seat, they will receive a broad range of work within each practice group. We do not have any employment law capacity in London however.

thanks
Gemma

Thank you Gemma. The explanation and the brochure were very interesting and informative.

 

[Andrei Radu]

Hi @WillkieGemma and @Andrei Radu

@Andrei Radu, could you share a little bit about the work you did in the litigation team during the vacation scheme (if you spend time in this team)?

@WillkieGemma aside from the competition litigation team, do trainees take part in all kind of litigation or are allocated focused in a single practice, like white-collar crime, enforcement, compliance and investigations, civil fraud and asset recovery, employment disputes? Or do trainees usually work more on a sector-focused like financial disputes or commercial disputes?

Also, if there is an opportunity to focus on single practices, does the London office offers seats in private funds, and compliance, investigations and enforcement?

Thank you!

Hi @andrecsaa I spent a week in PE and the a week in the competition litigation team. A significant portion of my work involved research tasks, as I would look up relevant past caselaw, regulatory decisions, and articles on some procedural and substantive elements of disputes the firm was working on. My supervisor and other team members would always brief me on the larger context of the facts and the proceedings, which meant that I learnt a lot and made some of the more admin-heavy tasks a lot more interesting (as I understood the specific role my work was playing in the broader dispute). At the end of a research task I would normally get to draft a short memo on my findings, which definitely felt quite rewarding and enjoyable. I also got to attend meetings between associates and partners who were discussing submissions and elements of case theory, which was a fascinating experience, as sometimes they would spend a long time going back and forth in poking holes and defending their arguments.

 

[andrecsaa]

Hi @andrecsaa I spent a week in PE and the a week in the competition litigation team. A significant portion of my work involved research tasks, as I would look up relevant past caselaw, regulatory decisions, and articles on some procedural and substantive elements of disputes the firm was working on. My supervisor and other team members would always brief me on the larger context of the facts and the proceedings, which meant that I learnt a lot and made some of the more admin-heavy tasks a lot more interesting (as I understood the specific role my work was playing in the broader dispute). At the end of a research task I would normally get to draft a short memo on my findings, which definitely felt quite rewarding and enjoyable. I also got to attend meetings between associates and partners who were discussing submissions and elements of case theory, which was a fascinating experience, as sometimes they would spend a long time going back and forth in poking holes and defending their arguments.

It was really interesting and gave me some light on the actual chance of learning from the tasks and structure of the VS at Willkie, especially the meetings where the associates and partners got you involved in the cases.

Thank you so much @Andrei Radu!