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Herbert Smith Freehills’ Digital Law Group Virtual Experience

This virtual experience offers insight into what it is like to work for HSF’s Digital Law Group – a group of specialist lawyers providing legal, strategic and practical advice to clients in relation to their biggest and most important digitalisation projects.

Opportunity details

Opportunity Type
Virtual Experience

Minimum requirements

Accepting International Applications
Yes
Qualifications Accepted
L
Law

Hiring criteria

Entry pathway

See details

Working rights

Australia

  • Australian Citizen
  • Australian Permanent Resident
  • Australian Student Visa
  • Australian Temporary Work Visa
  • Visa Sponsorship Included
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What is this?

Welcome to Herbert Smith Freehills’ Digital Law Group Virtual Experience

Our Digital Law Group comprises over 50 lawyers across the world, who investigate and develop new legal technologies and solve the big legal questions associated with global digital transformation.

 

Why should you do this?

Duration
This Virtual Experience Program is self-paced and should take only 3.5 to 6 hours to complete.

free
This Virtual Experience Program is free for all students.

Earn certificate
When you complete the Virtual Experience Program, you’ll earn a digital badge and certificate you can share on Linkedin and include on your resume.

Real work experience
Throughout the program, you’ll learn and develop deep insights into what it is actually like to work as a lawyer at Herbert Smith Freehills. Apply your law knowledge to a real-world problem & gain practical experience and knowledge to draw upon in interviews.

 

What skills will I gain?

 tick mark Sourcing and summarising recent articles on emerging ethical, governance and regulatory changes and challenges in the digital space.

 tick mark Preparing a memo on the ethical obligation of lawyers in the context of new and emerging technology.

 tick mark Conducting research on Smart Legal Contracts.

 tick mark Building a Smart Legal Contract

 tick mark Providing advice on a breach of a Smart Legal Contract

 

What you will do?

Module 1: Exploring the ethical implications of emerging technology (1 hour  - 2 hours)

Prepare the monthly update to our clients with links to relevant articles that explore the ethical implications of emerging technology

Module 2: Lawyers’ role as trusted advisors (30 minutes - 1 hour)

Prepare a memo to inform the content of a Partner's presentation on ‘the changing nature of lawyers in the current climate of increased reliance on technology and digital transformation’.

Module 3: What is a Smart Legal Contract? (30 minutes - 1 hour)

Conduct research on Smart Legal Contracts and use your new knowledge to answer a series of questions on the topic.

Module 4: Building the Smart Legal Contract (30 minutes - 1 hour)

Identify the underlying process, inputs, logic and output of a delay clause, then create a process map or pseudocode for the clause.

Module 5: Advising on a breach of a Smart Legal Contract (30 minutes - 1 hour)

Draft email advice outlining the key arguments for each party in a dispute relating to a Smart Legal Contract and note any outstanding questions you have.

 

Ready to get started?

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Hiring criteria

You should have or be completing the following to apply for this opportunity.

Entry pathway
Degree or Certificate
Study Field
L
Law

Work rights

The opportunity is available to applicants in any of the following categories.

country
eligibility

Australia

Australia

Australian Citizen

Australian Permanent Resident

Australian Student Visa

Australian Temporary Work Visa

Visa Sponsorship Included


Graduate Success Stories


  • Graduate stories
I was lucky to work on some really interesting tasks during my clerkship. This included doing some work for Natasha Blycha on the Australian National Blockchain project, and drafting research notes on various topics, such as the GDPR and ‘Right to be Forgotten’.

Tayla Byatt

  • Graduate stories
I was lucky to work on some really interesting tasks during my clerkship. This included doing some work for Natasha Blycha on the Australian National Blockchain project, and drafting research notes on various topics, such as the GDPR and ‘Right to be Forgotten’.

Tayla Byatt

  • Graduate stories
I was always amazed when I was able to use my knowledge from university to draft a memo which later went out to the client either in its original form or with only minor edits.

Sebastian Davies-Mills

  • Graduate stories
I was always amazed when I was able to use my knowledge from university to draft a memo which later went out to the client either in its original form or with only minor edits.

Sebastian Davies-Mills

  • Graduate stories
I was lucky to work on some really interesting tasks during my clerkship. This included doing some work for Natasha Blycha on the Australian National Blockchain project, and drafting research notes on various topics, such as the GDPR and ‘Right to be Forgotten’.

Tayla Byatt

  • Graduate stories
I was lucky to work on some really interesting tasks during my clerkship. This included doing some work for Natasha Blycha on the Australian National Blockchain project, and drafting research notes on various topics, such as the GDPR and ‘Right to be Forgotten’.

Tayla Byatt

  • Graduate stories
I was always amazed when I was able to use my knowledge from university to draft a memo which later went out to the client either in its original form or with only minor edits.

Sebastian Davies-Mills

  • Graduate stories
I was always amazed when I was able to use my knowledge from university to draft a memo which later went out to the client either in its original form or with only minor edits.

Sebastian Davies-Mills