Sydney Summer Clerkship

About the Clerkship Program

During the clerkship program, you will work as part of an inclusive and collaborative team. Your supervising partner, development coach and buddy will share their knowledge and support you through the early stages of your career. 

You will hear from leaders and industry experts during structured learning and development sessions to help you grow personally and professionally.

Our program will allow you will be exposed to a variety of work that will help shape your future.

We select most of our graduates from our clerkship program, so it is the first step in your career at King & Wood Mallesons.

What you'll learn:

We have designed a program to help you make the most of your time with us. During your clerkship, you'll learn:

• The day-to-day skills to get you started – taking instructions, meeting with clients, drafting memos and documents, managing your practice and professional relationships.
• The core practice teams at KWM – who they are, what they do, how they’re structured, the clients they work for, and of course, your role within them.
• Our culture – working within your team, you’ll be exposed to (and encouraged) to get actively involved in the many activities and events that help create our unique culture.
• Our people – you’ll find that people from every part of the business will help you by sharing their knowledge and supporting you through the early stages of your career and beyond.

You will also participate in a clerkship innovation course which will provide you with fundamental learning on the LegalTech KWM uses.

It’s a hands-on role so you won’t just be watching from the sidelines!

Eligibility:

Clerkship applications are open to penultimate or final year law students. To be eligible to apply for our clerkship program, you must be an Australian citizen, or permanent resident or hold, or be able to obtain, all other approvals necessary for you to work for the firm in Australia for the clerkship and the graduate program. By submitting an application, you confirm that you meet, or are reasonably able to meet, the eligibility requirements.

We do accept and welcome applications for the King & Wood Mallesons clerkship program from international students in their penultimate or final year of their Australian or New Zealand law degree, provided that you have unrestricted legal rights to work in Australia when you commence your clerkship and you are able to apply for a visa to continue to work unrestricted in Australia upon graduation. Graduates are responsible for independently obtaining the correct visa.

Academic Transcripts:

We understand some universities will not release academics for Semester 1 2024 until close to the application deadline. For those students, we ask that you hold off submitting your application until you receive your academics (and before the application deadline), if possible. Please note you can still commence your application and save and continue later. If your university will not be releasing academic results until after applications have closed, please submit your application with your most up-to-date academics that you have at the time. If you are invited to a first interview, please bring a hard copy of your latest official transcript for us to sight. Please note there is no need to email through your transcript after the closing date for applications.

 For any questions in relation to the application or recruitment process please contact Greta Treloar and Sara Morrison at [email protected] and [email protected].