Clerkship Program (Apr 2025)

The role

Our Brisbane Clerkship Program is a 4 week program designed for penultimate year students who are looking to be immersed in the legal profession and begin building invaluable networks, relationships and skills that will last throughout your career.

During your Clerkship, you will have the opportunity to rotate in two of our diverse practice areas including Corporate & Commercial, Funds & Financial Services, Litigation, Real Estate, Planning & Environment and Private Clients. In each of your rotations, you will be allocated a supervising partner, coach and buddy, enabling you to work in a supportive and collaborative environment which will allow you to develop your legal skills. You'll get the chance to work on real matters and gain practical experience in a range of legal areas, including attending court hearings, attending meetings with clients, completing research tasks and working on complex legal transactions.

Upon completion of the Clerkship Program, you may be offered the opportunity to continue your Hamilton Locke journey as a Graduate.

The Firm 

Hamilton Locke is an exciting, rapidly growing law firm specialising in solving complex client problems and working with clients and advisers to build long-term relationships and value. 

We are culture-led and have a genuinely unique strategy, putting the personal and professional development of our people at the centre of everything we do. With a clean sheet of paper, we have aligned structure and systems around our strategy. With an outsourced back-office, we provide the team with a collaborative environment and modern and integrated technology, allowing our people to focus on client needs with less of the bureaucracy. 

Clerkship Program Key Dates:

Autumn Intake: 7 April 2025 – 2 May 2025

Winter Intake: 23 June 2025 – 18 July 2025

How to Apply? 

If you are interested in this role, please click the ‘Apply’ button and include your CV, Transcript, and responses to the below Application Questions.  

Applications close: Friday, 9 August 2024.

Interviews for our Clerkship Programs will take place in August and September 2024.

Offers made: Wednesday, 9 October 2024.

Offers accepted by: Thursday, 10 October 2024.

For more information on Hamilton Locke, please visit our website or follow us on LinkedIn. 

Application Questions 

1. Why are you interested in a clerkship opportunity at Hamilton Locke?
2. At Hamilton Locke our culture and way of operating is guided by our core HALO Values of High Performance, Agility, Leadership and Openness. Of these 4 values which do you relate to the most and why?
3. What was your favourite Law subject and why? And what aspects of this area of law do you believe are outdated and need to be modernised?

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