THE OPPORTUNITY
We are offering 6 month Internships across the following Practice Groups :
You will have the opportunity to interact with other DLA Piper offices and experience our "One Team, No Borders" way of working, to improve and test your technical legal skills internationally.
We strive to give the opportunity to our interns to feel and understand the Lawyers' world to be prepared for their professional challenges of tomorrow.
This internship role is for a fixed term. It is not a Bar traineeship role.
DLA Piper Luxembourg
DLA Piper Luxembourg is a multi-lingual, culturally sensitive, young, dynamic and growing team. We benefit from the advantages of a global law firm, with the advantages of a human-sized firm.
Our Team has a wealth of expertise on investment funds, corporate, M&A, banking, finance, capital markets, tax, and intellectual property and technology, applying sound commercial judgment to client's legal and final decisions.
We advise international clients on cross border deals with the benefits of the Luxembourg broad range, business oriented legal and tax toolkit.
Interns at DLA Piper are fully involved in all the teams activities including pro bono and knowledge.
MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
We pride ourselves on having a collegiate environment and we are looking for Interns with a strong leadership potential, who are passionate about our culture, values and ethos of the firm.
We are keen to hear from Interns with the following experience :
ABOUT YOU
The Departments / Practice Groups
Our Interns have the opportunity to support on a variety of tasks within their chosen Practice Group, including :
Intellectual Property and Technology
DLA Piper is one of the most widely recognized providers of a full range of commercial, intellectual property law, privacy, sourcing and technology law services for leading businesses worldwide.
Intellectual property and technology law is at the core of any major business transaction or strategic dispute and has become one of the most critical legal areas as companies continue to expand and protect their technologies, brands, products, data and services around the globe
Our team works on high profile and complex mandates for both major users and suppliers of technology related services, as well as more general commercial work and large scale data protection and privacy matters.
Clients range from larger retail and investment banks, airlines, retail groups, telcos, FTSE 100 companies and IT / outsourcing service providers.
The workload is varied and includes contentious and non-contentious advice on intellectual property, data protection (including GDPR implementation), large scale outsourcing projects, cloud and digital transformation and services contracts.
The successful Intern would ideally be involved in a broad spread of work, including major outsourcing projects, cloud services arrangements, commercial projects, data privacy and security advice and projects, and various IT, telco and technology related matters.
Duties include also :