# London–Asia Trainee Associate Programme

**Company**: Freshfields
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Legal

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## Description

We are seeking a trainee associate to join our London–Asia Trainee Associate Programme.

You are native or fluent to a native standard in an Asian language such as Mandarin, Korean or Indonesian.

In this programme, you will spend your first year in London and your second in an Asian office, giving you the best foundation for an international career and building your network and knowledge on both sides of the globe.

You will be curious, commercially minded and keen to help the world's biggest brand names on their most challenging legal issues.

You will qualify as a lawyer in England & Wales after the two years. Where permitted by local bar rules and after a period of post-qualification experience, you will also be admitted in the country where you've been working.

You will work with the biggest companies in the world, at a top international law firm, surrounded by dedicated, supportive people who are ready to help you learn.

**Qualifications**

You can apply from 1 August 2026 – 31 December 2026 if you are a law or non-law student in your penultimate or final year at university, or if you have graduated in any discipline.

**Benefits**

- Opportunity to work with the biggest companies in the world

- Supportive and dedicated team

- Chance to qualify as a lawyer in England & Wales and potentially in another country

- Language training and development

**Equal Opportunities**

Freshfields is an equal opportunities employer and all applications received by the firm will be considered by the firm on the basis of their merit alone and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals regardless of background.

## Skills

### Required
- Asian language skills (Mandarin, Korean, Indonesian)
- commercial awareness
- legal knowledge

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