International Arbitration Intern

APPLICATIONS MUST BE MADE VIA OUR PORTAL. ANY CVs emailed across will be immediately deleted. Please do not contact the Partners directly, all enquiries are being handled exclusively by the recruitment team.

Applications are being considered on a rolling basis and are accepted until 4 April 2025. We ask that you do not make duplicate applications for this role. Please submit a CV only (no cover letter or additional documentation is sought at this stage).

To avoid technical difficulties with the application, we suggest applying via the careers page on the firm's website, rather than via LinkedIn.

This is a 6 month fixed term role, commencing in September 2025.

About us

Linklaters is a leading international law firm, with 31 offices in 21 countries worldwide. We are one of The Times’ Top 50 Employers for Women, a Working Families top 30 employer, recognised by Stonewall as a top 10 employer for LGBTQ+ inclusion, and by the Social Mobility Employer Index as a top employer for advancing social mobility.

The Linklaters International arbitration team comprises more than 200 people worldwide, with more than 20 members based in London. The team keep in touch with each other and up to date with work and client developments through global newsletters, monthly business development calls and regular training/off-site meetings. Members of the team work together across time zones/seniority on agreed projects and initiatives, including tracking economic and political developments in different jurisdictions to anticipate work opportunities, and other ideas. This is an exciting time to join, as we are looking to grow the Arbitration practice considerably.

Through being part of the Arbitration team, this role would also become a part of the wider London Dispute Resolution team – a team that prides itself (alongside top-quality investigations and disputes expertise) on being at the forefront of people development and Diversity & Inclusion initiatives for the London office more widely, and with active client/BD and innovation teams as well as a creative social committee.

Linklaters’ International Arbitration team acts in investment treaty disputes and commercial arbitrations for large multi-national companies, states and state entities. The team’s usual caseload consists of more than 100 arbitrations, many of which are multi-jurisdictional, conducted under the arbitration rules of all the major institutions and seated in arbitration hubs across the world.

Members of the team are located across Linklaters’ offices world-wide and handle disputes across an even wider range of jurisdictions. The team’s work ranges from giving risk mitigation advice in advance of formal disputes, through to handling all aspects of an arbitration, including acting as counsel in final hearings, and representing clients in subsequent challenge / annulment / enforcement proceedings.

About you

We are recruiting Interns to join the London-based members of our International Arbitration team, but they will assist both the London team and the global team as required in relation to existing arbitrations as well as various knowhow and business development projects.

What we’re looking for:

• Graduate or post-graduate qualification(s) in international arbitration law and practice

• Given the international nature of our clients and our arbitration work, varied language skills would be helpful

• Experience of working on international arbitrations within a law firm would be ideal, particularly where that experience includes legal research and drafting submissions

• Experience of participating in arbitration moot competitions (eg, Willem C Vis Moot, FDI Moot, etc), internships in international arbitration in law firms, work experience with arbitrators or at arbitral institutions, and other experience in fields related to international arbitration

• Strong commercial awareness

• Highly motivated and team-orientated and prepared to assist clients and colleagues (out of normal office hours) to meet deadlines

• Performs well under pressure whilst maintaining excellent attention to detail

• Able to comprehend, critically analyse and then use creatively large volumes of case information and documents

• Being fluent in English, with a proven track record of sophisticated legal drafting in English (e.g., pleadings, submissions, journal/research articles)

Your role

The role will likely include the following tasks:

• Research on aspects of investment arbitration, international commercial arbitration, public international law, private international law, construction law, energy law and other relevant areas of legal practice, and related drafting of internal and client memoranda, as well as relevant sections of submissions

• Assisting with the preparation and filing of pleadings and submissions

• Hearing preparation and attendance

• Review and analysis of documentary evidence, including preparation of factual chronologies

• Assisting in relation to the disclosure of documents

• Participation in client meetings/calls

• Monitoring developments in target jurisdictions from the perspective of anticipating potential BIT claims

• Drafting articles for the ArbitrationLinks blog on recent developments in international arbitration

• Involvement in marketing and Knowhow projects

Our commitment to you

You will be part of a vibrant people business that loves working collaboratively in a positive, supportive, fair and open atmosphere. We respect and value difference but insist on inclusivity, celebrating all aspects of diversity because we want everyone to feel that they belong.

Start date

September 2025 (date to be confirmed).

Duration

Six months

Salary

£55,000 per annum (pro rata for duration of role).

Technical Skills

This list of duties and responsibilities above is not exhaustive.  It is intended to describe the general content of, and requirements for, the performance of this job. As such, the role may also include the undertaking of additional tasks as required.

Application Policy

Applications and CVs (direct or via agency) are only accepted online via the portal. Queries related to our roles must be directed to the relevant recruitment team and not the partners, practices or stakeholders ([email protected] for legal roles or [email protected] for business team roles).