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Interesting selling points

We cover these selling points in more detail below, alongside other relevant firm facts and characteristics.

Practice areas / services

Freshfields is a full-service law firm, with a broad range of practice areas including: 

Chambers and Partners, a leading analyst of the legal market, has awarded Freshfields its highest ‘Band 1’ ranking for the following departments: Banking Litigation, Employee Share Schemes & Incentives, Financial Services: Non-contentious Regulatory, Product Liability: Mainly Defendant and Tax: Contentious. See here for more information.

Key sectors / industries

Freshfields services a broad range of industries, with some of its highest-value clients operating in the following sectors:

In addition, Freshfields services the following industries: Automotive, Chemicals, Consumer products, Fintech, Infrastructure, Insurance, Life sciences, Media, Entertainment and Sports, Mining and Metals, Retail and Telecommunications.

Work

Freshfields has consistently advised on some of the highest-profile transactions and cases over the past few decades. Some notable examples of recent work include: 

Offices / global footprint / expansion

Headquarters: London, 100 Bishopsgate.

Offices: Freshfields has 30 offices around the world, in jurisdictions including in Paris, Tokyo and New York, as well as its newly opened office in Silicon Valley.

Insights, internships and other opportunities

Freshfields offers a variety of opportunities for students wishing to understand more about the firm and the work of a lawyer. These include workshops, in which the firm offers an inside look into Freshfields; vacation schemes, in which candidates get the opportunity to spend two to three weeks in a Freshfields office; and the training contract itself, open to all prospective applicants regardless of background.

2025 marks the beginning of the firm’s first solicitor apprenticeship cohort.  

Training contract

Freshfields offers a unique eight-seat training contract, with each seat spanning three months (but the option to extend certain seats to six months). Trainees as part of this program must take at least one seat in dispute resolution and two seats in global transactions, with further options including antitrust, real estate, and technology. On the scheme, trainees will be able to access mentoring and coaching from their assigned ‘trainee intake partner,’ alongside their main and secondary supervisor on each seat.

The firm also offers a ‘London-Asia’ training contract, which enables successful applicants (who must be native in an Asian language and fluent in English) to split their training between London and Hong Kong.

Secondments

Trainees can apply for a secondment during the final six months of their training contract. Secondments are available at one of the firm’s international offices (including Silicon Valley, New York, Hong Kong and Dubai) or at one of the firm’s clients (including the Bank of England, Goldman Sachs or at one of the firm’s pro bono clients). 

Technology and innovation

Freshfields is committed to utilising technology to provide clients with flexible and innovative legal services, with related initiatives including:

Corporate social responsibility

Providing free of charge advice for charities is a major part of Freshfields’ working culture, with lawyers contributing 85,000 hours of pro bono work in 2023. This work has included:

Diversity and inclusion

In accordance with the firm’s values - ‘belong, engage, excel’ - Freshfields promotes a variety of initiatives designed to foster and support diversity and inclusion. To give a few examples:

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