Work Experience
Global Virtual Work Experience Programme
Global Virtual Work Experience Programme
Work experience is an important part of your career journey.
It helps you gain a valuable insight into your chosen career path by exposing you to some of the tasks and responsibilities you would face in the role and start developing the skills to help make you successful. It also is a great tool to help you decide if your chosen career path is the right one for you.
At A&O we recognise legal work experience can at times be difficult to obtain. Which is why we’ve partnered with Forage to design a globally accessible virtual work experience. The self-paced modular experience will provide you with valuable insights into the day-to-day tasks a commercial lawyer at A&O will face and help you decide if this is the career for you.
*We also offer an alternative virtual work experience for school and college leavers based on Employment Law.
Eligibility*
Our technology and M&A transaction virtual work experience is aimed at undergraduates, post-graduates and beyond.
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About the programme
At A&O we work with some of the biggest clients on complex business problems. By completing our virtual work experience you’ll get to see what it’s really like on the inside. Our Technology and M&A law virtual work experience has been designed to provide you with a variety of real tasks, designed by our lawyers based on their experiences. Take your time to work through four tasks based on real life scenarios to really help you understand what the day-to-day work of a commercial lawyer entails, the skills needed and most importantly, allows you to practice these.
Workplace skills
Gain practical skills and experience to better prepare you for the world of work. Programmes are self-paced so you can learn on your own time. You will get the opportunity to see what legal reasoning looks like on a practical level, practice interpreting contracts, working with clients, demonstrate lateral thinking and apply legal principles.
Based on real life
Our technology and M&A virtual experience is based on real-life scenarios, and we’ve carefully designed the tasks to give you an insight into the life cycle of an exciting technology and M&A transaction with a fictious client.
What you'll gain
Completing this work experience will allow you to up-skill and stand out on your application form as well as in the assessment process. You’ll be able to demonstrate a real understanding of what it takes to be a commercial lawyer, the skills required and gain industry insights.
Then & Now
Our A&O Lawyers all started from somewhere. From all kinds of backgrounds. Through every stage of their life, from personal to professional and the challenges along the way, our lawyers look back on the journeys that got them where they are today.
Growing up in Jordan with a genetic condition, Ghazi learned to live life despite limitations. With the grades, curiosity and interest, there was nothing to lose and everything to gain. His story shows anything is possible.
Jennifer has experienced a world, career and life that she never thought would be in her reach. Hear how a summer school for low-income backgrounds changed Jennifer’s perspective on what she could achieve.
Born in Nigeria, Mitch believes nothing is impossible. Now a partner at A&O and mum of three, she has surrounded herself with the right people and has had support from her family every step of the way.
