Law Internship Placements in Shanghai

  China

• Shanghai: 
Shanghai

Term: Throughout the year 
Dates: You decide your starting day and the length of your stay.

Description: Getting to grips with China's legal system?

We offer the opportunity to work for corporate commercial law firms in China. During your placement you will work alongside lawyers, patent and trademark attorneys and legal assistants. You will be able to specialize in one of the following areas:

- Corporate Affairs and Securities
- Finance
- Real estate
- Intellectual property and IT
- International Investment and International Trade
- Company / Commercial   

You will be directly involved and be given real work from day one. You will assist highly-qualified practitioners who have received Master's or Doctorate degrees from well-known domestic and/or overseas law schools, when representing the world's largest multi-nationals in a variety of transactions, as well as local clients in the international corporate investment arena.

Highlights: Our partner law firms are all ranked amongst the Top 20 Chinese law firms ranked by China's Ministry of Justice.

Our law firms partners have developed excellence in the practice of law and to the founding of modern law practices in China. You will work in an environment guided by values such as professionalism, responsiveness, creativeness and teamwork.

You will have the choice to intern in firms which practice cover many commercial law related areas, such as corporate mergers & acquisitions, restructuring and reorganizing, securities law and capital market, foreign direct investment, overseas investment and reverse merger, banking and financing, intellectual property, real estate development, infrastructure projects, power projects and project financing, government procurement and project bidding,information technology and media services, entertainment law and mass communications, natural resources and mining, international trade and law compliance, maritime law, sports law,dispute resolution (commercial litigation and arbitration).

Qualifications:
- Pre-University students
- Law students
- Recent graduates looking for a first law experience abroad
- Young professionals looking for a career break or change

Cost in US$: 3,180

Experience Required: no

This Program is open to Worldwide Participants.

Participants Travel to China Independently

Typically Participants Work Independently or in Groups of 5-10

Application Process Involves:

• Online Application plus Application Assessment
• Resume
• Written Application

Post-Program Services Include:

• Alumni Network
• Exit Debriefing Abroad

Next Step Connections Ltd 's Mission Statement: Next Step Connections organizes professional internship programs in China. Our mission is to help students, graduates and young professionals bridge the gap between the student to the professional world. We also aim at promoting professional and social connections between students from all over the world as we believe that life inside our internship program open eyes to the ways of a broader world.

Year Founded: 2007