Your O'melveny Experience

Your O’Melveny Experience What do you want to achieve? O’MELVENY’S INTERNSHIP/TRAINEE PROGRAM Reach your full potential Exciting development Exposure to a wide array of and career opportunities experiences and opportunities We understand and believe that our We do our best to help you learn as much as you can and ability to continually attract the best expose you to as many different types of law as possible and brightest legal talent is absolutely during the internship/trainee program. Our goal is to give central to our future success as one you substantive work opportunities, including pro bono of the world’s leading law firms. It is work, and teach you what it means to be an “O’Melveny our goal to see you succeed and to lawyer”. A central element of being an “O’Melveny help you do so through our internship/ lawyer” is abiding by our firm’s strongly held values: trainee program. Excellence, Leadership, and Citizenship. Training and Evaluation mentoring To ensure that you receive appropriate feedback and opportunity Training is an important for growth, there are informal feedback sessions following the aspect of our internship/ completion of each assignment. You will also receive at least one trainee programme. The formal evaluation during the internship program and more during the goal of the mentors is to trainee program. These evaluations provide an opportunity for open ensure that you have a dialogue between you and experienced lawyers about the quality of meaningful experience. your work and your experience at O’Melveny. How to Apply If you would like to apply for an internship or training contract at O’Melveny, please visit our website at www.omm.com or submit your resume, cover letter, and a copy of your academic transcript to [email protected]. VACANCIES DEADLINES Summer Placement 2021 : Applications open 1 November Summer Interns: 4 to 6 2020 and close 15 January 2021; applications are considered on a rolling basis and early submissions are encouraged. Training Contracts 2023 : Applications via internship Trainee Solicitors: 2 to 3 program; ongoing, until all vacancies are filled. WHY O’MELVENY? Edward Poon Associate What is something that makes What makes the firm’s training O’Melveny unique? program unique? The people is what makes O’Melveny To me, O’Melveny’s training program is unique to me. The firm has a group robust and provide junior with essential of talented professionals who are skills in surviving and excelling as a junior friendly and are always no more than a lawyer, no matter what discipline that “O’Melveny phone call away. Working at O’Melveny may intend to pursue after completing has allowed me to learn the ropes their training. You will learn from some doesn’t focus from knowledgeable individuals and exceptional individuals who are willing to participate in a variety of high profile work delegate and assign responsibility at an only on results, that keeps the job interesting. early stage, while providing support and guidance is always available when needed. but also on the Would you recommend O’Melveny growth and to trainee candidates? Tell us something you find the Yes, I would most definitely recommend most impressive about working at well-being of O’Melveny to anyone who is looking O’Melveny? to grow their professional skills with a The team’s commitment to clients as each member of group of extremely supporting and caring well as ability to find time to relax and the O’Melveny colleagues. The firm also has a diverse have fun is what I find most impressive set of practices and I certainly thinks about O’Melveny. Each person works in a family during the that there will be something that will suit professional manner but still manage to find anybody! I believe that O’Melveny is not time to socialize with one another, catching process.” only a place that will nurture professional up on each other’s work and keeping the growth, but the people that you work next firm as one cohesive unit. I truly feel like I to will also allow you to truly grow and am not only valued as an employee of the develop yourself as a person. firm, but rather a part of a greater family that cares about my well-being. Dave Chan Trainee Solicitor Tell us something you’ve How would you describe the firm’s discovered about O’Melveny that culture or environment? you did not know before joining? Growth, inclusiveness and teamwork. Being part of the global O’Melveny A supportive approach with a touch network means we are never short of of independence in your work allows the experience and expertise to provide significant growth in your career at an well rounded solutions to our clients. In early stage. I know that I am trusted as the first year of my traineeship, I have part of the team and seniors value my worked with colleagues in our Beijing views even as a trainee. It is never a and Shanghai offices over a multitude of one-man band; rather it is the contribution tasks and across various work streams of of every single colleague that puts us any given project. on a path to success. While there were WHY O’MELVENY? challenging but rewarding moments this What motivates you? How do you past year, I am excited about what we, as a keep yourself driven? team, will achieve in the year ahead. A vision of where I would like to be in a few years’ time. Using measureable goals Does the firm meet your and celebrating key milestones are good expectations? starting points. Actively seeking feedback Certainly. Early responsibility, collaborative from my colleagues at O’Melveny and environment, supportive colleagues, and constantly re-evaluating my progress to the true growth — what more can you ask for? goals and milestones ahead. Jeremiah Lau Trainee Solicitor How do you maintain work-life What would you call your biggest balance? achievement at O’Melveny? A key feature of the O’Melveny training is that trainees are entrusted with a lot of My transition from a university graduate responsibility to handle tasks and external to being an active fee-earner at the firm, parties. This translates to a steep learning all within the space of one year. Our “Supportive curve, but would also mean that the broad exposure to transactions, and colleagues, work-life balance tends to tip towards the opportunity to take charge of key aspects ‘work’ end of the scale. Freeing time for of a transaction from beginning to end a pleasant ‘life’ would require working efficiently and connotes a privileged legal education. effectively, with a clear sense of when a Despite the challenges experienced working task should be due. I find that this can be throughout work, it is most rewarding when environment, best accomplished by developing a clear you can see yourself becoming more methodology from the outset, developing a knowledgeable on the transactions, and and the firm’s sense of priority based on the urgency and acquire a more mature understanding of importance of a task, and knowing where the role we play as legal professionals. support for to get answers from our firm’s rich resource work-life bank and knowledgeable people that are What have you learned from your willing to help. colleagues at the firm? balance are I was most inspired by the stamina and other important How does the firm help you dedication on display from my colleagues maintain your work-life balance? when handling high volumes of work. sources of Generally speaking, our firm has a deep Through their persevering mentality and motivation that respect for each colleague’s time off from professionalism, I have come to appreciate work. My seniors make an effort not to that lawyers exist not only to provide I have found at disturb me unless absolutely necessary legal expertise, but also assurance, to when I’m taking leave, which is something their clients. This responsibility to provide O’Melveny.” I really appreciate. Our office also hosts assurance is ongoing, and survives beyond social and pro bono events, and invite the close of office hours. I learned from my trainees to participate in their organization colleagues that an integral part of being a and administration. These activities allow lawyer is to assume a mindset of constant us to take our mind off work and network readiness to assist the client. with other professionals both within and outside the office. WHAT DO YOU WANT TO ACHIEVE? It’s more than what you do: it’s how you do it. O’Melveny’s China practice offers lawyers exceptional opportunities for professional development. It’s a place to build a rewarding career by tackling new challenges; being appreciated, included, and supported; and creating lasting connections. Our roots in China run deep. We were one of the first US law firms to open offices in the mainland as well as obtaining a Hong Kong law license. For more than two decades, our lawyers in Hong Kong— who practice Hong Kong, English and US law, in addition to a number of registered foreign lawyers in mainland China and Singapore— have built up an extensive network of business contacts including government bodies, regulators, banks, financiers, funds, corporations, institutional investors and professional firms. As such, we possess first-hand knowledge of the local customs and regulatory regimes that govern the region and are familiar with the working cultures in which our clients operate. Our lawyers in Hong Kong speak English, Cantonese, Mandarin, and various European languages. We regularly advise regional companies on their local and international commercial matters, as well as multinational companies with business interests in Hong Kong and throughout Asia.

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