2026 Digital Legal Delivery Vacation Scheme

About Digital Legal Delivery

Digital adaption is presenting businesses with efficiencies and opportunities at pace - Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer is no different. Continuing to support our clients with this rapid change, we have created a collective of the best analytical legal minds with investments in cutting-edge technology and technologists in our Digital Legal Delivery practice.

Delivering a holistic response to clients, our agile problem solvers are supporting businesses who need invention from their legal advisors. Leveraging experience to map the intersections where people and tech deliver results, this team supports businesses undergoing their own digitisation projects and those who seek disentanglement from the manual and inefficient processes in the delivery of legal services.

Imagining possibilities, HSF Kramer's Digital Legal Delivery practice is implementing the best technology solutions today, while horizon scanning and experimenting with emerging technologies to understand their practical applications. Continuously evolving through proven design thinking, advisory, and new law frameworks, generative AI came as no surprise to HSF Kramer's digital team, neither will the next big transformation.

Legal

In Legal, we help shape how the firm delivers legal matters to clients. We have longstanding experience in thinking differently about law, and we are at the forefront of making legal services more efficient - particularly at scale.

We have a deep knowledge across a broad range of sectors, and a wealth of experience in delivering large and complex mandates. We are specialists in contract management, document review, volume claims and remediation, and due diligence.

Working collaboratively with colleagues from across the firm, we use our expertise in law, process design and technology to deliver solutions for our clients. Underpinned by our legal project management capability, we organise our collective effort as efficiently and seamlessly as possible.

This ensures consistent delivery throughout and enables our clients to achieve efficiencies across their operations.

Legal Technology

In Legal Technology, we deploy the firm's established technology efficiently and reliably across a range of client matters and projects.

We combine our expertise in document automation, custom development, eDiscovery and data analytics and client reporting - to work collaboratively across the firm on disputes, transactions and projects.

Digital Change

In Digital Change, we innovate, invest and push our firm's boundaries when it comes to new uses of legal technology.

We experiment with technology and pilot tools to understand them deeply: their potential challenges and benefits, and how they can be used in our day-to-day work to provide better solutions for clients.

And we ensure we have the right internal governance when it comes to making decisions, so we can minimise risk, maximise our opportunities and provide consistency for our stakeholders.

Advisory

In Advisory, we bring deep expertise in legal operations and emerging technologies, working across any sector, alongside our teams or directly with clients.

We are trusted advisers to our clients on new ways of working as we scan the horizon, together.

Vacation Scheme

The 4 weeks will start in June 2026 and you will be supported throughout with a supervisor and buddy. Across the duration of the scheme you'll be set a written exercise to complete across the duration which will be assessed, alongside your performance in role, to determine offers for permanent graduate opportunities in the Belfast office, such as Trainee Solicitor positions to start in September 2027 and Legal Analyst roles if they are available.

As a leading international law firm, we look for high performing Law students who show a real affinity for the Law and a desire to be part of and contribute to a firm that is a global leader in commercial legal excellence. Diverse interests and experiences, a commitment to the core values of the legal profession and a desire to be part of a global team are all essential attributes.

At the time of application you must:

• Be a penultimate year or final year Law student or LLM student with a Law degree, or a Graduate with a qualifying Law degree (including PGDL);
• Evidence consistent 2:1s throughout your degree, but we do take mitigating circumstances into account;
• Demonstrate an ability to review, analyse and organise documentary and factual evidence;
• Have excellent organisational and communication skills;
• Show an eye for detail, aiming to get it right first time; and
• Be committed to delivering excellent client service through understanding the client context, building relationships, and taking a commercial approach.

Please note if you have previously made an application in the last six months and completed a technical test, you will not be eligible to re-apply at this time. This is a full-time paid opportunity.

APPLICATION PROCESS

• Complete Application Form - 4 December 2025 to 16 January 2026
• Complete a Technical Test (remote) - March 2026
• Assessment Centre (in-person) - April 2026

Note: The closing date for applications is 12:00pm (GMT) on Friday 19 January 2026