Never underestimate the power in you to make an impact.
We believe our programs should allow you to explore your interests.
Our programs expose you to a wide variety of business areas, skills, teams and challenges, helping you understand where your strengths lie. You’ll be given challenging and career-building opportunities, and responsibilities that no other program provides so early in a graduate’s career. We want you to be more than just a technically excellent lawyer. We want you to be make an impact.
Ready to practise law in the real world? We pride ourselves on giving clerks real work with real clients, so you can start your career with confidence.
Be part of our clerkship program where you’ll undertake exhilarating real-world legal work for clients. Clients who trust us to help them solve their most complex problems, in the most innovative and efficient way. You’ll be guided every step of the way by our industry-leading and commercially driven lawyers and partners. But your career is about more than just a job. We’ll also give you opportunities to grow personally – as well as professionally. And we’ll guide you every step of the way.
In our program, you will:
There are summer and winter programs available nationally of varying durations.
Who is this program most suitable for?
Students in their penultimate or final year of their law degree.
You’ve started your career and now it’s time to thrive. We have a program designed just for that. And it’s award-winning.
Our graduates quickly gain legal and business expertise by working alongside high-performing partners, lawyers and professionals in a collaborative and innovative environment. You will have the opportunity to rotate through different practice areas. And be part of exciting and challenging transactional, advisory and litigation work.
We’ll give you real responsibility and autonomy. And we’ll be by your side supporting you as you take those responsibilities on. We will set you up with a mentoring partner for each rotation, a supervisor to guide your day-to-day work, and a buddy to help you settle in and navigate your different practice group experiences and offer program support and direction.
We are your partners in success. Every day, we will help you bring your best self to work, navigate challenges, and ensure that at the end of the program you are best positioned for the next step you want to take.
Our award-winning development program includes:
Who is this program suitable for?
Students in the final year of their law degree, or who have recently graduated are eligible to apply directly for graduate roles, if and when they become available.
We most often recruit our graduates from the clerkship program, but from time to time we do go to market for graduate roles. If you are looking specifically for a graduate role, please keep an eye on our website
The world is being disrupted and market demands are changing. The next generation of graduates will transform the future of professional services – we want you to help us!
At MinterEllison, innovation is at the heart of what we do. In a world with ever-changing opportunities and challenges across every sector we are constantly exploring new and exciting ways to enhance the way we work – leveraging inspiration, invention and imagination.
By joining our Revolution program, you will lead change and disruption. We will equip you to challenge the status quo, build your skills in best practice methodology and support you to gain market relevant certification in core areas. You will bring the knowledge from your degree and your ever curious mind to play a role in our vision to change the future of professional services.
As a Legal Operations Graduate, you will work under the guidance of our expansive Digital team. You will be embedded in our centres of excellence where we will hone your skills in consulting methodologies, project management and process analysis whilst exploring possibilities using emerging technology and artificial intelligence. You will work directly with our legal and consultancy teams to deliver innovative and effective solutions.
By joining us you will be incorporated in a team that embraces digital change to unlock value, give time back to our people and help us thrive – as individuals, as a firm and in our communities.
Below are recent highlights of our firm's success:
This opportunity includes:
Through this program you will be given responsibility and autonomy, with guidance, mentoring and support to lay the foundations of your career in professional services. You will develop skills to start your development as a business partner that translates requirements to outcomes and works directly with our teams to deliver innovative, effective and transformative solutions.
Use your degree for something inspiring, join us and grow your career alongside award winning teams and award winning leaders.
Who is this program suitable for?
Students in their final year or those who have recently graduated, preferably within the following disciplines: Business, Commerce, Economics, Finance, Information Technology, Computer Science, Law. A double degree is ideal, but not essential.
To discover more, read about our Legal Operations group in a recent publication or check out more about MinterEllison on our LinkedIn page or explore the many interesting reads on our website (below is a sample to get you started).
MinterEllison's Technology Consulting team (formerly ITNewcom) has been delivering exceptional CoX outcomes for over 20 years to public and private enterprises in Australia and New Zealand. The team has led over $50 billion worth of complex technology programs and projects.
We advise clients on how to make use of new technology trends, how to optimise existing and future technology spend through alternative operating models and sourcing strategies, and how to execute major transactions to establish new relationships with technology suppliers.
Whilst engaging with a broad range of high profile clients you will be responsible for specific components of a project, which may include:
Who is this program suited for?
Students in their final year, or those who have recently graduated from a combined undergraduate degree, preferably within the following disciplines: Business, Economics, Commerce, Computer Science, Law, Mathematics, Actuarial Studies, Finance, Information Technology or Business Information Systems. Candidates must also have Australian citizenship at application and the eligibility to obtain an Australian government security clearance.
We have partnered with Forage to provide an interactive virtual internship that gives you a true-to-life experience of commercial work at a top-tier law firm. In this innovative online program, participants will be briefed on work by partners and lawyers, then submit legal tasks. Once complete, they’ll unlock real work samples that reveal how a MinterEllison lawyer completed the same tasks.
We’re not looking for people to fit a certain mould. Your academic results are just one part of who you are. Work experience, extracurricular activities, sporting participation, music and travel are all important criteria to us. At MinterEllison, we want you to bring your whole self to work – because it is your unique strengths, experiences and perspectives that build our teams up to be the successes they are.
An outstanding applicant will know their application inside and out. They will be confident in their responses and be able to provide real-life examples to the questions we ask. They will have a desire to get to know the business and the people at the firm – what draws these people to MinterEllison and what do they enjoy there? They’re interested in knowing these things, so they can make the right choice for themselves.
We invite you to apply for our Clerkship and Graduate programs and we look forward to meeting you in your city.
Complete the online application form.
Attach your resume, cover letter ad transcripts
Complete a psychometric assessment.
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