Chapman Tripp

Chapman Tripp is New Zealand’s only leading law firm with a truly national presence.

Chapman Tripp is a leading New Zealand law firm with a truly national presence. The firm has held key roles in mergers and acquisitions, disposals, takeovers, financing, insolvency, restructuring, banking, procurement processes, large scale infrastructure products and dispute resolution proceedings.

 

Recent firm awards include New Zealand Employer of Choice at the 2015 Australasian Lawyer Employer of Choice Awards, as well as the New Zealand Law Firm of the Year at the 2015 and 2014 Chambers Asia Pacific Awards for Excellence and the National Law Firm of the Year for New Zealand at the 2016 and 2015 IFLR Asia Awards and a 2015 White Camellia Award for its diversity strategy around gender equality.

 

Along with embracing five core values: integrity, people, collaborative, astute and dynamic, the firm is committed to developing its employees with extensive training.

 

Chapman Tripp offers both winter and summer clerk programmes. The winter clerk programme is a one-week programme designed to offer students hands-on legal experience and is aimed at students with two full years of study remaining. At the end of the programme, students may be invited back to summer clerk with the firm. Applications open on 30 May 2016.

 

Chapman Tripp’s summer clerk programme is aimed at students in the penultimate year of their law degree. The programme gives students the opportunity to spend three months at the firm, work in two different teams, hear from clients, do volunteer work, receive great training and really get to know the people in the firm.

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At the end of the programme, students may be invited back to be a law clerk with the firm.

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Applications for Chapman Tripp’s 2016/2017 summer clerk programme are now closed.

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Applications for Chapman Tripp’s 2017/2018 summer clerk programme will open around March 2017.