Our Associate Trainee programme is a full-time programme for law students who are close to graduation or have completed at least three years of legal studies. It's a four-month programme into the bustle of one of the largest law firms in Finland.

As an Associate Trainee, you’ll get a front-row seat to the work of a practice group of your interest. Your work consists mainly of assisting our lawyers in various client matters by, for example, gathering information, drafting documents, and conducting legal research.

The trainee programme starts with an orientation week and all our trainees receive coaching and feedback helping them grow in the direction of their choice. Read more about the most typical tasks and make your team choice easier. Whether you like fast-paced assignments or analytical work, we have a right team for you

The role of a Legal Trainee entails working closely with our lawyers and on assignments with a focus on assisting the administration in bankruptcy proceedings and corporate restructuring cases. The trainee programme is usually intended for students who have finished at least three years of legal studies. While the position is part-time (2-4 days a week), your input might occasionally be needed on a full-time basis.

Being a part of the Knowledge Management team is about assisting our lawyers in legal research and information retrieval and supporting the firm’s legal practices to stay up-to-date on legal, regulatory and market developments. A great way to familiarise yourself with legal research, the trainee programme runs part-time (2-3 days a week) for one year and would suit a student who has finished two to three years of studies and is familiar with most fields of law.

Being an Office Support Trainee is the perfect way to become familiar with all aspects of legal work. Intended for students in the early phase of their studies, the traineeship runs for at least eight months. It is a part-time role, approximately 1-2 days a week.

As an Office Support Trainee, you help keep the office running by assisting our lawyers and business services in various tasks, including collating materials, couriering, and mailing documents and covering for our reception staff at our front desk and switchboard. As an Office Support Trainee, you’ll become familiar with the day-to-day life of one of Finland’s most prestigious law firms, while meeting respected and like-minded professionals.

The work of our law firm would not be possible without the dedicated personnel that helps us run our day-to-day operations. As a Legal Assistant Trainee, working as a part of our highly skilled Legal Assistant team, you’ll support our assistants and lawyers in versatile tasks related to client projects and other assignments. This position suits, for example, a Bachelor of Business Administration student. The paid internship runs for five to six months and starts either in the autumn or spring semester.

A legal assistant trainee’s main responsibilities include, for example, project and document management, meeting, seminar and travel arrangements, preparing and editing presentation and marketing materials, as well as various other assistant work. The position prepares you to thrive in a demanding professional environment and will equip you with skills that will be valuable in every step of your career journey.

From time to time, we offer traineeships in our Finance, Marketing, Human Resources, IT and Office Support teams.

Any experience (for example, summer jobs, other traineeships, legal case competitions) is useful. Bring up what you’ve learned from your previous roles in your application.

Be ready to tell about yourself, previous experience or studies and your strengths. Consider what goals you’d like to set for your traineeship. When you attend the interview, you’ll have an opportunity to meet Krogerus' employees and get to know us as an employer, so think about what you’d like to ask us, too!

There are plenty of different opportunities. You can, for instance, apply for another traineeship or be considered for a permanent associate lawyer position depending on which stage of your studies you are in and what our recruitment needs are.

Yes, a student exchange doesn’t interfere with an application process. You will be able to attend the interview online.

You can fill in an open application, which we’ll take into account during our next recruitment process. Make sure to clearly state when you’d like to start your traineeship in your open application.

In addition to our HR team, our recruitment processes involve lawyers from different practices, who are the primary decision-makers.

For all traineeships, you’ll undergo one interview and possibly execute a small task like a translation or legal research assignment.