Training Contracts at CMS Cameron McKenna

Top ten players bring top ten competitions. In addition to looking for excellent grades, CMS Cameron McKenna seeks candidates who strike the difficult balance of standing out while simultaneously fitting in. But once the decision is made, the decision is made. You won’t be hanging on every rumble and beep from your mobile for weeks; after your interview at CMS Cameron McKenna, if they want you, they let you know quick sharp.

CMS Cameron McKenna Graduate Recruitment Info

Contact:
Graduate Recruitment Team
Tel: 0845 300 0491

Application Deadlines: Training Contracts: 31st July 2012

How to apply: www.cmstalklaw.com/Pages/default.aspx?referrer=cmcksite

CMS Cameron McKenna Profile & Stats

Since its inauguration in 1997, CMS Cameron McKenna has become a significant force across Europe as well as amongst the City’s top players, where it ranks as the 10th largest firm by turnover. As one of nine law firms throughout the Continent bonded by the CMS prefix, CMS Cameron McKenna is best known for its substantial finance and corporate practices.

The firm’s lengthy moniker is the result of 1) the 1997 merger of UK firms, McKenna & Co and Cameron Markby Hewitt, and 2) its founding member status of the CMS alliance. However, the origins of the firm can be traced back 200 years prior to this conjoining, with the practice of T Hewitt. Today, the CMS organisation boasts 59 offices, almost 600 partners and over 2000 lawyers. The firm has renowned practices in Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moscow and Romania, and – in addition to its London base – UK outposts in Bristol, Aberdeen and Edinburgh.

CMS Cameron McKenna inspires loyalty from its roster of FTSE 100 and finance clients, by offering a full service approach and promoting long-term relationships. And with many of the firm’s UK competitors limited to offices in the City, CMS takes full advantage of its regional outposts to deliver services at a lower cost. The firm's impressive domestic client base includes BP, Lloyds TSB, Microsoft, Nestlé, Procter and Gamble, RBS and Shell.

Although its finance and corporate practices make up nearly half of the turnover company-wide, its litigation department also puts in a strong innings – supplying almost a quarter of the firm’s revenue. However, CMS Cameron McKenna has many strings to its bow, with one notable thread being its energy, projects and construction group. With a jaw-clenchingly enviable client list, CMS advises top firms in the market, including AMEC, BP, McAlpine, Metronet and Taylor Woodrow. The firm’s insurance practice forms another essential part of the CMS Cameron McKenna whole. Its contentious and non-contentious teams, spread across London and Bristol, focus their energy on a relatively small list of 25 – 30 major clients, including Deutsche Bank, Prudential and John Laing. And completing the CMS Cameron McKenna chord is the firm's notable tax and real estate practices.

In 2004, CMS Cameron McKenna made a concerted change to the way it treated its employees, by becoming the first firm in the City to publish a human capital report – detailing how its staff were looked after. By putting ‘organising, coaching and developing’ at the core of its business strategy, CMS Cameron McKenna has since developed a reputation as a great place to work, with a friendly and supportive company culture. Driven by competition from the Magic Circle, CMS Cameron McKenna knew it had its work cut out in attracting the best lawyers, and by implementing these changes it has done so successfully.

CMS Cameron McKenna’s Community Affairs Programme is the umbrella term for the firm’s corporate responsibility. This encompasses pro bono, volunteering and charitable donations. The firm represents death row prisoners in the Bahamas, and each year it picks a charity and matches employee donations. Environmentally, the firm has taken great strides: since 2002, CMS Cameron McKenna has recycled 450,000 kg of paper, 100,000 kg of cardboard and over 3,000 computers, monitors and printers.