Dublin Training Contract 2025

Our Dublin Training Contract

A training contract at Kennedys marks the beginning of an exciting and rewarding career at a globally renowned law firm. During your two-year training contract, you will gain early responsibility and client contact, preparing you to handle your own caseload once you qualify.

Throughout your contract, you will gain experience across our core practice areas, including Liability Defence, Healthcare and Insurance.

With guidance from senior associates and partners, you will develop into a competent, confident and commercially minded lawyer by the end of your training contract.

Training will be provided to ensure you are supported throughout your contract. You will be assigned a "buddy" to mentor and support you throughout your journey. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to attend in-house and external seminars, while having access to a wide range of online skills and technical learning through our learning management system.

Trainee solicitors are an integral part of the Kennedys framework and our training programme is designed to develop excellent future lawyers. Many of our partners, including our Senior Partner, began their legal careers as trainees at Kennedys.

The Kennedys website hosts a number of Trainee Day in the Life Videos to give you a true insight into trainee life. 

We are now recruiting trainees who are available to start working in our office in May 2025 and attend the PPC course in September 2025.

What we offer?

Kennedys offers a competitive salary and a wide range of benefits to its trainees. We will also reimburse you for your Fe1s, pay for your PPC fees and provide a thorough and structured training programme for you throughout your contract.

You may also have the opportunity to go on a client secondment.

Ready to take the next step?

We welcome applications from graduates of all disciplines—whether law or non-law. If you are determined, eager to learn and excited to contribute, we'd love to hear from you.

In your application, we want to get to know the person behind the grades to find out what sets you apart.

Applicants must be ready to commence the PPC in September 2025 and have completed all eight Fe1 exams by the end of March 2025.

Applications must be submitted via our online application form before 31 October 2024.

Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments or additional support in order to submit your application to Kennedys. 

About Kennedys

Kennedys is a global law firm with expertise in dispute resolution and advisory services. With over 2,750 people worldwide across 45 offices in the UK, Europe, Middle East, Asia Pacific and America we have some of the most respected legal minds in their field.

Our lawyers handle both contentious and non-contentious matters, and provide a range of specialist legal services, for many industry sectors but we have particular expertise in litigation and dispute resolution, especially in defending insurance and liability claims.

We're a fresh-thinking firm, and we're not afraid to bring challenging new perspectives to the table way beyond the traditional realm of legal services. We empower our clients with a diverse range of ideas, tools and technology to make their lives easier, as well as delivering exceptional results, every time.

What do we have to offer?

We welcome high-performing lawyers, business services professionals, secretaries, graduates and apprentices to join our rapidly expanding global firm. Whatever your role at Kennedys, you'll be involved in exciting and stimulating work, where your input will make a difference.

Our culture and values form a big part of who we are and we take them seriously. We make a difference by being approachable, straightforward, supportive and distinctive. Our values are at the core of who we are and what make us a great firm to work with and for.

The Firm recognises the value of investing in our people's development and believes our culture and values contribute to the quality of our work and of our client relationships. With a culture of on-the-job and experiential learning, peer to peer learning, mentoring, resources and tools that enable you to drive your career, we can support your development in your current and future roles.  A variety of other opportunities are available including secondments to clients and our global offices.

We strive to celebrate diversity, empower our people and ensure everyone can bring their authentic selves to work.  We've created a culture based on client service, professional excellence, hard work and trust, where diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) is a key priority.  We recognise that many of our people want to work for an employer that is aligned to their values, which is why we are building an inclusive culture, decarbonising our operations and supporting our people to thrive at work.  Our people are the key to driving this change and helping us to make a difference to our clients, our people and the communities in which we live and work.

Kennedys is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. We expect all employees to be aware of and comply with all relevant policies and procedures within their jurisdiction, including those relating to Information Security, Data Protection and Quality Management, refer any breach promptly to Risk & Compliance and to complete all mandatory training when requested.