Every year our Geneva and Zurich offices each offer between 10 and 15 motivated and talented students the opportunity to join our summer student trainee program.

The student trainee program is a six-week traineeship (Zurich) or an eight-week traineeship (Geneva) that we offer during law school summer break. Student trainees participating in the program are fully integrated in a small team of associates and regular trainees headed by one of our partners. They assist on ongoing assignments for our clients, but are not expected to materially contribute to the substantive advice Lenz & Staehelin renders to its clients. Rather, the student trainee program is primarily meant to give students a first practical insight into the daily work of a leading business law firm after they have spent at least five semesters at law school. The program allows student trainees to decide whether they wish to launch their career in a business law firm after graduating from law school.

Student trainees are offered semi-weekly lunch seminars that provide an introductory overview of a number of practice areas (the program may include topics such as public tender offers, competition law, intellectual property law, litigation and arbitration, professional rules of conduct, contract drafting, preparation for law school exams and the bar exam, postgraduate studies abroad, etc.).

While our student trainee program is not a recruiting tool as such, we frequently employ former student trainees with excellent academic qualifications as regular trainees in our Geneva and Zurich offices after they have completed their master’s degree (or equivalent) at law school. Student trainees are compensated for the time they work with us.

You will find information sheets for our student traineeships posted at your law school or under these links (Geneva office / Zurich office). We look forward to receiving applications for our student trainee program from motivated and talented candidates who have completed their fifth semester at law school.

Please send your application together with your photo, curriculum vitae, diplomas and references to:

Geneva and Lausanne offices:
Private and Confidential
LENZ & STAEHELIN
Daniel Schafer
Route de Chêne 30
CH-1211 Geneva 17

Zurich office:
Private and Confidential
LENZ & STAEHELIN
Hans-Jakob Diem
Bleicherweg 58
CH-8027 Zurich