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RPC applications open at the start of October and end in the final week of June the following year.
RPC – Reynolds Porter Chamberlain – is a corporate and insurance law firm. It is headquartered in London, and has been named Law Firm of the Year thrice since 2014, as well as Best Legal Adviser every year since 2009. It provides a broad spectrum of legal services across the globe, including commercial litigation, construction, corporate & M&A, employment and pensions, engineering and projects, insurance, IP and technology, media, outsourcing, real estate, regulatory, and tax and competition. It also has some expertise in media and defamation. Primarily though, it focuses on insurance (or at least that is where its reputation lies). The firm employs about 720 people, of whom 81 are partners and 334 others are lawyers. RPC has offices in London, Bristol, Singapore and Hong Kong. The firm is the only English member of TerraLex. The profit per equity partner in 2019/2020 was GBP424,000. The firm was founded in 1898.
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You will spend ‘at least six months in four different areas of our practice’ meaning that you can understand where you fit in at RPC. You may have the chance to take a secondment to a client as an in-house lawyer if this appeals to you, and you could also spend six months in either the Hong Kong or Singapore office. The firm believes that a non-hierarchical structure benefits trainees, so it has open plan offices where you can always sit near a partner. In the virtual office, the firm ensures that support is available whenever you need it via video call, and maintains that same non-hierarchical structure. They emphasise that trainees are respected and listened to from the outset.
RPC runs a blind recruitment process. Recruitment for London training contracts typically takes place during July and August. If you make the shortlist, then you will be invited to an assessment day. The firm typically only invites a very small number of applicants (around 40 out of 900) to its assessment centre.
A typical day at the assessment centre might look like this:
8:45 am arrival, Introduction from recruitment
9:15 writing task one hour followed by 10-15 minutes of questions from partners regarding the written task
11:00-12:30 interview with 2 partners
12:30-2pm talk and Q&A with trainees 2pm end
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