ENS: Legal Internships (LLB / Law Graduates)

An exciting Internship opportunity is available for South-African as well as law students who have completed their legal education in English, French, or Portuguese to join the South African offices of ENS in Johannesburg or Cape Town.

As part of our Internship Programme, we offer you:

• A comprehensive induction, including technical, social and interpersonal skills
• Continuous development through exposure to high quality matters and group training
• A fully resourced legal library (our Infohub)
• A mentor to help you to transition from university to the world of work
• Employee wellness 

Key Responsibilities:

• Legal research (collecting and gathering legal sources of information)
• Legal research in comparative law research centres and academic institutions of South-Africa
• Analysing probable outcomes based on legal precedents
• Attending independently to high level research
• Maintaining an up-to-date comprehensive knowledge of developments in the relevant areas of law and disseminate that information
• Drafting country profiles, research notes, synoptic tables, PowerPoint or excel presentations
• Assisting executives / partners with preparation of training and/or other presentations
• Assisting executives with the drafting of brochures, tenders, proposals, bids)
• Legal translations from English to French and from French to English
• Legal translations from English to Portuguese and from Portuguese to English

Requirements:

• Completed a bachelor’s degree (LLB) or a master’s degree (LLM) in law or equivalent degree from a reputable law school established in one of the following jurisdictions: 
• An Anglophone jurisdiction (South-Africa, Canada, USA, UK, Ireland, Malta, Hong-Kong, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand), 

1. Or a Francophone jurisdiction (Canada, Belgium, France, Luxemburg, Switzerland, Lebanon) 
2. Or a Lusophone jurisdiction (Portugal, Brazil, Macau, Angola or Mozambique).

Advantageous: Academic training completed with another degree in accounting, tax, economics, business administration, commerce, political science, international relations or languages is advantageous.
 

Prior legal training in one or several of the following legal specialisms:

• Public international law
• Private international law 
• International commercial arbitration
• International law of the sea
• International comparative law
• European comparative law
• African comparative law
• Corporate and commercial law
• Competition law
• Property law
• Land law
• Engineering and construction law
• Banking and financial law
• Mining and petroleum law
• Natural resources law
• Energy law
• International trade and competition law
• IP/IT law
• Environmental law
• Employment law
• International taxation
• Corporate taxation
• Resource taxation
• Forensics