
Bright Futures Programmes
Our two Bright Futures programmes aim to support groups currently under-represented in the legal sector by giving them an opportunity to gain insight into life at an international law firm. On this five day programme you’ll get insight into how we help our clients achieve their commercial goals, work with experienced lawyers and have the opportunity to progress onto our summer vacation scheme. And we’ll pay you a salary for the week, plus travel and accommodation expenses.
Bright Futures is our pipeline programme for the London vacation scheme. Participants will be considered for a place on our 2026 vacation scheme and assessed via an assessment centre on day 5 of the programme.
We are now closed for applications but please join our talent community to be the first to hear about when our roles go live in Autumn 2025.
Programme Structure
Our Bright Futures programme is a hybrid five days long programme, so you’ll need to be able to commit to that amount of time. This will include both time in the office and time working from home. The programme will be taking place from Monday 7th April 2025 - Friday 11th April 2025.
Here’s a summary of what you can expect to encounter during your time on our bright futures programmes:
Let's take it step by step
Our strengths-based recruitment process is based on fairness and equity. It’s designed to help us identify what motivates you to work at a city law firm, over your learnt experiences, and helps you show us the most authentic version of yourself. Here’s how it works:
Eligibility
This programme is for first-year law and penultimate-year non-law students.
Please note: law students on a four-year course should apply in their second year.
Candidates must have attended a state / non-fee-paying school AND meet at least one of the following criteria:
- You were eligible for free school meals (you do not have to have received them).
- Your household income was lower than roughly £21,000 when you were about aged 14.
- You grew up in a household where no parent/guardian had attended university or higher education (you are still eligible if your parents/guardians went to university as a mature student, and if a sibling went to university).
- The occupation of your highest-paid parent or guardian when you were about aged 14 was:
technical and craft occupations (e.g motor mechanic, plumber, printer, electrician, gardener, train driver) or
routine, semi-routine manual and service occupations (e.g. postal worker, machine operative, security guard, caretaker, farm worker, catering assistant, sales assistant, HGV driver, cleaner, porter, waiter/waitress) or unemployed. - You spent time in local authority care.
- You are or have been a carer.
- You had refugee or asylum seeker status as a child.
- You have experienced homelessness.
- You consider yourself to be from a lower socio-economic background.
Please note we will be using Rare’s contextual recruitment system, built with fairness and equality. We also take into account any mitigating circumstances.
Candidates must be of black heritage background (this includes mixed black heritage).
If you are eligible for Access and Black Talent, please apply for our Black Talent programme. We can only consider ONE application.
You do NOT need to have previous law experience, but you should be on track for a 2:1 degree, be commercially minded and able to tell us why you think you would be a good fit for Clyde & Co.
Please note we will be using Rare’s contextual recruitment system, built with fairness and equality. We also take into account any mitigating circumstances.