We offer summer internships for undergraduate law students in their fourth year and postgraduate law students in their first year in the Moscow Office of the international law firm Debevoise & Plimpton LLP.

At Debevoise & Plimpton LLP you will be joining a dynamic, first-rate team of professionals with a reputation for using their extensive knowledge, skills and experience to provide high quality legal support to prominent Russian and international establishments.

Successful candidates for summer internship positions would:

• be undergraduate law students in their fourth year and postgraduate law students in their first year only
• possess top academic results in civil and private law
• be highly proficient in spoken and written English

Participation in law student conferences, competitions and any other extra-curricular activities and publications relating to law would be a plus.

To apply for a summer internship position, please submit the following documents to Moscow-recruit@debevoise.com by 15 April:

• your CV in English
• an application letter in English stating why you have chosen to pursue a career in the legal profession and would like to secure a summer internship position at Debevoise
• a scanned copy of your student record book or academic transcript
• copies of any awards or certificates you have received in connection with any student conferences, competitions or any other extra-curricular activities and copies of publications by you (if any).

You will have the opportunity to meet representatives of the Moscow office of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP during the Career Days at the following educational institutions: Moscow State University, Moscow State Institute of International Relations and the Higher School of Economics National Research University. You may also meet with Debevoise & Plimpton LLP partner Alyona Kucher at Moscow State University where she lectures as an associate professor in the civil law department.

Our interview process includes a law test and in-person interviews. The selection process takes approximately one month.

Any announcement or invitation to participate in a test or interview will not constitute an offer of employment.