Mills Oakley Clerkship Application
National mid-tier firm delivering partner-level access across Australia.
Program Overview
- Structure: Clerkship program with rotation through multiple practice groups - Mentoring: Assigned partner and associate mentors throughout the program - Development: Real legal work on client matters with structured feedback - Pathway: Clerkship regularly leads to graduate offers
Practice Areas
Corporate/M&A, Property, Construction, Dispute Resolution, Employment, Insurance, Workplace Health & Safety
Locations
- QLD
- NSW
- VIC
- ACT
Firm Values
- - Identity: National Australian law firm founded in 1864 by John Scott Mills — over 160 years of continuous practice
- - Identity: 170 partners and 900+ staff across seven offices: Melbourne
- Sydney
- Brisbane
- Perth
- Canberra
- Adelaide
- and Darwin
- - Identity: 24+ specialist practice areas serving ASX Top 200 companies
- mid-sized corporates
- government
- and not-for-profit clients
- - Values: Accessible culture
- technical excellence
- and competitive pricing — consistently cited by clients in formal feedback sessions
- - Values: Committed to reconciliation through a formal Reconciliation Action Plan with active engagement with First Nations Australians
- - Values: 13 consecutive years of double-digit revenue and profit growth since 2004 — sustained commercial performance at scale
- - Culture: Everyday Justice — Australia's first law firm-run not-for-profit law firm
- launched January 2021 from all Mills Oakley offices
- - Culture: First Australian law firm to launch a dedicated in-house startup accelerator (2016)
- embedding a culture of legal innovation
- - Culture: Regular client feedback sessions to continuously refine service levels
- 'easy-to-use advice and absolute transparency' as core commitments
- - Differentiator: Australasian Law Awards Law Firm of the Year — winner in 2017 and 2024
- - Differentiator: 2024 Chambers and Partners Diversity and Inclusion Award — Pro Bono: Outstanding Firm
- - Differentiator: Everyday Justice embeds pro bono as operational infrastructure — the only firm of scale to run its own not-for-profit legal practice