Slater and Gordon Clerkship Application
Fighting for the rights of everyday Australians since 1935
Program Overview
- Criterion: Final year law students or recent graduates who have not yet commenced PLT - Criterion: Demonstrated interest in Personal Injury, General Law, or Class Actions - Criterion: Alignment with firm strategy, history and values - Mentoring: Exposure to multiple practice areas through structured rotations - Mentoring: Integration with Client Engagement Team during rotations - Development: Induction week covering firm strategy, history and values - Development: Three 6-month rotations across Personal Injury, General Law, and Class Actions - Development: All PLT costs covered by firm - Development: Study leave provided during PLT - Pathway: 18-month Graduate Program leading to potential ongoing roles - Pathway: Regional office experience across Victoria and New South Wales
Locations
- VIC
Firm Values
- - Identity: Founded 1935 in Melbourne
- national firm championing rights of everyday Australians
- - Identity: Multi-office operation across Victoria and New South Wales
- - Values: Integrity
- - Values: Excellence
- - Values: Justice
- - Culture: Social justice-driven
- fighting for clients' rights and entitlements
- - Culture: Workers
- unions
- and everyday Australians at the firm's core
- - Culture: Giving back integral to business identity
- - Differentiator: Pioneered No Win No Fee model for affordable legal access
- - Differentiator: Only Australian firm offering free social work service to clients
- - Differentiator: Passionate commitment to pro bono public interest legal work
Awards & Recognition
- - Award: Finalist, Women in Law Awards – group category (Lawyers Weekly, 2025)
- - Award: Multiple individual lawyer finalists, Lawyers Weekly Australian Law Awards (2024–2025)
- - Award: Multiple individual lawyer finalists, 30 Under 30 (Lawyers Weekly, 2024–2025)
Community & Pro Bono
- Program: Community Fund - Focus: Healthy living, disease/disability, inequality and disadvantage - Initiative: Grants to community groups - Impact: Established 2001; ongoing community support - Partner: Community groups - Program: Asbestos Research Fund - Focus: Asbestos-related disease - Initiative: Funding research into asbestos-related conditions - Impact: Established 2004; advancing medical research - Partner: Research institutions - Program: Health Projects and Research Fund - Focus: Broad health research - Initiative: Funding health research projects - Impact: Established 2014; expanded health research support - Partner: Research organizations - Program: Free Social Work Service - Focus: Client support and wellbeing - Initiative: First and only Australian law firm offering free social work services to clients - Impact: Operating since 2009; integrated client support - Partner: Internal social work team - Program: Community Legal Centre Volunteering - Focus: Access to justice - Initiative: Lawyer volunteers at community legal centres - Impact: Direct legal assistance to underserved communities - Partner: Community legal centres - Program: Pro Bono Client Services - Focus: Vulnerable populations and community support - Initiative: Legal services for people with severe disabilities, charities, community and indigenous groups - Impact: Targeted support for disadvantaged groups - Partner: Disability organizations, charities, indigenous groups - Program: No Win No Fee Model - Focus: Access to justice - Initiative: Pro bono-aligned contingency fee model - Impact: Removes financial barriers to legal representation - Partner: Individual clients