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Legal Summer Vacation Scheme

Vacation Scheme
Law
Paid
Year groups

Postgraduate

Date of event

July 2026 (2 weeks)

Field

Law

Overview

PwC Legal's flagship vacation scheme: two weeks in PwC's London office across July 2026, rotating between two practice groups inside the firm's multi-disciplinary legal arm.

Structure & format

Legal research, drafting legal documents, attending client meetings, a business assessment, a written exercise and a case law activity. Practice groups can include Corporate, Employment, Tax, Real Estate, IP & Commercial and Financial Services.

Pay & benefits

Paid at a highly competitive London vacation scheme rate.

Eligibility

Postgraduate route only. Law students must have completed their undergraduate law degree plus LPC or SQE by August 2026. Non-law students must have completed an undergraduate degree plus PGDL/MA Law plus LPC or SQE by August 2026. Strong demonstrable interest in business law required.

Application process

Apply via the PwC early careers portal: online application, online assessments, video interview, then the scheme itself which doubles as the training contract assessment.

Competitiveness & scale

Highly oversubscribed. PwC Legal is one of the most direct vac-scheme-to-TC pipelines in the Big Four legal space.

Why this matters

One of the cleanest routes into a PwC Legal training contract. uniquely sits inside a Big Four firm so you see law alongside tax, deals and consulting from day one.

Heads up

Dates can shift each year. Always confirm the live deadline on the provider's own page before you apply.