Australia - Clerkship

Applications are open to penultimate and final year students studying a law degree or Juris Doctor. To be eligible, you should have sufficient lawful working rights to work in Australia during the period of your clerkship. Dates of clerkships will vary per state.

You'll be asked to upload a CV and academic transcript as well as complete several short answer questions.

Our application lets you showcase your talent by sharing why you want to be a lawyer at Ashurst Perkins Coie.

As part of our graduate recruitment process, you will complete an online assessment evaluating your skills, behaviours, and abilities. We use psychometric assessment to ensure fair objective evaluation and to give you the opportunity to demonstrate your potential alongside your experience. Our assessment provider, SHL, offers practice questions and guides to help you prepare. Please focus on behaviour-based assessment, inductive, deductive and numerical reasoning, and biodata practice assessments. Additional practice tests are available when you log into your user profile.

You can learn about the types of questions you may be asked in the assessment here.

We will invite clerkship applicants to come to Ashurst Perkins Coie, meet our people and learn more about our culture.

Our early careers team will send you details during the early stages of the recruitment process.

You will meet with our partners, lawyers and members of our early careers team. We ask competency-based questions that give insight into the behaviours we value at Ashurst Perkins Coie.

We give you the opportunity to ask more about us too – our interviews are a "two-way street".

We are committed to making all stages of our recruitment process accessible to candidates with disabilities or long-term health conditions. If you consider yourself to have a disability or a long-term health condition, please feel able to be open about this at any point during the recruitment process. If you are not sure what adjustments you require, we will work with you to establish the most suitable adjustments at each stage of the recruitment process. Please note that our online application form includes a section which allows you to advise us of any extenuating circumstances that are relevant for us to consider when reviewing your application form.

Please get in touch if you would like to discuss any queries relating to your disability or long-term health condition and the recruitment process. Any information disclosed will remain strictly confidential.

Our applicant resource hub is here to answer your questions. Still can't find the answer? Contact our early careers team.