Company Description
Clifford Chance is one of the world's leading law firms, helping clients achieve their goals by combining the highest global standards with local expertise. The firm has unrivalled scale and depth of legal resources across the three key markets of the Americas, Asia Pacific and Europe and focuses on the core areas of commercial activity: capital markets; corporate and M&A; finance and banking; real estate; tax; pensions and employment; litigation and dispute resolution.
In France, with 44 partners and over 200 lawyers, we are recognised as one of France's leading law firms. In 2022 we were awarded Europe Law Firm of the Year at the Chambers Europe Awards for Excellence. Our clients include leading French and international corporates, banks and financial institutions.
Job Description
The Paris office is looking for a full-time intern to join its Communications team for a period of 6 months.
Our teams work closely with our global network in order to offer a perfectly integrated service.
The intern will assist the Communications Team (made up of 4 people) in bringing external and internal communications projects to fruition for the firm:
- Organising events: cocktail events, dinners, client seminars, webinars, partnerships… (logistical organization, management of internal teams and maintaining a good relationship with suppliers);
- Creating content and publishing on social media (LinkedIn, X, Instagram, YouTube, etc.)
- Drafting pamphlets, brochures, social media postcards and adverts in line with the Company's visual identity (working closely with the graphic team);
- Press relations (media analysis, press releases, responding to journalists etc.);
- Internal communications (intranet news, newsletters, etc.)
- Diversity & Inclusion and Pro Bono initiatives
- Translations.
Qualifications
- You are a full-time university student, studying French (English is your mother tongue);
- You have a good command of software tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.);
Qualities required: adaptability, resourcefulness, a hard work ethic, strong interpersonal skills, organisational skills, creativity and a team spirit.
You are interested in communication and curious to discover the different aspects of the field in an international law firm.
Availability: from January 2026 - 6 month-long internship.
Additional Information
Equal Opportunities
At Clifford Chance, we understand that our true asset is our people. Inclusion is good for our team and their families, our firm and society.
We are committed to treating all employees and applicants fairly and equally regardless of their gender, gender identity and expression, marital or civil partnership status, race, colour, national or ethnic origin, social or economic background, disability, religious belief, sexual orientation, or age. This applies to recruitment and selection, terms and conditions of employment including pay, promotion, training, transfer and every other aspect of employment.
We have a variety of flourishing employee networks. These networks are a place for colleagues to share experiences and advocate for change wherever they see an opportunity for improvement.
Our goal is to deliver an equality of opportunity, an equality of aspiration and an equality of experience to everyone who works in our firm.
Find out more about our inclusive culture here.
Top Skills
What We Do
We are one of the world's largest law firms with significant depth and range of resources across five continents. As a single, fully integrated, global partnership, we pride ourselves on our approachable, collegiate and team based way of working.
We always strive to exceed the expectations of our clients, which include corporates from all the commercial and industrial sectors, governments, regulators, trade bodies and not for profit organisations. We provide them with the highest quality advice and legal insight, which combines the Firm's global standards with in-depth local expertise.
Many of the world's leading organisations look to Clifford Chance not just for legal expertise but for advice on business critical issues
