Training & Personal Development at Clayton Utz

We have an ongoing graduate training program which oversees the development of graduates for the first few years of their career. This is also followed by lawyer training programs coupled with continued training and access to previous sessions

They provide so much training, almost too much

Informal training is where it all occurs and the training at this firm could not be better - the senior lawyers do an incredible job of imparting their knowledge if you are willing to learn.

There are many sessions for skills development and also general topic seminars about politics and legal developments. The support is ongoing through hands on training by partners and lawyers and also teams across the firm that host training sessions for all employees.

The formal training provided is quite good and constant through the entire graduate program. I think the more informal training could be improved (i.e. at a team-specific level there could be a better mechanisms for feedback and learning to take place as tasks are being completed)

Lots of training, team specific. Good mentoring and buddy program.

So much training. The professional development opportunities here are very broad and enriching.

Constant and targeted training is provided.

Lots of opportunities for training and development. Lots of formal trainings. Informal / continual development from individual partners could be better. My team is great with training informally but I have previously been under partners who do not care about development of juniors as much as they should.

The structured training is good. Sometimes people are too busy to provide training while getting involved in matters, which can make a junior feel unnecessarily stressed about doing work because they don't want to bother anyone with questions.

Great library training from Janice, i generally touch base with Janice every few months for refresher training. The buddy program is great and has been instrumental in my success.

They provide great practical legal training. More training needs to be included at a firm wide level about health and wellbeing and establishing a flexible, supportive and positive workplace. There is too much disconnect between grads and partners when it comes to training and education. Obviously, on a practical level the training is not the same, but I think partners and grads and all the lawyers in between need to do team training together which promotes getting to know each other and learn together and establish positive inter team practices.

The training program in Sydney was fantastic. When it comes to practice group training an all day/half day session would be preferable considering the 1 hour sessions don't keep us engaged compared to a half/full day session.

Legal foundations modules are very helpful. Library and IT training are excellent. Mentor program and also in-team coach and supervisor /buddy programs. Work very well, though can work better or worse depending on the buddy/mentor/coach allocated.

CLEs and CPDs have been informative, formal training sessions have all been helpful, probably a bit of repetition on the "writing for your audience" piece but perhaps seniors are still finding this necessary based on work received, grad excellence program probably needs to be tweaked to be a bit more relevant/tangible (the sessions we have had have been too surface level and general to be truly useful in terms of skills, strategies, implementing behaviour changes etc)

We have many upskilling programs for technology and technical ability in the law. Graduates have several sessions a week on their chosen practice area.

We have continual legal education and foundations of law training sessions, amongst other ad hoc sessions - which are fantastic

The company pays for and hosts PLT, and there is about one and a half weeks of local and national induction. After that, you get specialised training in your practice group through the Legal Foundations Program. There is also IT and other training you can sign up for. On the job training will happen naturally in your specific practice group. I personally found all of this very helpful - the training sessions were good introductions to specific concepts such as Competition Law and Litigation that I hadn't learned at uni, and I was then able to apply those skills and learning when given specific tasks by my coach and other seniors.

The training at CU is far superior to training at other firms, from what I have heard from my colleagues in other firms. We also have excellent resources and highly qualified people training us which is highly beneficial.

Good training, particularly research training.