Greenberg Traurig LLP

Overview

Greenberg Traurig is a large global full-service law firm founded in Miami in 1967 that combines a deep US platform with an extensive international network. The firm operates from 51 offices across 15 countries with over 3,200 lawyers worldwide and is widely ranked across Chambers, Best Lawyers and other major legal directories. Known for a pragmatic, entrepreneurial approach to client service, GT emphasises innovation (including early adoption of agentic AI tools) and a strong pro bono and community commitment; the firm is presented on the site as a Magic Circle-classified, global full-service firm with broad industry and cross‑border capabilities.

• Headquarters: Miami
• Founded: 1967
• Lawyers: 3,200
• Trainees: 12
• Offices: 51

Values & Culture

Practice Areas

• Banking & Finance
• Capital Markets
• Corporate & M&A
• Competition & Antitrust
• Data Protection & Privacy
• Dispute Resolution & Litigation
• Employment
• Energy & Natural Resources
• Environment & Planning
• ESG & Sustainability
• Financial Services & Regulation
• Healthcare & Life Sciences
• Infrastructure & Projects
• Insolvency & Restructuring
• Insurance & Reinsurance
• Intellectual Property
• International Arbitration
• Investment Funds
• Media & Entertainment
• Private Equity & Venture Capital
• Real Estate
• Regulatory & Compliance
• Technology & Digital
• White Collar Crime
• Tax

Geographic Focus: Global platform with a strong US base and extensive presence across Europe, Middle East, Latin America and Asia; the firm leverages 51 offices to support cross-border M&A, financing, digital infrastructure, energy and IP work and maintains relationships with preferred firms where it has no office. GT emphasises coordination across its US, European, Middle East and Latin America offices to deliver integrated cross-border advice.

Training Contract

London: a two-year training contract consisting of four six-month seats (four seats x six months). Seats are within shareholder-led practice groups and include transactional and contentious seats; trainees engage with clients from day one, receive continuous mentorship, and may undertake a client secondment from the second year. In other European offices (e.g., Germany), trainees/research associates are offered legal traineeships with an internal 'growinGTalent Starter Kit' and opportunities for elective placements in international offices.

• Starting Salary: £55,000 (first year, London)
• Trainee Intake: 12 (London typically recruits twelve trainees per year)
• Qualification Rate: 50% (latest trainee retention/qualification rate reported)
• Academic Requirements: Minimum A-Level requirement: ABB; minimum degree requirement: 2:1 (or international equivalent). Non-law graduates must complete the PGDL prior to SQE. Applicants who have completed the LPC are accepted (the firm is not asking LPC graduates to also complete SQE 2).
• Application Deadline: 2026-11-30

Seat Options

• Corporate & M&A
• Real Estate
• Dispute Resolution & Litigation
• Banking & Finance
• Employment
• Funds
• Tax
• Regulatory & Compliance

Sponsorship

PGDL grant/maintenance: £17,000 (current maintenance grant for pre‑requisite courses); SQE grant/maintenance: £17,000 (as stated in supplementary data).

SQE Support

The firm provides full sponsorship for the pre-requisite courses prior to commencing the training contract and states the current maintenance grant for both courses is £17,000; the firm requires non-law graduates to complete the PGDL before commencing SQE where applicable.

International Opportunities

Some offices advertise opportunities for elective placements or international elective seats and ad hoc international secondments; London notes the opportunity for a client secondment from year two. LegalCheek supplementary data reports a 0% chance of secondment abroad for trainees overall.

Client Secondments

The London programme offers the opportunity to undertake a client secondment from the second year. Supplementary data indicates c.31% chance of client secondment.

Mentorship

Mentoring and support are delivered through the ECO team, local mentoring networks and practice-group shareholder mentors; GTWI and other affinity groups run mentoring and sponsorship programmes. Trainees are assigned to shareholder-led groups and receive continuous supervision and mentoring.

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Programmes & Schemes

Notable Matters

What Greenberg Traurig LLP Looks For

Key Competencies

• Commercial awareness
• Intellectual curiosity
• Initiative and entrepreneurship
• Resilience
• Teamwork and collaboration
• Excellent communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Client focus

Evidence Signals

• Relevant commercial or transactional work experience (internships, paralegal roles)
• Pro bono or clinic involvement
• Commercial awareness demonstrated through discussions of deals or sector trends
• International experience or language skills for global roles
• Demonstrable resilience and examples of leadership or sustained commitment (e.g., running societies, sustained volunteering)

Benefits & Wellbeing

• First year trainee salary: £55,000
• Second year trainee salary: £60,000
• PGDL / maintenance grant: £17,000
• SQE grant / maintenance: £17,000
• 25 days annual leave
• Life insurance
• Income protection
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Cycle to work scheme
• Private medical insurance (PMI)
• Pension
• Eye care
• Flexible internal secondment opportunities and client secondments (London: client secondment from year two)
• Pro bono and volunteering opportunities
• Comprehensive internal training and mentoring programmes
• Annual target hours: No targets

Wellbeing

Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), mental health and wellbeing events, affinity group support, pro bono engagement and community volunteering programmes.

Awards & Recognition

• No. 1 - number of attorneys listed, The Best Lawyers in America®, 2008-2027
• No. 1 - number of overall first‑tier rankings and most first‑tier metropolitan rankings, Best Law Firms®, 2011-2024
• No. 3 - Law360 400 (largest U.S. firms by headcount), 2019-2026
• No. 7 - NLJ 500, 2026
• 880+ lawyer and firm rankings in Chambers Guides worldwide (2025-2026)
• No. 4 Firm Overall, Leopard Law Firm Index, 2023
• Multiple 'Practice Group of the Year' and sector awards from Law360 and other publications (Real Estate, Construction, Hospitality, Products Liability, Media & Entertainment across various years)

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

The firm emphasises inclusive recruitment and equal opportunity globally; GT states it is committed to creating a workplace free of discrimination and harassment and runs affinity groups, mentoring, and training programmes. GT Europe maintains a European Offices Privacy Notice and the firm highlights pro bono and community commitments (including long‑term sponsorship of Equal Justice Works Fellows).

• Engagement, Culture & Opportunity (ECO) team
• DiversAbility (Disability‑focused Affinity Group)
• GAIN (African Diaspora Inclusion Network)
• GTAAG (Asian Affinity Group)
• GTWI (Greenberg Traurig Women’s Initiative)
• LGBTQ+ Affinity Group
• SomosGT (Latino Affinity Group)
• Veterans@GT
• Affinity group mentoring and business development initiatives

Pro Bono

GT’s Global Pro Bono Program: long-term sponsor of Equal Justice Works; through the Holly Skolnick Fellowship Foundation GT has invested over $17 million to support 217 EJW Fellows, providing 720,000+ attorney hours and work across 135+ nonprofit host organisations and 30 issue areas (program figures reported on the firm site). The firm states it is committed to equal access to justice and highlights multiple pro bono awards and recognitions.

Innovation

GT has a formal innovation and AI agenda, participating in multi-year product development with vendor partners and deploying agentic AI tools firmwide under a governance framework emphasising responsible use, data protection and lawyer oversight. Innovation is embedded in practice groups (legal tech pilots, knowledge integrations with Westlaw/Practical Law, and practice-specific tools) with trainees exposed to tech-enabled workflows and firmwide knowledge management systems.

• Deployment of CoCounsel Legal (Thomson Reuters agentic AI) across the firm
• Integration with Brief Builder, Westlaw and Practical Law (as part of CoCounsel rollout)
• Innovation & Artificial Intelligence Group
• Corporate Transparency Act Task Force
• GT TechVenture Views blog
• Digital Infrastructure Industry Group
• RE-STRUC (Real Estate Restructuring multidisciplinary team)

Quick Application Angles

• Highlight the firm’s global platform and cross‑border experience — reference its 51 offices and ability to coordinate multi‑jurisdictional transactions (e.g., CEE real estate work such as the Pestka sale) when explaining your commercial interest.
• Demonstrate awareness of GT’s innovation agenda — reference the firm’s deployment of CoCounsel Legal and its responsible‑AI governance to show you are commercially and technologically informed.
• Mention GT’s pro bono commitment (Equal Justice Works / Holly Skolnick Fellowship Foundation) and, if relevant, include pro bono experience or public‑interest motivations in your application.
• Use the London training contract structure (four six‑month seats; opportunity for a client secondment from year two) to explain which seats you want and why — link your seat preferences to GT practice areas such as Corporate, Real Estate, Litigation or Banking & Finance.
• Play to GT’s strengths in training and partner approachability (trainee insider grades A for training and partner approachability) — emphasise examples where you learned quickly from supervisors or contributed meaningfully on team projects.