Students

If you would like to apply for our student program (Junior Student, Research Student or Trainee), please send your application to karriere@dorda.at.

A curriculum vitae, a letter of motivation, and a current transcript of records are required. If you are still in the early stages of your studies, you can also send us your high school diploma. 

You don't have to have an A average to qualify for an internship with us. Mixed grades are perfectly fine. Let us know in your motivational letter why you@DORDA is a perfect fit for you and DORDA.

Previous experience is not necessary for our student program, although it may of course be an advantage for you personally.

DORDA needs people who enjoy delivering clarity. As the name suggests, your motivation letter should help us to understand your motivation for applying for an internship at DORDA and, ideally, convince us that you@DORDA is perfectly right for you.

You can apply at any time, but please take note of our application deadlines to ensure that your application arrives on time (1 May for the next winter semester, 1 October for the next summer semester and 15 February for the next holiday period).

Please indicate the period and the position you are applying for (junior student, research student or trainee). Please include a telephone number in your application, so that we can call to arrange an appointment for an interview.

If you have any questions about our student programme, the application or the application process, please contact Katharina Binder (karriere@dorda.at or +43-1-533 4795-410).

First things first: we look forward to seeing you! Casual business attire is perect (gentlemen need not wear a tie and jacket).

Trainees work directly as members of a practice group. We will take note of your preferred areas of law at your interview and try to take this into account. The actual allocation is down to us, as there is only one trainee position per practice group.

Junior students support the office's daily routine with minor research work and a variety of other tasks, mainly in administration, such as running errands to courts and the authorities, editing lecture notes and presentations, proofreading contracts, preparing seminars and events etc. You will work in a team with other junior students and will get to know the entire law firm.

Research students conduct legal research for all practice groups (e.g. researching relevant literature and decisions, preparing legal questions and darfting short memos). They are supported and guided by our experienced librarian Carmen Böhm.

Trainees work directly in one of our practice groups (drafting pleadings, correspondence, contracts, memos, carrying out legal research, attending meetings and negotiations, assistance with publications). Trainees are integrated into the team in the same way as a newly qualified junior associate and can expand their knowledge and put it into practice.

We currently offer internships (traineeships) in the following areas of law:

• Emloyment Law
• Banking and Capital Markets Law / Financing
• Corporate Law
• Commercial, Agency and Distribution Law
• Real Estate and Construction Law
• IT/IP, Data Protection and E-Commerce
• Competition Law / Antitrust Law
• Life Sciences / Pharmaceutical Law
• M&A
• Public Law
• Arbitration
• Insurance and Insolvency Law
• White-Collar Crime
• Litigation