//Situations and Vacancies

BACFI is happy to advertise appropriate vacancies and requests for placement. Contact the BACFI office for further details.

Internship requests and opportunities

BACFI has received the following job announcement:

Corporate Counsel (Temporary Position - 12 months) - Sorin Group  For further details contact the assistant to the General Counsel at marianna.culosi@sorin.com.

BACFI has received the following requests from young lawyers seeking short term internships:

Candidate 1 - She is a Mphil/PhD student at University College London, working in competition law. Her research is about the interaction between corporate governance and competition law. She is also interested in the evolution of the boundary between markets and companies, and how competition policy should address it.  She will be doing a 3 month paid internship at Linklaters in its competition section from January 2011 and thereafter would be very interested in gaining practical legal experience within a company where corporate governance and competition requirements most interact. Click here for her CV.

Candidate 2 - She is bilingual (French and English), studying for an LLM in international arbitration and trade and is looking for a 3 month (paid) internship from June 2011 in London in a law firm or an institution which handles Arbitration. Click here for her CV.

Candidate 3 - Francesca, who is fluent in English and Italian and has also a little Arabic, is looking for an internship during Summer 2011 with a firm that undertakes (or experiences!) professional negligence work.  She is currently on the LPC course at the College of Law. Click here for her CV.

   Tips on EU Vacancies from an Insider

 To apply for any vacancies on the following website: http://europa.eu/epso/apply/news/index_en.htm you will need to take a test at the European Personnel Selection Office (Cannon Street) that administers the concours.  Brief information about the test can be found here: http://europa.eu/epso/index_en.htm.  The test is sat in either English, French or German but you will also need to have a "thorough" knowledge of one of the other 23 languages of the EU.  That does not mean fluent but would require at least good A-level standard, and preferably better.

Note that passing the exam does not get you a job, it just makes you eligible to apply to the Director Generals for a post.  Where you see a reference to an AD or AST level that indicates the level of seniority from 1 to 16.  A university graduate would expect to go in at grade 5 and work their way up.  Head of Unit starts at grade 9 and Director at 14.

See the EU Careers brochure for more information.

Forthcoming selection exercises 2012

Below is the programme of selection exercises for 2012. Please be aware that the scheduled advertisement dates for these selection exercises are provisional and subject to change*.

Application forms will not be made available for these exercises until the launch date.

*The selection exercise programme is agreed with the Ministry of Justice every year and comprises the essential selection exercises needed to fill judicial vacancies forecast by Her Majesty's Court Service, Tribunals Service and other tribunals.

To find out more, please visit: http://www.judicialappointments.gov.uk/selection-process/selection-exercises/forthcoming.htm.

Deputy District Judge (Civil)
Expected to Launch : February 2012
Number of vacancies: 76