Internships at Philip Lee for LLM Students at Maynooth Law

Wednesday, February 18, 2015 - 00:00

Philip Lee is offering two six-month internship opportunities to students studying Public Procurement Law at Maynooth University.

Maynooth University Department of Law is delighted to collaborate with Philip Lee on our LLM (Global Legal Studies) and LLM (International Business Law) programmes.The top-performing students on the Public Procurement Law module, which is available to students on both LLM programmes, will be given the opportunity to interview for one of two six-month internships at Philip Lee.

About Philip Lee

Philip Lee was established in 1993 and has become one of Ireland’s most dynamic law firms. With offices in Dublin, Brussels, and San Francisco, the firm provides first-class legal services in key business sectors including procurement, PPP and construction, development, waste, telecoms, energy, technology, marketing, IP, media, and entertainment.  The firm was however founded on the provision of procurement and contract law expertise, and it remains the backbone of its practice.

Philip Lee has considerable experience in PPP projects, being the current advisor to the National Development Finance Agency in relation to Schools Bundle 4 and 5 PPP projects. It considers procurement strategy for complex infrastructure projects to be one of its core strengths and has the largest procurement team in Ireland and the most extensive experience of Design Build, Design Build Operate, Design Build Finance Operate, and PPP projects.

The internship programme is designed to give those students on either the LLM (Global Legal Studies) or LLM (International Business Law) who are interested in a career in public procurement an opportunity to work with Philip Lee for six months as part of the firm's procurement team. This opportunity will be available to students who achieve the highest grades in the procurement law module. 

The internship will give students great insight into the daily workings of a corporate law firm and a chance to experience public procurement law ‘in action’.