Stibbe can truly fast-track your career
Stibbe can truly fast-track your career
We understand that accelerating one’s career means different things to different people. What does it mean to you? Does it mean getting promoted? Advancing career development and skills? Becoming an expert in a specific area? We want to hear you and learn all about your aspirations. We can guide you to discover your potential so that you can take your career to new heights.
Your learning process at Stibbe is guaranteed to be enriching. You will realise that Stibbe's commitment to your growth and development is one of the firm's core values.
We enable you to craft your mission
Stibbe will help you to build your sense of purpose as a lawyer, achieve mastery in what you do, find autonomy, and build trusted relationships at work. You’ll have many opportunities to assist major corporate clients, be part of exciting transactions, and advise on high-profile matters. You’ll learn new things from business development to leadership skills that will give you a strong foundation so you can advance and lead in your career. Because when you have purpose, passion, and empathy, you can excel at what you enjoy.
We let you build your personal success model
Stibbe will coach you to develop a growth mindset that will enable you to learn, adapt, and flourish throughout your career. Your most powerful form of learning is from experience and observation. We’ll show you how you can turn your work experience at Stibbe into a structured journey of discovery that meets your needs. A designated partner will be your mentor. This person will coach you not only for performance but also for development to bring out the best in you.
We empower you
Whatever your background, Stibbe is a law firm with an enabling environment for you to acquire the ability to make strategic decisions, to voice your opinions, and to participate fully in all kinds of opportunities, whether they relate to your career advancement or personal development. We foster healthy team culture and invest in our people. We will equip you with the mindset, tools, and language of communication to succeed as an individual and as a team with others.
Stibbe Grow
Immerse yourself in all the in-house learning and development programmes run by Stibbe Grow. You’ll develop yourself in every way: professionally, emotionally, mentally, technically. And you’ll learn new, indispensable skills for all your different roles: as a lawyer, team player, client advisor, potential leader. These skills will enable you to always be on top of your game.
High-profile matters
High-profile, sophisticated, complex, multi-jurisdictional,… These are the types of matters that you’ll certainly get to work on at Stibbe. For some of them, you’ll be cooperating with various teams from different practice groups and offices. You’ll also be handling local and international projects from a wide range of sectors. Many could even open several doors of opportunities, regardless of their size and complexity.
Personal coaching
You’ll have a designated partner who will be your mentor. This person will coach you not only for performance but also for development. Your mentor will give feedback directly and gladly listen to you. We acknowledge your answers, your opinions, criticisms, how you feel, and how you’re coping. The Stibbe coaching method will certainly help you to take your legal career to the next level, preparing you to ascend the ranks and become a senior lawyer or partner, corporate leader, or entrepreneur who creates impact.
Diverse, positive, enabling environment
Stibbe provides high-quality, efficient legal services to clients to meet their ever increasing needs and requirements. At the same time, we maintain—and constantly improve—flexible working schemes, inspire creativity, promote personal development, encourage work-life balance, and create fun for everyone in a diverse and inclusive culture. We celebrate progress and recognise success. And we foster individual as well as organisational resilience so that we can adapt to changes, technology, and society on a long term in order to thrive in life and work.
Greater opportunities
The Stibbe MBA Highlights Programme is unique. Elected associates attend this two-week programme at the renowned INSEAD business school in Fontainebleau, where they learn the main subjects of management, leadership, finance, and economics.
Secondments can give you global exposure. We offer client secondments and international secondments at any of our Stibbe offices or other top-tier law firms in our global network.
Being the trusted advisor to multinational companies in high-profile transactions and matters gives you international exposure. You'll be recognised for your invaluable role, and this will lead to opportunities to work abroad and explore new countries and cultures.
Vacancies
We thrive
Our vibrant energy is everywhere and in everything we do: our offices, our firm-wide events, learning environments, social gatherings. Because we know how much success hinges on being part of a collaborative team and building close friendships with coworkers. Because we know that work requires from us continuous human interaction, creativity, personal service, and intellectual concentration. And having a vibrant atmosphere will certainly enable us to flourish and keep our minds and body healthy and happy.
We embrace
We welcome you with open arms. We commit ourselves to creating a company culture that is diverse, inclusive, and supportive. Because this enables talented individuals from various backgrounds to further develop themselves. We accept you for who you are, and we’re all ears when it comes to your opinions and suggestions. Because we believe our differences should bring us closer together to help each other to grow and become better, more successful individuals.
We teach & mentor
Not only do we teach you by focusing on the how (how to apply your analytical thinking, how to be attentive to clients’ needs, how to use your newly discovered potential, etc.), but we also mentor you by focusing on the why (why do you want to be a lawyer or partner, why should we formulate certain strategies, why should you acquire specific skills, etc.). We share with you our practical insight, wisdom, and experience to encourage you to express yourself and develop your own skills. Most importantly—to discover your own potential so that you can perform your best in everything you do.
We focus
Every Stibbe member has one thing in common: we focus on achieving optimal results for our clients and helping them in the best possible way. And we focus on fulfilling our clients’ needs and exceeding their expectations. We do this with passion, determination, and commitment. These factors drive us to find solutions and overcome challenges in original, creative, innovative—and sometimes even groundbreaking—ways.
We don’t stop
We constantly strive to be the best internationally-oriented law firm in the Benelux. No matter is too complex or too challenging for us. Working at Stibbe means collaborating with team members from other departments and even other jurisdictions to provide the highest quality service to our clients. We handle high-profile, multi-jurisdictional matters for local and international clients.
Life@Stibbe
We understand that you spend a lot of your time at work, and we are committed to ensuring that your professional life environment is positive, inclusive, empowering, and worthwhile.
Stibbe’s company culture revolves around these key values: inclusion, social engagement, health, passion, integrity, impact, innovation. From tangibles (our infrastructure and facilities) to intangibles (inclusive and empowering work environment, team spirit, mentorship, physical and mental guidance), our culture goes far beyond just the vibes in the office. At Stibbe, you’ll definitely be invited to take part in all our ongoing and regularly scheduled activities, programmes, workshops, and events that enable you to develop a happy and healthy mind and body. Because we practice what we preach: we have fun too.