Graduate Recruitment
Duration of Articles
GMI offers a two year article contract, irrespective of whether a candidate has completed full time law school.
Exposure to practices
The firm has a rotation system in place whereby candidate attorneys rotate to different legal practices within the firm on a six monthly basis. Rotation is subject to available positions within a practice and dependent on the practice requirements within the firm from time to time.
Salary structure
At GMI, candidate attorneys earn a basic salary with further increments available for the completion of full time law school, having obtained a Master's degree and on a passing the attorneys admission exam, the conveyancing exam and the like.
Retention policy
Although candidate attorneys are not guaranteed appointments as associates on completion of their term of articles, we believe in organically growing our professional talent from within. Many of our attorneys joined the firm as candidate attorneys.
Application for Articles
Our people are our first and foremost pillar of success. That is why it is important that we appoint the right people. If you are an empowered individual seeking to join our GMI team as a candidate attorney, please apply below. Applications need to reach us by the 15 March of each year. Applications received after this date will be consiered for the following year.
If you would like to apply for articles, please submit the following requirements:
- Your full Curriculum Vitae
- Your matric certificate
- Your full academic transcript
- A copy of your Identity Document
- A copy of your driver’s licence
The screening process and interviews will be conducted during April of each year for appointment in the following year. Successful applicants will be contacted during this time and invited for a personal interview.
Please note:
- File size may not exceed 6mb.
- Please remove special characters from your file name. Example: driver's to drivers.