Careers.Working at Amara & Partners

Working at Amara & Partners.

A short page for lawyers thinking of joining the firm. What we look for, what the work is, and how to apply.

Lawyers who care about the work itself.

We look for lawyers who care about the work itself: the drafting, the negotiation, the problem that keeps you thinking after you close the laptop. People who are comfortable across civil and common-law frameworks, who want real responsibility on real files, and who would rather be trusted with something difficult than sheltered from it.

What this means in practice

The work moves between civil-law matters on the mainland and common-law practice in the ADGM and DIFC, which means most weeks pull lawyers across two or three legal systems at once. In a single month you might draft on a cross-border share purchase, prepare submissions in an ADGM proceeding, review a PDPL data-sharing agreement for a healthcare operator, and help a family office think through a new holding structure. The matters are not interchangeable, but the standard you bring to each of them is.

Real responsibility on real files.

What partner-led means for you

Every file is led by a partner, which means you are working alongside the partner from the moment of instruction to the close. You draft, they redline. You attend the negotiation, not the recap meeting after it. You receive feedback on your writing in writing, because how an argument is expressed matters as much as the argument itself.

First six months

In your first six months you will be on real files: drafting that goes out, advice that gets relied on, meetings where you are expected to speak. You will be reviewed thoroughly and supported when you need it, but you will not be sheltered from the work. The expectation is that you grow into the standard quickly, because the firm’s reputation lives in the work itself.

What growth looks like here

We measure people on the quality of their writing, the soundness of their judgment, and the way they handle a matter when it gets difficult. The mark of a good lawyer at this firm is not how many files they carry, but how well each one is handled. Promotion follows the work.

How to write to us.

Send your CV with a piece of writing you are proud of: a memo, a brief, a published article, or anything that shows how you think on the page. The form below reaches the partner who reads applications, and we will reply once we have read what you have sent.

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