MAKING YOUR CAREER OUR CAREER

From humble beginnings we have built a vibrant youth culture were our people are engaged and positively encouraged to get involved in every aspect of the business. We adopt an approach which enables our youth to push the boundaries of their experience assume responsibility within a team and engage with our clients and customers alike building social and professional networks with the support needed to do so.

Don’t ever think your education or background will ever act as a barrier – we look at life experience and engagement as much as technical aptitude as teams are made up of lots of different individuals with different skills.

Always minded of our responsibilities to support our people we look to provide continual and constructive feedback through mentoring training and development and like most businesses we are self- aware enough to know that we are on a continuous journey of ourselves learning and getting better at developing our people.

You have been their and done that had good and maybe bad experiences of what good looks like. Within all our businesses and teams you will work be working with leading lawyers and great people.

Our business model enables our people to benefit from scale but work within specialist and independent teams with independent management.

You have the benefit of a group marketing team who can help raise your personal identity and profile within a team environment.

Agility and flexibility are easy for us given both our investment in technology and a culture which is focussed on delivery and outcomes.

Its an honest open and transparent culture for everyone.

Law can at times be a tough business to work in, but it’s also one of the most rewarding and diverse industries to be in. For us – It’s a people business and its why we have human perspective across our teams whether we are working for businesses or on personal matters for individuals.

So if you are asking the question what are we looking for and you have taken the time to look at our site. We look for people:-

• who believe in Team
• Who are solid and self -aware;

• where you cannot fail to see the passion for what they do and what they want to do;
• who are committed to exceptional client and customer service; and
• are relentless in what they do;

We build our teams around meritocracy and performance and not title badge or hierarchy.

We are committed to supporting both traditional and alternative legal career structures for lawyers and recruit both graduate paralegals from University and Junior paralegals as school or college leavers.

We offer a great youth culture – internal and external training programmes – together with numerous opportunities for you to shine and progress a legal career – whatever your age, or your experience you will have the opportunity to make an impression and be an important part of the team and the ability to learn and develop with experienced and leading lawyers.

We only offer training contracts to internal candidates and we do so usually once a year.

For us it’s not just about business needs it is also about loyalty and seeing talent rewarded and developed. We want people to do well.

Our successful candidates are people who:

• Are interested in the law and the business of law and not just the idea of being a lawyer;
• have good social and people skills and strong social networks;

• demonstrate initiative
• are continually looking to improve both technical and client service skills; and
• generally ask a lot of really good questions.

Our Group support teams work across all businesses. They are encouraged to take responsibility and lead and as a business which is continually growing its infrastructure, investing in IT, its marketing team, finance team and administration and document production teams, it’s a vibrant and fundamental part of our story and our future.

We are lucky, our support teams work together in a culture designed to focus on what’s good for our clients and what’s good for our lawyers who they know work on the front line and are driven to make things happen without to much fuss and drama.

We Believe in Balance… but we don’t just see it as work-life balance.

For us Balance is wider, its balance of different skillsets within our business, the balance between doing the job in hand and also understanding the business and engaging with the business you work in,

a balance between both remote working and being with the team in the office the balance between individual and team and a balanced approach to productivity and outcomes.

And yes….. we work hard for clients and each other, with life balance.