We’re proud of who we are and the values we stand for as a firm. We believe in creating a friendly working environment, fostering both professional respect and genuine thoughtful-ness. We also have a strong focus on development, firm citizenship, performance, and pro bono work. Ultimately, we know that your success and ours go hand-in-hand and we’ll do what it takes to enable both.
Career opportunities for you
We are always excited to work with new, talented people and are also proud to have a great number of long-term employees who have chosen to stay and grow their careers with us. We want you to progress and we know there are many paths forward. To help you, our training approach comprises 70% training on the job, 20% from social learning, coaching and mentoring and 10% through formal courses. Our goal is to provide balance, combining an approach where you are able to control your progress by taking responsibility for your own development, with a thoughtful approach to practical experience and access to opportunity.
If you choose a career with us, you will find you work with an interesting and varied group of clients and colleagues. We provide a voice in the firm’s progress through widespread committee involvement and leadership roles. We recognize that everyone in our firm, at every level of experience and in every job role, has something to offer the future success of our firm.
A different approach to the law
We take the time to form real relationships and get to know our clients’ businesses and their goals. We will never just offer a technical legal solution, we will look at how the law can be applied strategically and creatively, and with consideration to the client’s over-arching needs. For that reason, we believe in frequent interaction with clients, even in the earlier stages of your career.
Our relationships are at the heart of everything we do and we think you will find value and meaning in our way of working. Our global footprint and international, collaborative approach, mean we have long understood the benefits of diversity in the workplace. We genuinely enjoy working with and learning from each other. And we strive to create an environment in which we are kind to one another, value openness, and in which everyone feels included.
A global law firm
You will be working with clients who are international in their origin and scope and with col-leagues from across the world. Our outlook is global and yours will be too. There are opportunities to work with other offices within our group and for secondments with international clients.
Diversity, equity and inclusion
Our firm is steered by our five shared values of collaboration, inclusivity, openness, creativity, and professionalism. Our Diversity and Inclusion team is guided by those values and helps to continuously incorporate them across all aspects of the firm. They team up with our lawyers and business professionals to create a workplace that fosters an atmosphere of mutual respect; builds a culture of inclusiveness in which everyone can thrive; promotes equitable treatment when it comes to opportunity for those that fall into historically underrepresented categories; and attracts, develops, retains, and promotes outstanding lawyers and other professionals from all backgrounds.
We have built an organization that combines a top-down approach from leadership with a grassroots approach that centers around respect and support amongst colleagues. Building firm culture such that equity and inclusion is valued among all of our people is absolutely vital to our success. As a result, we seek candidates whose individual qualities, skills, and interests will also enrich and enhance the firm.
Read more about our approach to diversity, equity and inclusion.
Championing responsible business and pro bono
We like to work with purpose, and nowhere is that more obvious than in our extensive pro-bono work and other areas of responsible business. We are focused on a commitment across four key areas of People, Community, Environment, and Governance and Ethics. In our efforts across each of these areas, we strive to create opportunities within the firm and have a positive impact outside of the firm.
We empower our people by creating a values-led, diverse and inclusive culture with wellbeing at its heart and invest in everyone’s future through learning. In the wider world we run volunteer and philanthropic programs developed by our local offices to best serve the needs of the communities around us. We also consistently launch sustainability initiatives. Essentially, we want to use our talents and time for the benefit of others.