Legal Cheek Most List 2019

The authoritative student guide for the UK`s leading commercial law firms has gone live with its 2019 version. But the hardest part certainly has to be the apprenticeship contract itself, where competition for seats and, ultimately, for newly qualified lawyer positions can break friendships. Will the chemistry of accepting trainees withstand such strong forces? At the other end of the list is BLM, which has the earliest average vacation length this year. The young lawyers in the insurance-focused firm usually leave at 5:30 p.m. The second earliest vacation hour is Hewitsons at 5:43 p.m. and Irwin Mitchell comes in third with an average vacation time of 5:49 p.m. All three companies are headquartered outside London, in Manchester, Cambridge and Sheffield respectively, which is the case for most previous holiday periods. Grab a CT at one of these companies and you could be at home grabbing Tipping Point credits! Sponsored by LawCare, the charity that supports and promotes mental health and wellbeing in the legal community in the UK and Ireland. Sponsored by LPC Law, a specialist law firm focused on providing high quality advocacy and clerk services to clients across England and Wales. Unsurprisingly, the high-end of this year`s list is dominated by the London offices of US-based companies, with only one member of the magic circle in the top ten.

The so-called “white shoes” companies are synonymous with cultures where long hours are considered the norm, but where wages in monetary law are quite inflated. With the “vlawgers” and legal influencers who bring the law to life “Embarrassing or not, I spend most weekends with the other interns in my cohort – some of whom have become my closest friends!” The expanded lists now include 90 companies – each with Legal Cheek View and Insider Scorecard Ranking “As a student with a disability, I find the list of companies most useful for understanding the culture of different companies. The hours section is particularly useful for understanding what is normal and expected, and how it can fit into a work-life balance, or for managing work as a person with a disability. It is also extremely useful to see information about subsidies and salaries and all open applications in one place. It`s so much easier than browsing the pages of individual companies and gives a more holistic view of each business, including reviews. It`s very easy to read and a great resource for researching different companies. Sponsored by Bar Squared, a legal technology company and developer of LEX, a leading software solution for lawyers. The 2019 ranking, compiled by market research specialist Acrita, is based on the opinions of nearly 350 in-house lawyers at a number of major firms in Europe, with the exception of the UK.

Global law firm Baker McKenzie has secured first place on a list of European brand powerhouses for the second year in a row. Sponsored by STEM Future Lawyers, the legal career network for science, technology, engineering and mathematics students. Now in its fifth year, the list can be sorted according to many different criteria: from the number of training contracts offered to articling students and the salaries of newly qualified lawyers (NQ); diversity statistics to recent apprenticeship recruits; from average check-in and check-out times (dates exclusive to Legal Cheek) to client and international assignment opportunities. If it`s not on the list, it`s probably not worth knowing. Within ranking limits, companies are ranked alphabetically, not in order of merit Each firm on the lists has a detailed profile that includes a comprehensive analysis of its appearance as a workplace and recent performance, as well as an insider dashboard with the ratings they received as part of the 2018-19 Legal Cheek Trainee and Junior Lawyer Survey. Legal Cheek Student Campus ambassadors presented no less than 23 gongs alongside a handful of sponsors and legal celebrities, including Love Island attorney Rosie Williams. Presented by BARBRI, the specialist in international legal qualifications. These can be sorted in order of just about anything – from the number of students offered to the size of the scholarships; from diversity to the most trained new tenants in Oxford. There are a handful of new additions to the list. These include US teams Orrick, Paul Hastings and Vinson & Elkins based in London, as well as domestic players Thrings and VWV.

Media and technology company Wiggin was also added to the list, making this year`s list our most comprehensive list yet. Twenty new companies are included in this year`s list. These include lawyers for the Farrer & Co royal family, regional powers Royds Withy King, Foot Anstey and Ashfords, and US giants Debevoise & Plimpton and Milbank. The legal profession celebrated the best law firms and chambers of the year in a glittering ceremony at the helm of London`s iconic Cheesegrater skyscraper. Sponsored by HBW Consulting, a boutique agency that functions as a specialist extension of your recruitment team, helping law firms with media strategy, spend and analytics. “As a U.S. company, we have much tighter transaction timelines, so if you reach a deadline, everyone is on deck for at least a week or two. While it may be common to stay after 10pm/11pm during peak hours, other hours are reasonable (around 6pm/7pm) and I have rarely had to work on weekends. Perhaps the hardest part is the “always available” culture – you`re expected to answer calls at unholy hours or days off – but hey, that`s why they pay you.

« Highly recommended: Bristows, Farrer & Co, Fladgate, Foot Anstey, Gowling WLG, Kirkland & Ellis, Macfarlanes, Milbank, Mills & Reeve, Osborne Clarke, Ropes & Gray, Taylor Wessing, Travers Smith, Walker Morris The scorecards will feed into our annual awards ceremony, which will take place on March 26, 2020 at Sea Containers House, the chic riverside building on London`s South Bank. Sponsored by Carter Corson, business psychologists who support leading organizations, especially professional services firms. Highly recommended: One Essex Court, Brick Court Chambers, Matrix Chambers, Fountain Court Chambers, 1 Crown Office Row, Essex Court Chambers, 11KBW, Doughty Street Chambers, Landmark Chambers Highly recommended: Blackstone Chambers, Cornerstone Barristers, 5 Essex Court, Exchange Chambers, Hardwicke, Henderson Chambers, Kings Chambers, Littleton Chambers, 2 Temple Gardens “I find Legal Cheek`s Firm Most List extremely useful and use it as a comparison tool for businesses, in which I am interested Apply on. It`s very easy to compare diversity and inclusion statistics such as `Most Associated Women UK` and `Most BME Partners UK` to get a sense of a company`s culture and how they accept differences without having to search each company`s website and material search pages individually. “Highly recommended: Ashfords, BLM, Blake Morgan, Browne Jacobson, Fieldfisher, Forsters, Irwin Mitchell, Mills & Reeve, Royds Withy King. In the beginning, there is the original recruitment process – you don`t want a bunch of clones, but make a mistake that lets in a difficult character and the whole dynamic of the group can be embittered. Then there`s the connection through the Legal Practice Course (LPC), where companies need to do enough to foster a shared identity without being on the backs of their future articling students all the time. As part of the survey, we also received hundreds of anonymous comments about working hours. Here is a selection of quotes from American recruits and Magic Circle. Highly recommended: Allen & Overy, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Hogan Lovells, Kirkland & Ellis, Linklaters, Milbank, Ropes & Gray, Skadden, White & Case “We are delighted that the hours young lawyers spend at work have decreased this year. The high workload and culture of long hours in law can be detrimental to good mental health – we need time to relax, recuperate, and see friends and family – these are not only pleasant to have, but essential to well-being.