Golden Turd spreads its wings as Firm of the Year 2017 survey OPENS

Close the door and channel your true feelings, the RollOnFriday Firm of the Year 2017 survey is open.

FOTY is the biggest and best poll where lawyers, trainees, paralegals and non-fee-earners answer eight multiple choice questions rating their firm's pay, management, culture, work-life balance and, crucially, its loos and meeting room biscuits.

Whichever firm comes top is crowned the RollOnFriday Firm of the Year 2017. Whichever firm comes bottom endures the Golden Turd.

Cup or crap: You decide

Last year an incredible 4,705 responses were gratefully received. US firm Shearman & Sterling and Bristol-based Burges Salmon came joint top, while the Golden Turd dropped from a great height onto Hill Dickinson.

But a new trophy has been smelted and a new stool has been passed, and RollOnFriday needs you to decide which goes where. Of course there's more than just the winner and the loser. The full rankings are used all year by students and lawyers to assess where to take a job and where to avoid like the plague. And it's a platform for you to anonymously say what's right and wrong at your firm, because law firm management teams also pay close attention to the results.

We don't ask much of you, dear reader, but we do ask this - please rate your firm. The results will be announced in January. Thank you.

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Comments

Giant turd award for CMS, Nabarro and Olswangs may be?

I don't think the new trophy has been smelted, the ores to produce the base metals to produce the trophy may have been smelted, but if you have smelted the trophy that suggests the trophy itself has been smelted down. Surely the new trophy has been cast?

My bets are on KWM for the turd d'or this year: what they managed to do to that shop in the space of ~12 months is spectacular.

I can't remember the winners and losers from previous years - perhaps a chart on the main page might help?

Anon @08.37 - I don't think Golden Turd is quite the gong that THE SENIOR PARTNER so desperately craves.

when will the results be announced?

Surely Hill Dickinson again? I hear they are considering scrapping their training scheme all together - to add to DX, hot food, coffee, pay increases, basic respect and job security.

I have a suspicion that Hill Dicks will come roaring back for a second claim at the trophy. Also in the contest would be the KWM team. Remarkable talent, that lot.

I have a very positive experience of Hill Dickinson. Without going into unnecessary detail, the firm is currently supporting a junior lawyer who is receiving treatment for cancer. From the top down, the firm has shown flexibility, compassion and a proactive approach in assisting this person in circumstances where they have probably gobe well beyond their obligations. While there may be just causes for concern among some staff, in this case the firm has continued to go above and beyond in assisting me.