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Over 8,000 people working in law firms told RollOnFriday how satisfied they were with their pay, work/life balance, career development, management, and their firm's culture. The results provide a comprehensive ranking of the best law firms to work for in the UK. Read more on the RollOnFriday Best Law Firms to Work At 2022.
Firm | Offices | Pay | Career Development | Work/Life Balance | Management | Culture | Overall | Overall Position | |
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Womble Bond Dickinson | Winston-Salem | Aberdeen, Bristol, Edinburgh, Leeds, London, Newcastle, Plymouth, and Southampton. Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Charleston, Charlotte, Charlottesville, Columbia, Greensboro, Greenville, Los Angeles, Orange County, Raleigh, Research Triangle Park, Silicon Valley, Tysons, Washington DC, Wilmington, Winston-Salem | 55% | 62% | 73% | 56% | 61% | 62% | |
White & Case | New York City |
London
Abu Dhabi, Astana, Beijing, Berlin, Bratislava, Brussels, Cairo, Doha, Dubai, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hamburg, Helsinki, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Johannesburg, Madrid, Manila, Melbourne, Milan, Moscow, Paris, Prague, USA (Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Miami, New York, São Paulo, Silicon Valley, Tampa, Washington DC), Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Stockholm, Sydney, Tashkent, Tokyo, Warsaw |
80% | 74% | 63% | 81% | 76% | 75% | |
Weil | New York City | London Beijing, Boston, Dallas, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Houston, Miami, Munich, New York, Paris, Prague, Princeton, Shanghai, Silicon Valley, Warsaw, Washington DC | 68% | 65% | 58% | 71% | 71% | 67% | |
Weightmans | Liverpool | Birmingham, Glasgow, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Newcastle | 45% | 62% | 68% | 61% | 66% | 60% | |
Watson, Farley & Williams | London | London Athens, Bangkok, Dubai, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanoi, Hong Kong, Madrid, Milan, Munich, New York, Paris, Rome, Singapore, | 48% | 546% | 49% | 39% | 41% | 45% | |
Trowers & Hamlins | London | Birmingham, Exeter, London, Manchester Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Dubai, Kuala Lumpur, Oman | 71% | 72% | 75% | 80% | 81% | 76% | |
Travers Smith | London | London Paris | 73% | 79% | 74% | 87% | 88% | 80% | |
TLT | Bristol | Belfast, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Manchester Piraeus | 69% | 75% | 80% | 84% | 86% | 79% | |
Taylor Wessing | London | Cambridge, London Amsterdam, Beijing, Berlin, Bratislava, Brussels, Brno, Budapest, Dubai, Dusseldorf, Eindhoven, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Kiev, Klagenfurt, Munich, New York, Paris, Prague, Singapore, Shanghai, Silicon Valley, Vienna, Warsaw | 52% | 72% | 68% | 74% | 78% | 69% | |
Squire Patton Boggs | Cleveland |
Birmingham, Leeds, London, Manchester
Abu Dhabi, Beijing, Berlin, Birmingham, Böblingen, Bratislava, Brussels, Budapest, Darwin, Doha, Dubai, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Madrid, Moscow, Paris, Perth, Prague, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, Warsaw |
45% | 59% | 57% | 59% | 68% | 58% | |
Slaughter and May | London | London Brussels, Beijing, Hong Kong | 37% | 53% | 37% | 45% | 54% | 45% | |
Slater and Gordon | Melbourne | Birmingham, Cambridge, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Preston, Watford Oz | 43% | 46% | 53% | 43% | 47% | 46% | |
Simmons & Simmons | London |
Bristol, London
Amsterdam, Beijing Brussels, Doha, Dubai, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Madrid, Milan, Munich, Paris, Shanghai, Singapore |
62% | 63% | 56% | 63% | 69% | 63% | |
Sidley Austin | Chicago | London Beijing, Brussels, Geneva, Hong Kong, Munich, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, USA (Boston, Century City, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Palo Alto, San Francisco, Washington DC) | 92% | 78% | 67% | 85% | 85% | 81% | |
Shoosmiths | Milton Keynes | Manchester, Belfast, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Leeds, London, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Northampton, Nottingham, Southampton, Thames Valley | 57% | 66% | 69% | 71% | 75% | 67% | |
Shearman & Sterling | New York City | London Abu Dhabi, Austin, Beijing, Brussels, Dubai, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Houston, Menlo Park, Milan, New York, Paris, Rome, San Francisco, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo, Toronto, Washington DC | 78% | 72% | 71% | 76% | 76% | 75% | |
Shakespeare Martineau | Birmingham | Birmingham, Brussels, Leicester, London, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Nottingham, Sheffield, Solihull, Stratford Upon Avon | 45% | 48% | 61% | 36% | 45% | 47% | |
RPC | London | Bristol, London Hong Kong, Singapore | 56% | 71% | 70% | 78% | 80% | 71% | |
Ropes & Gray | Boston | London Chicago, Hong Kong, New York, San Francisco, Seoul, Shanghai, Silicon Valley, Tokyo and Washington, D.C. | 81% | 77% | 61% | 78% | 79% | 75% | |
Reed Smith | Pittsburgh | London Abu Dhabi, Athens, Austin, Beijing, Century City, Chicago, Dubai, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Houston, Kazakhstan, Los Angeles, Miami, Munich, New York, Paris, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Princeton, Richmond, San Francisco, Shanghai, Silicon Valley, Singapore, Tysons, Washington DC, Wilmington | 68% | 67% | 66% | 67% | 76% | 69% | |
Pinsent Masons | London |
Aberdeen, Belfast, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Falklands, Glasgow, Leeds, London, Manchester
Beijing, Doha, Dubai, Dublin, Düsseldorf, Hong Kong, Madrid, Melbourne, Munich, Paris, Perth, Singapore, Shanghai, Sydney |
48% | 52% | 60% | 59% | 66% | 57% | |
Penningtons Manches | London | Basingstoke, Cambridge, Guildford, London, Oxford, Reading San Francisco | 55% | 71% | 70% | 74% | 79% | 70% | |
Osborne Clarke | London | Bristol, London, Reading Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Busto Arsizio, Brescia, Brussels, Cologne, Hamburg, Madrid, Milan, Munich, New York, Padua, Palo Alto, Paris, Rome, San Francisco, Stockholm, Zaragoza | 71% | 74% | 74% | 86% | 88% | 79% | |
Norton Rose Fulbright | London | London Amsterdam, Athens, Bahrain, Bangkok, Beijing, Brisbane, Brussels, Bogotá, Canada (Calgary, Montréal, Ottawa, Québec, Toronto, Vancouver), Canberra, Cape Town, Caracas, Casablanca, Dar es Salaam, Dubai, Durban, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Johannesburg, Luxembourg, Melbourne, Mexico City, Milan, Monaco, Moscow, Munich, Paris, Perth, Piraeus, Port Moresby, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, USA (Austin, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York, San Antonio, San Francisco, St Louis, Washington DC), Tokyo, Warsaw | 44% | 47% | 47% | 49% | 52% | 48% | |
Mishcon De Reya | London | London Singapore | 61% | 71% | 70% | 73% | 60% | 71% | |
Mills & Reeve | London | Birmingham, Cambridge, Manchester, Leeds, London, Norwich | 66% | 76% | 79% | 86% | 87% | 79% | |
Mayer Brown | Chicago | London Brussels, Dubai, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Paris, USA (Charlotte, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Palo Alto, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Washington DC), Asia (Beijing, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo) | 62% | 60% | 60% | 63% | 66% | 62% | |
Linklaters | London | London Abu Dhabi, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Bangkok, Beijing, Berlin, Brussels, Dubai, Dusseldorf, Frankurt, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Madrid, Milan, Munich, New York, Paris, Rome, São Paulo, Seoul, Singapore, Shanghai, Stockholm, Tokyo, Warsaw, Washington DC | 58% | 60% | 45% | 56% | 63% | 56% | |
Latham & Watkins | Los Angeles | London Beijing, Brussels, Düsseldorf, Dubai, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Munich, Paris, Rome, Singapore, Seoul, Shanghai, Tokyo, USA (Boston, Century City, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Orange County, San Diego, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Washington DC) | 86% | 76% | 60% | 81% | 79% | 76% | |
Knights | Newcastle | Birmingham, Cheltenham, Chester, Crawley, Exeter, Leeds, Leicester, Maidstone, Manchester, Nottingham, Oxford, Sheffield, Stoke, Teesside, Weybridge, Wilmslow, York | 39% | 40% | 54% | 29% | 31% | 39% | |
Kirkland & Ellis | Chicago | London Beijing, Boston, Chicago ,Dallas, Hong Kong, Houston, Los Angeles, Munich, New York, Palo Alto, San Francisco, Shanghai, Washington DC | 88% | 82% | 46% | 74% | 61% | 70% | |
Jones Day | Cleveland | London Amsterdam, Atlanta, Beijing, Boston, Brisbane, Brussels, Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, Dallas, Detroit, Dubai, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Houston, Irvine, Los Angeles, Madrid, Melbourne, Mexico City, Miami, Milan, Minneapolis, Moscow, Munich, New York, Paris, Perth, Pittsburgh, San Diego, San Francisco, São Paulo, Saudi Arabia, Shanghai, Silicon Valley, Singapore, Sydney, Taipei, Tokyo, Washington DC | 77% | 69% | 67% | 58% | 73% | 69% | |
Irwin Mitchell | Sheffield | Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Glasgow, Leeds, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield, Southampton | 53% | 62% | 68% | 62% | 69% | 63% | |
Hogan Lovells | London | Birmingham, London Alicante, Amsterdam, Beijing, Brussels, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, Madrid, Mexico City, Milan, Monterrey, Moscow, Munich, Paris, Perth, Rome, Shanghai, Singapore, São Paulo, Sydney, Tokyo, USA (Baltimore, Boston, Colorado Springs, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Louisville, Miami, Minneapolis, New York, Northern Virginia, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Washington DC), Warsaw | 66% | 60% | 58% | 62% | 71% | 63% | |
HFW | London | London Abu Dhabi, Brussels, Dubai, Geneva, Hong Kong, Houston, Melbourne, Paris, Perth, Piraeus, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney | 41% | 46% | 57% | 48% | 50% | 49% | |
Herbert Smith Freehills | London | Belfast, London Bangkok, Beijing, Berlin, Brisbane, Brussels, Dubai, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Jakarta, Johannesburg, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Madrid, Melbourne, Milan, Moscow, New York, Paris, Perth, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo | 54% | 56% | 55% | 58% | 65% | 58% | |
Gowling WLG | London | Birmingham, London Beijing, Brussels, Canada (Calgary, Hamilton, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Waterloo Region), Dubai, Guangzhou, Moscow, Munich, Paris, Stuttgart | 51% | 51% | 55% | 56% | 68% | 56% | |
Freshfields | London | London, Manchester Abu Dhabi, Amsterdam, Beijing, Berlin, Brussels, Dubai, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Madrid, Manama, Milan, Moscow, Munich, New York, Paris, Riyadh, Rome, Singapore Shanghai, Tokyo, Vienna, Washington DC | 67% | 62% | 50% | 65% | 63% | 62% | |
Fieldfisher | London | Belfast, Birmingham, London, Manchester Amsterdam, Beijing, Bologna, Brussels, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Guangzhou, Hamburg, Luxembourg, Milan, Munich, Paris, Rome, Shanghai, Silicon Valley, Turin, Venice | 46% | 59% | 63% | 54% | 63% | 57% | |
Eversheds Sutherland | London | Belfast, Birmingham, Cambridge, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Ipswich, Leeds, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Belfast Abu Dhabi, Amsterdam, Beijing, Berlin, Berne, Brunei Darussalam, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Doha, Dubai, Dublin, Durban, Dusseldorf, Geneva, Hamburg, Helsinki, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan, Munich, Paris, Port Louis, Riga, Rome, Singapore, Stockholm, Rotterdam, Shanghai, St Petersburg, Tallinn, Tunis, Vienna, Vilnius, Warsaw, Zurich | 50% | 59% | 53% | 66% | 66% | 59% | |
DWF | Manchester | Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Newcastle Berlin, Brisbane, Brussels, Chicago, Doha, Dubai, Dublin, Cologne, Melbourne, Milan, Munich, Newcastle (NSW), Paris, Singapore, Sydney, Toronto | 42% | 47% | 60% | 55% | 61% | 53% | |
DLA Piper | London | Birmingham, Edinburgh, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Sheffield Aarhus, Abu Dhabi, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Auckland, Beijing, Bratislava, Brisbane, Bogotá, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Canada (Calgary, Edmonton, Montréal, Toronto, Vancouver, Yellowknife), Casablanca, Cologne, Copenhagen, Doha, Dubai, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Helsinki, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, Kuwait City, Kyiv, Lima, Lisbon, Luxembourg, Madrid, Manama, Melbourne, Mexico City, Milan, Moscow, Munich, Muscat, Oslo, Paris, Perth, Prague, Rome, Seoul, Shanghai, Santiago, Singapore, Stockholm, St Petersburg, Sydney, Tokyo, USA (Albany, Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, New Jersey, New York, Northern Virginia, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Raleigh, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Silicon Valley, Washington DC, Wilmington), Warsaw, Wellington, Vienna | 51% | 55% | 52% | 61% | 63% | 56% | |
Dentons | London | Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Milton Keynes Canada (Calgary, Edmonton, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver), United States (Albany, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Hilo, Honolulu, Houston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, New York, Orange County, Phoenix, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco/Oakland, Short Hills, Silicon Valley, St. Louis, Tysons, Washington DC), Latin America and the Caribbean (Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Bogotá, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Guanacaste, Guatemala City, Guyana, Jamaica, Lima, Mexico City, Monterrey, Montserrat, Panama City, San José, San Salvador, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and The Grenadines), Europe (Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, Frankfurt, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan, Munich, Paris Rome), Central and Eastern Europe (Bratislava, Bucharest, Budapest, Istanbul, Prague, Warsaw), Russia and the Caucasus (Kyiv, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Tbilisi), Africa (Cairo, Cape Town, Casablanca, Johannesburg), Middle East (Abu Dhabi, Doha, Dubai, Muscat), Central Asia (Almaty, Astana, Baku, Tashkent), China (Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, plus 42 more), Singapore, Asia Pacific (Port Moresby, Seoul, Ulaanbaatar, Yangon), Australia (Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney) | 49% | 54% | 52% | 45% | 52% | 50% | |
Debevoise & Plimpton | New York City | London Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Moscow, New York, Paris, Shanghai, Tokyo, Washington DC | 86% | 72% | 68% | 67% | 68% | 74% | 15 |
DAC Beachcroft | London | Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Newport, Winchester Bogotá D.C, Dublin, Madrid, Mexico City, Miami, Santiago de Chile, Singapore | 58% | 75% | 83% | 82% | 85% | 77% | |
CMS | London | Aberdeen, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Manchester, Sheffield, Reading Barcelona, Bratislava, Dubai, Geneva, Kyiv, Ljubljana, Madrid, Seville, Singapore, Zurich | 65% | 73% | 66% | 77% | 79% | 72% | |
Clyde & Co | London |
Aberdeen, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Guildford, Leeds, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Oxford
Abu Dhabi, Atlanta, Beijing, Brisbane, Cape Town, Caracas, Chicago, Dar es Salaam, Doha, Dubai, Dusseldorf, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, Los Angeles, Madrid, Melbourne, Mexico City, Miami, Montréal, Nantes, New Jersey, New York, Orange County, Paris, Perth, Riyadh, San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, Toronto, Washington DC |
43% | 55% | 64% | 55% | 58% | 55% | |
Clifford Chance | London |
London, Newcastle
Abu Dhabi, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Beijing, Brussels, Bucharest, Casablanca, Dubai, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Munich, New York, Paris, Perth, Prague, Rome, São Paulo, Seoul, Shanghai, Sydney, Tokyo, Warsaw, Washington |
72% | 62% | 62% | 67% | 66% | 68% | 28 |
Clarke Willmott | Bristol | Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, London, Manchester, Southampton, Taunton | 69% | 74% | 81% | 83% | 83% | 78% | |
Charles Russell Speechlys | London | Cheltenham, Guilford, London Doha, Dubai, Geneva, Luxembourg, Manama, Paris, Zurich | 45% | 59% | 57% | 57% | 56% | 55% | |
Birketts | Ipswich | Cambridge, Chelmsford, Ipswich, London, Norwich | 67% | 75% | 68% | 73% | 74% | 71% | |
Bird & Bird | London | London Abu Dhabi, Amsterdam, Beijing, Bratislava, Brussels, Budapest, Copenhagen, Dubai, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, The Hague, Helsinki, Hong Kong, Lyon, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan, Munich, Paris, Prague, Rome, Singapore, Stockholm, Sydney, Warsaw | 54% | 71% | 75% | 74% | 85% | 72% | |
BCLP | London | Manchester Abu Dhabi, Atlanta, Berlin, Boulder, Brussels, Charlotte, Chicago, Colorado Springs, Dallas, Denver, Dubai, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Irvine, Jefferson City, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Miami, Moscow, New York, Overland Park, Paris, Phoenix, San Francisco, Singapore, Shanghai, Southern Illinois, St. Louis, Tel Aviv, Washington | 55% | 49% | 56% | 43% | 51% | 51% | |
Baker McKenzie | Chicago | Belfast, London Abu Dhabi, Almaty, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Bahrain, Barcelona, Berlin, Budapest, Brussels, Cairo, Casablanca, Doha, Dubai, Dusseldorf, Geneva, Frankfurt, Istanbul, Johannesburg, Kyiv, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Munich, Paris, Prague, Rome, St Petersburg, Stockholm, Vienna, Warsaw, Zurich | 52% | 56% | 53% | 57% | 57% | 55% | |
Axiom Ince | London | London Beijing, Shanghai | 62% | 62% | 80% | 65% | 76% | 69% | |
Ashurst | London | London, Glasgow Abu Dhabi, Beijing, Brisbane, Brussels, Canberra, Dubai, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Madrid, Melbourne, Milan, Munich, New York, Paris, Perth, Port Moresby, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, Washington DC | 52% | 63% | 58% | 61% | 68% | 60% | |
Allen & Overy | London | Belfast, London Amsterdam, Antwerp, Bangkok, Barcelona, Beijing, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Bratislava, Casablanca, Doha, Dubai, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Johannesburg, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Munich, New York, Paris, Perth, Prague, Rome, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, Warsaw, Washington DC | 59% | 57% | 56% | 55% | 58% | 55% | |
Akin Gump | Washington, DC | London Abu Dhabi, Beijing, Dallas, Dubai, Fort Worth, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hartford, Hong Kong, Houston, Irvine, Los Angeles, Moscow, New York, Philadelphia, San Antonio, San Francisco, Singapore, Washington DC | 59% | 57% | 56% | 60% | 64% | 59% |