Marque Lawyers enter the record books today by topping the RollOnFriday Aussie Firm of the Year survey for the third consecutive year. It beat off challenges from DLA Piper and Gilbert + Tobin to take the gong with an impressive overall score of 97%.
We asked staff across the law firms of Australia to rate their pay, work-life balance, management openness, career prospects, pro bono and diversity as well as the all-important categories of biscuits and bogs.
And didn’t Marques do well? The firm scored a perfect 100% for work/life balance, openness and biscuits. But scores in the other seven categories weren’t far behind. Pay is the firm’s worse scoring category which isn’t all that surprising as a small aussie outfit of seven partners, but still 93% ain’t that bad. Indeed if all lawyers have to complain about is the time when “once, we ran out of felt tip pens and didn't get more for six months” then life as a Marques Lawyer is really rather peachy. One lawyer shared their hopes and dreams with RollOnFriday, “I wish we had offices all around the world so everyone else can experience our greatness”. How modest.
A joyful spokesman said that to win three years in a row “is so amazing it’s made us feel like a mongoose high on crystal meth.” After he recovered from his acid trip he said “the knowledge, that we like what we’re doing and how we’re doing it sufficiently to give ourselves the level of public endorsement that results in this prize, is all we need to be confident that we’re onto a very good thing”. He then continued on his bender, “Crank up the beer fridge, it’s celebratin’ time.” Well done Marques.
Meanwhile, Anglo-American firm DLA Piper came in second. The firm performed solidly across all nine categories and achieved a stonking 100% for both diversity and pro bono. As one employee says it has a "great commitment to corporate responsibility - both globally and locally". A well deserved silver.
And third place goes to home grown Aussie outfit Gilbert + Tobin. The firm received praise for its culture: "top quality work, top quality people, top quality banter". And (unusually) everyone seems pretty happy with the pay as it scored full marks at 100%. Salaries are described as "exceptional" and there are "massive opportunities for rapid development". The hours, however, aren't so great and this is reflected in the firm achieving only 72% for work/life balance. One lawyer thinks the long hours are "perhaps due to the fact that G+T attracts deals that compete - by size and complexity - with bigger firms (which, by definition, have more staff)". But it seems hard work is rewarded and one senior associate describes the post-completion perks "from bottles of Veuve gifted by partners for hard work, to lunches at Sydney's top establishments".
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Marque Lawyers celebrates its third consecutive win |
We asked staff across the law firms of Australia to rate their pay, work-life balance, management openness, career prospects, pro bono and diversity as well as the all-important categories of biscuits and bogs.
And didn’t Marques do well? The firm scored a perfect 100% for work/life balance, openness and biscuits. But scores in the other seven categories weren’t far behind. Pay is the firm’s worse scoring category which isn’t all that surprising as a small aussie outfit of seven partners, but still 93% ain’t that bad. Indeed if all lawyers have to complain about is the time when “once, we ran out of felt tip pens and didn't get more for six months” then life as a Marques Lawyer is really rather peachy. One lawyer shared their hopes and dreams with RollOnFriday, “I wish we had offices all around the world so everyone else can experience our greatness”. How modest.
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A joyful spokesman said that to win three years in a row “is so amazing it’s made us feel like a mongoose high on crystal meth.” After he recovered from his acid trip he said “the knowledge, that we like what we’re doing and how we’re doing it sufficiently to give ourselves the level of public endorsement that results in this prize, is all we need to be confident that we’re onto a very good thing”. He then continued on his bender, “Crank up the beer fridge, it’s celebratin’ time.” Well done Marques.
Meanwhile, Anglo-American firm DLA Piper came in second. The firm performed solidly across all nine categories and achieved a stonking 100% for both diversity and pro bono. As one employee says it has a "great commitment to corporate responsibility - both globally and locally". A well deserved silver.
And third place goes to home grown Aussie outfit Gilbert + Tobin. The firm received praise for its culture: "top quality work, top quality people, top quality banter". And (unusually) everyone seems pretty happy with the pay as it scored full marks at 100%. Salaries are described as "exceptional" and there are "massive opportunities for rapid development". The hours, however, aren't so great and this is reflected in the firm achieving only 72% for work/life balance. One lawyer thinks the long hours are "perhaps due to the fact that G+T attracts deals that compete - by size and complexity - with bigger firms (which, by definition, have more staff)". But it seems hard work is rewarded and one senior associate describes the post-completion perks "from bottles of Veuve gifted by partners for hard work, to lunches at Sydney's top establishments".
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