4,000 lawyers help LW compile morale rankings
Legal Week is to publish the first comprehensive picture of lawyer morale since leading UK law firms last autumn embarked on a wave of deep job cuts. The major research project will see Legal Week for the first time publish headline rankings for individual law firms from the annual Employee Satisfaction Survey, which will draw on more than 4,000 responses.
May 08, 2009 at 02:01 PM
2 minute read
Legal Week is to publish the first comprehensive picture of lawyer morale since leading UK law firms last autumn embarked on a wave of deep job cuts.
The major research project will see Legal Week for the first time publish headline rankings for individual law firms from the annual Employee Satisfaction Survey, which will draw on more than 4,000 responses.
The report, which will be published in June, promises to paint the most comprehensive picture of the current mood of lawyers in the UK after a 12-month period dominated by restructurings and job losses.
The report, produced by Legal Week's independent research arm Legal Week Intelligence, attracted a record number of responses this year with more than 4,000 solicitors participating.
The report covers the top 50 UK law firms and the top 10 largest London offices of US firms. The research, which was conducted independently of the law firms themselves, was carried out during March and April this year, canvassing the views of qualified solicitors below partner level.
Firms are benchmarked on a range of criteria, including partner prospects, training, salary and benefits and work/life balance. Some of the largest law firms will have received more than 100 responses, ensuring this is the largest benchmarking report of its kind yet undertaken in the UK legal market.
The results will be particularly watched for the impact on staff morale at the firms that have resorted to heavy programmes of job-cutting in response to the recession.
Legal Week publisher John Malpas said: "Over the last six months the UK's leading law firms have implemented an unprecedented round of job cuts. This report will home in on the people who have been left behind to pick up the pieces. These findings will allow us to provide the first authoritative assessment of the ability of the leading law firms to weather such drastic action. It promises to make fascinating reading."
This content has been archived. It is available through our partners, LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law.
To view this content, please continue to their sites.
Not a Lexis Subscriber?
Subscribe Now
Not a Bloomberg Law Subscriber?
Subscribe Now
NOT FOR REPRINT
© 2024 ALM Global, LLC, All Rights Reserved. Request academic re-use from www.copyright.com. All other uses, submit a request to [email protected]. For more information visit Asset & Logo Licensing.
You Might Like
View AllSkadden to Close in Shanghai and Make Cuts to China Corporate Practice
DWF Group's Canadian Firm Set to Add Fourth Office With 16-Lawyer Montreal Team
UK Law Firms Face £75M Money Laundering Investigations Alongside Russia Scrutiny
3 minute readTrending Stories
- 1The Law Firm Disrupted: Playing the Talent Game to Win
- 2A&O Shearman Adopts 3-Level Lockstep Pay Model Amid Shift to All-Equity Partnership
- 3Preparing Your Law Firm for 2025: Smart Ways to Embrace AI & Other Technologies
- 4BD Settles Thousands of Bard Hernia Mesh Lawsuits
- 5A RICO Surge Is Underway: Here's How the Allstate Push Might Play Out
Featured Firms
Law Offices of Gary Martin Hays & Associates, P.C.
(470) 294-1674
Law Offices of Mark E. Salomone
(857) 444-6468
Smith & Hassler
(713) 739-1250