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  • Slaughter and May Biggest and best work around High pressure and expectations
  • Ashurst Great international opportunities No specific mentoring programme
  • Nomura International exposure No scope for junior team members to have input in company decisions
  • John Lewis Partnership Co-owned business with profit sharing schemes In some branches and roles the location can make it difficult to socialise among teams
  • Olswang Unstuffy, friendly and informal culture Becoming increasingly corporate
  • Thales Good job security Lack of technical training
  • Sidley Austin Very good pay Trainees are thrown in at the deep end
  • Boston Consulting Group Working with ‘intelligent, interesting people’ You're required to travel to clients and stay in hotels a fair bit
  • Norton Rose Large scale and high profile work Hours can be long, again depending on the department
  • Travers Smith No billable hours targets Slight lack of flexibility
  • Allen & Overy No pressure for face time The ladder to making partner is steep
  • Ince & Co Varied and interesting work Little communication about partnership decisions
  • Capgemini Accessible mentors and a ‘great support network’ There’s a fair amount of travel to client sites
  • Penningtons Excellent informal training with accessible partners and senior solicitors Lack of social events
  • Shearman & Sterling High quality deals and clients with lots of international work Bonus system is unclear and pay is on the low end of the scale for a US firm
  • Mayer Brown Solid training at a department and firm-wide level Solicitors do not get to participate in firm decisions, and there’s sometimes a lack of transparency over decisions
  • nucleargraduates Many opportunities to network and make contacts for the future Work flow can sometimes be inconsistent
  • Hogan Lovells Work/life balance is respected where possible Sometimes no transparency over decisions
  • The Co-operative Group Plenty of responsibility and autonomy It is a bit old fashioned at times
  • Jones Day Has a unique (non-rotational) training programme where trainees choose and seek out their own work Will primarily suit those who are pro-active and prepared to seek out their own work from different departments and manage their own workload
  • KPMG Open door policy and approachable partners Limited and scattered office space, and some office are quite old

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