We have 119 partners and around 1,050 people operating from offices in Birmingham, Guangzhou, London, Munich, Paris and United Arab Emirates.
Commerciality is at the heart of everything we do. We understand business. Lots of us have worked in business. This way, clients can be sure of staying ahead of the game, confident that every imaginable commercial angle has been covered by people who really know them. Today, we have clients worldwide, including 27 FTSE 100s, 22 FTSE 250s, hundreds of public sector organisations and thousands of large private companies.
Our culture
We’re a team of knowledgeable and talented individuals. We share ideas, insight and responsibilities. And being ‘unstuffy’ is a Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co. hallmark. We value minimum hierarchy so we’re open plan and everyone has the same space.
You can just walk up to a desk and ask a question, whether it’s to a newly qualified lawyer or a managing partner. This openness is one of our most precious values. It’s this working culture that’s helped us become the only law firm to appear in the UK’s Top Best Workplaces in 2012. More than that, we’re one of only two organisations to feature in the top 50 for the past eleven years.
Who are we looking for?
We’re not prescriptive when it comes to particular grades at A Level or degree. We look at the bigger picture. We want to recruit bright, intelligent people and we think our selection procedure measures whether you have the skills and attributes we look for in our trainees.
We want to hear from people of all ages and backgrounds. Take some of our current trainees, one of them used to be a record producer, another was a baker. We even have an ex-prima ballerina in the firm!Training contracts and Vacation schemes At Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co., you’re a lawyer from the word go. So we treat you as a lawyer. With early responsibility, big-ticket work and plenty of partner and client contact. For example, you might find yourself working on high profile cases in your first few weeks. You’ll definitely be talking to clients, offering them advice and insight. Now, in terms of the numbers, we believe that small is beautiful. For 2015, we’ll recruit 15 trainees into our Birmingham office and five into our London office. So, because you’re one of a select few, you’re not in competition for quality work.
We also run vacation schemes during the Easter and summer holidays in Birmingham and London which are a perfect way to get to know us and obtain an on-the-ground, up-close-and-personal feel for life at Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co. And while we can’t stress the usefulness of a vacation scheme enough, you don’t have to do one in order to apply for a training contract.
Applications can be made online via our website from 1 November to 31 January for our vacation scheme and then until 31 July for our training contract each year.
To find out more visit: http://www.wragge-law.com/join-us/
