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Firm of the Year Update: Whose office is a "turd that just won't flush?"
The RollOnFriday Firm of the Year survey is in full swing, so if you haven't had your say, do add your two cents.

Burges Salmon, which came in the top ten last year, is getting the thumbs up again from lots of its lawyers, particularly those with experience of the City. Although a junior associate warns that the only difference between London and Bristol is swapping "workaholic partners for ones in tweed chatting about the weekend hunt", another colleague sighs that moving from the Magic Circle was "the best decision I ever made". A trainee who is about to qualify says he's seen none of the "Battle Royale-style back-stabbing" experienced by his friends in the capital.

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Meanwhile lots of respondents outside London are concerned about pay. An Eversheds associate complains, "for the hours I do, it might be nice to be paid as much as my silver circle friends". A peer adds how "depressing" it is to meet London NQs who are "paid more than you despite being 6 years your junior".

However a Bond Dickinson lawyer has more immediate concerns: "I don't know what is happening in our Newcastle office, but it seems every member of staff there has clammy hands". And there's bad news too at DLA Piper, where one associate labels the Edinburgh office a "determined turd that just won't flush away". Although "one more tug on the chain should do it, and then we can all pack up and go home".

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Comments

Anonymous 10 January 14 10:55

Crumbs. Those people at Burges Salmon clearly didn't work in the private client team! I did, and have never been so glad to leave anywhere. Average work poorly managed by wannabes with a very distorted perception of their own abilities.

Anonymous 10 January 14 12:40

I think you may be out of date, anonymous @ 10:55. I am still here and the work is of good quality and the people are very able. Nowt wrong with a bit of tweed, although I do draw the line at hunting.

Anonymous 10 January 14 13:38

Interesting... I too used to work in that department at BS and am now in the City at a firm where the work is incomparably more impressive, and indeed the bosses incomparably better colleagues (so I wonder if the BS view of 'good quality work' is one lacking in outside perspective?). In my experience the problem lay more with the partners than with the associates, many of whom (self included) left in disgust at the way they were treated. I think the 'wannabe' remark above describes partners who thought they were on a par with those at City firms rather well. Since most of those same partners are still there, I don't imagine things have changed much.

Anonymous 10 January 14 13:43

Interesting... I too used to work in that department at BS and am now in the City at a firm where the work is incomparably more impressive, and indeed the bosses incomparably better colleagues (so I wonder if the BS view of 'good quality work' is one lacking in outside perspective?). In my experience the problem lay more with the partners than with the associates, many of whom (self included) left in disgust at the way they were treated. I think the 'wannabe' remark above describes partners who thought they were on a par with those at City firms rather well. Since most of those same partners are still there, I don't imagine things have changed much.