When we delve in to the client comments an interesting pattern emerges. Similarly, when we look at the firms that are ranked as below average for associate quality (we will spare them their blushes by not publishing their names) there are a number of silver circle firms that pay pretty well but still don’t score particularly well on this metric. So pay may help predict quality, but not always. When we look at associate pay at those firms, we can see a wide range in salaries – from £50,000 for a newly qualified to solicitor at Irwin Mitchell to over double that at £105,000 at Herbert Smith Freehills. So are the top paid associates necessarily the ones that clients think are the best? Not necessarily. The results may be finely balanced but they are statistically significant, with bands of uncertainty marked within square brackets and all scores relative to an overall average client satisfaction score.
But Taylor Wessing and Herbert Smith Freehills also make an appearance.
According to its research, clients rate the associates at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Slaughter and May and Irwin Mitchell as the best of all those at the UK’s top-25 firms.Īs you can see from the list below, the magic circle do pretty well in our research, with two of the top five spots taken by these storied firms – all scoring well above our benchmark. Legalease Research Services contacts over 150,000 clients in the UK annually to provide assessments of law firm service. But what do clients really think of those highly paid associates? A newly qualified lawyer at a magic circle firm can expect to take home over £100k a year. Law firms spend big money making sure they have the best junior lawyers.
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