With 220+ partners, over 650 lawyers and around 1,500 staff globally, our team is brimming with creativity, personality and legal knowledge.
Withers has a relatively small trainee intake of 12-14 a year.
Most UK training contracts Orrick. Fried Frank. King & Spalding. Payne Hicks Beach. Wiggin. Haynes and Boone. Katten. Winston & Strawn.
With $377,430,000 gross revenue in 2023, the firm placed 157th on the 2024 Global 200 ranking. Withersworldwide has 593 attorneys and the firm placed 21st on the 2024 UK 100 ranking.
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Withers. Yes, they recruit on a rolling basis.
Extra info Turnover:£267,000,000 (2020) Training programme applications: 667 (2021) Retention rate: 92% (2022) Partner diversity: 55.0% male (2024) 45.0% female Lawyer diversity: 37.0% male (2022) 63.0% female3 more rows
Top paying companies Mayer Brown. $247K - $442K. Lawyer New York City, NY. Quinn Emanuel. $243K - $451K. Lawyer New York City, NY. Sidley Austin. $238K - $431K. Borah, Goldstein, Altschuler, Nahins & Goidel, P.C. 3.2. Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann. 3.2. Cleary Gottlieb. $237K - $442K. Outten & Golden. 3.9. Clausen Miller. 3.2.
Indeed, thanks to the firm's moderate proportions and a trainee intake of around 15, newbies are able to “take on more responsibility more quickly.”