Founding:

• DWF was founded in Liverpool in 1977.
• Since 1977 it has expanded its headquarters to 16 major cities in the UK.
• It also provides services mainly to the USA, Canada, France, South Africa, China, and Russia.

Reasons to love DWF:

• Opportunities
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Corporate Values

DWF offers:

Apprenticeships:

• £12,000 a year plus benefits
• 2 years of experience
• Covers all training costs
• At the end all participants receive a certificate of Higher Education (equivalent to a first year of a law degree)
• Leads to a qualification to become a solicitor

Full time:

• Starting Salaries for the legal sector is £45-60k
• Benefits: 9 weeks paid vacation, 52 week maternity leave (32 weeks is paid), and 2 week paid paternity leave.

Corporate Social Responsibility:

Focus on the environment

• DWF has achieved the ISO14001 certificate
• Recycles 80% of annual waste
• Reduced paper use by 15% and carbon emissions by 0.6 tonnes.

Corporate Values:

• DWF relies on employee self management.
• Employees set their own work schedule.
• Everyone is treated with the same respect (CEO - Custodian)
• Diversity is celebrated

“ Our approach to diversity is to ensure it is not only present in terms of our policies but visible in practice throughout the firm and something I view as critical to our plans for future growth.”

- Andrew Leaitherland, CEO & Managing Partner

Cited

https://www.dwf.law/about-us/

http://www.chambersandpartners.com/UK/firm/168351/dwf

https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-DWF-EI_IE690444.11,14.htm

http://www.thejobcrowd.com/employer/dwf-llp