A career as a lawyer with Burges Salmon offers the perfect balance between professional success and personal fulfilment. Whilst working for one of the UK's leading commercial law firms, our lawyers have the best of both worlds. On the one hand, our lawyers are constantly engaged in the highest quality work in this country and overseas. Then there's our Bristol location which ensures a quality of life unrivalled elsewhere in the UK.
Burges Salmon LLP is a business whose key resource is its people. Like any other business, its market is constantly changing and if it is to remain successful, the firm and its lawyers must constantly evolve. For the lawyers to do that they must understand the environment within which they are working, including the firm's expectations of them and the rewards that are on offer as their career continues to develop.
The following document aims to give an appropriate explanation of what can be expected of and by an individual in each group and seeks to explain some of the key factors which affect an individual's progress from one group to the next. The document summarises the position as at August 2006 but the business fundamentals which underpin the firm's current attitudes are always changing, so many of the issues dealt with are under regular review as circumstances dictate.
