Over the past two decades, we have been consistently recognised as a Top Employer.
Our outstanding people-centric policies and practices and workplace excellence support growth and professional development, sustain employee wellbeing and foster inclusion and belonging.
Our purpose and values
We welcome the diverse perspectives and experiences that people from different walks of life bring to the legal profession, and See the Possibility in each and everyone of them.
Our values are at the heart of what makes us a different law firm:
- Collaboration and innovation: we deliver creative solutions to meet clients’ needs, achieving sustainable success for all
- Teamwork and respect: we value and celebrate diversity, equity and inclusion and build strong and respectful teams
- Integrity: we act with transparency, remaining accountable to our clients and each other, and ensuring our decisions support sustainability
Social mobility, inclusion and belonging
We recognise the several social and economic factors that may impact the prospects of a career in law. This is why we foster a work environment where people can grow and thrive regardless of their background.
We embrace diversity, and are committed to bridging gaps, supporting equal opportunities and fairness, and fostering an inclusive organisational culture.
Key players such as a dedicated post, Strand Leads and DE&I Champions help sustain our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion commitments. Our #Proud2Be network and Neurodiversity peer support circle are firm-wide affinity groups that provide safe spaces, drive engagement initiatives and offer sense-checking and perspective as relevant. We welcome increasing employee-led initiatives focused on DE&I as we recognise the crucial role these play in nurturing the inclusive organisational culture of our firm.
Our firm offers continuous learning and promotes opportunities for personal and professional growth through mentoring, sponsorship and leadership development programmes.
Professional development and workplace wellbeing
Our comprehensive benefit package, hybrid and agile operating models across departments, and key policies such as flexible working, maternity and paternity leave, shared parental leave, adoption leave, menopause, etc. facilitate inclusive practice. We are committed to ensuring that all our people can be supported as needed throughout different life events, career stages, and changes in circumstances.
We have trained Mental Health First Aiders across all our sites and run an annual wellbeing programme to raise awareness and foster best practice on a wide range of issues such as addiction, stress, anxiety and depression, grief and loss, suicidal thoughts, resilience, mindfulness, healthy eating, etc.
We actively encourage the uptake of annual leave and are signatories of the Mindful Business Charter. We are committed to sustainable working patterns and ensure all team leaders and people managers promote the physical and mental health, and emotional wellbeing of everyone across legal teams and business services.
Sustainability and Responsible Business
At Weightmans, we are also incredibly proud to have a thriving Corporate Social Responsibility programme. With dedicated procedures and incentives, people at our firm make a tangible difference across communities through volunteering their time and talent to support social and environmental causes.
With organisational commitments to social and environmental sustainability aligned with personal values, for many of our people Weightmans provides a fulfilling, enjoyable and supportive work environment. We know that when our people feel motivated and valued and are enabled to perform at their best, their exceptional results become our firm’s success.
Working at Weightmans
Life at Weightmans is more than just working at a law firm. It is about connections, belonging, opportunities. And purpose.
Our people shape our culture every day. Explore the different testimonials, and find out more about what it is like to work at Weightmans.
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