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Flexible Working

We’re always happy to talk flexible working, and many of our colleagues work flexibly in different ways. During any recruitment process we’re open to discussing the role and what flexibility means to you.

Una organización integradora

Nos comprometemos a atraer, retener y desarrollar a personas de orígenes diversos, con distintas experiencias vitales y perspectivas, porque la diversidad de pensamiento es fundamental para nuestro éxito. Nos comprometemos a acoger y animar a todos los compañeros, para que todos tengan las mismas oportunidades de participar, marcar la diferencia y progresar. Nos esforzamos por comprender y erradicar cualquier barrera involuntaria colaborando con nuestras redes de colegas: Access (BAME), Spectrum (LGBT+), Parents & Carers, Working Dads y GEN+. Varias de nuestras iniciativas están dirigidas a atraer y apoyar a grupos infrarrepresentados, como nuestro trabajo con Aspiring Solicitors, la Black Solicitors Network, el programa Disability Confident, Working Families y nuestro programa Career Returners.

My husband and I took Shared Parental Leave with our first child in 2021. We chose to take leave at the same time, so we spent the first 8 weeks of our son's life together, after which I continued with maternity leave, returning to work when our son was 7 months old. Taking Shared Parental Leave has had so many unexpected benefits. We anticipated that it would make things easier to have both of us around at the beginning, especially as we were first time parents, and in circumstances where we knew upfront that I would have long recovery. However, what we didn't know was how much it would benefit my husband's relationship with our son and also our communication with regards to parenting. Working in the same profession and having similar ambitions, it has been important to us to try and create an equal division of labour when it comes to family life. Taking Shared Parental Leave meant that my husband knew and continues to know how to care for our son just as well as I do, but also that our son is happy to seek comfort from either of us, so since being back at work the responsibility to get up in the middle of the night or drop everything when childcare goes wrong, falls equally between us. It worked so well that when our second is due later this year, we will take Shared Parental Leave again, with my husband using 12 weeks this time.

Harriet Hawkins , Associate

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