It’s easy to be cynical about law firms in ‘good employer’ league tables. For years, a select band of regional law firms have made The Sunday Times’ 100 Best Companies to Work For list but City firms – which used to regard being seen as tough, elitist environments as some kind of badge of honour – didn’t bother. You might see a Camerons or a Simmons lurking around the lower regions of these lists but that was about it (and many in the City probably thought that was evidence of what a bunch of pinko liberals those suspect London firms were).
Sometimes it was also hard to take the results seriously. On one occasion a few years ago, one firm that had traditionally ranked well was dismayed to see its ranking go up in a year in which job cuts had been made and morale had clearly taken a pounding.
