The continuing turmoil in the legal job market has not had a negative impact on the quality of work being handled by lawyers at the UK’s top firms, according to a major new research project.

Legal Week‘s annual Employee Satisfaction Report, which this year canvassed the views of almost 4,000 lawyers below partner level, found a belief that the standard of work and the quality of firms’ clients has returned to pre-crisis levels, having dipped significantly in the years since 2007.