Much more than a law firm

RPC is a radically different, modern, progressive City law firm offering our clients extremely high levels of customer service, expertise and creativity. We have a wide-ranging practice, some of the leading lawyers in their fields and great clients.

• 25% of our partners trained and qualified with us. So did our Managing Partner and several of our senior Partners. And so did 50% of the partners on our board.
• In 2010, we were ranked 2nd out of 71 firms in Legal Week’s ‘Client Satisfaction Report’ and we outscored all City, International and US Firms; in the 2011 report we came top overall for quality of commercial advice.
• We have offices in London, Hong Kong, Singapore and Bristol, and are a founder member of TerraLex, the second largest legal network in the world with representation in over 100 countries across the globe. (More than 25% of our revenue comes from overseas.)

 

MAKING A DIFFERENCE. BREAKING THE MOULD.

We don't have a rigid hierarchy. We were one of the first law firms in the UK to pioneer open working right across the board – up to, and including, our Managing Partner.
We believe that smart lawyers need to have smart business brains too. That’s why we ensure that our trainees learn about business while they’re learning the law.

 

Hands on experience.  Hands on support.

Our trainees are given real freedom, real responsibility and real opportunities. From day one you’ll be working with clients, meeting them at social events – and going to court. But you won’t just have hands-on experience… you’ll get hands-on, high quality support, too to provide just the right environment to foster learning, confidence building and the acquisition of skills. 

All of our trainees are introduced to CareerBuilder as part of their pre-joining programme.  This is RPC's unique Career Framework which sets out exactly what is expected of our lawyers as they develop their careers (from Trainee through every Career Level to Partner).  Our Trainees find CareerBuilder invaluable as it enables them to map their personal progress against all the areas they need to develop.  We use it to tailor personal development objectives and to focus regular feedback and we find that this really accelerates learning during the Training Contract, and beyond...