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Gain diverse experience, high-quality support and excellent benefits with a well-respected firm.

A place where you can progress

As a leading law firm, we handle a wide variety of interesting work that’s often high value and complex, giving you a prime opportunity to develop your career.  We focus on providing exceptional service for clients and have a supportive, collaborative culture to ensure each member of staff plays a crucial part in this.  Everyone is valued highly here.

Support for your success

We want you to excel so you can achieve your career ambitions and we can provide the very best service possible. Whatever your role, we encourage you to develop your skills and offer suitable training to help you fulfil your potential. If you’re a lawyer, we believe that as well as providing commercial advice, you should have the space to develop your commercial skills too.

Commercial mindset, diverse and inclusive environment

Your wellbeing is important to us, and we offer a range of initiatives to protect it. This includes massages, physiotherapy, free fruit and a cycle-to-work scheme. We also provide a healthcare cash plan and a pension, and our social committee regularly brings people together. While our CSR committee leads us in supporting our communities and our diversity, inclusivity and engagement committees ensure we consider everyone equally.

The pandemic has been a challenging time for everyone, so we made sure our staff were looked after throughout. You can find out how we dealt with working from home, keeping everyone up to date and engaged and how we managed to have quite a bit of fun along the way here.

Let’s talk about what we can achieve together

If you’re looking to develop your career and provide a dedicated service, we’d love to hear from you. Whether you’re just starting out in the law, are a solicitor with years of experience, or you work in a support position. Every employee has an important role in our success, and we’re interested to hear what you can contribute and what you’d like to achieve with us.

What is it like working at Schofield Sweeney?

“A great collaborative culture and working environment, staff are supported and have exposure to a varied and interesting workload. Everyone plays a part in providing the best quality service to our clients.” Rob Kelly
“We have a wide variety of high-quality work here meaning that something interesting is always going on.” Richard Stockdale
“Schofield Sweeney is a friendly firm with experienced individuals to learn from.”
“There is a really positive atmosphere at the firm. The Partners take the time to make it a supportive and enjoyable environment”
“The culture of the firm sets us apart. Everyone is valued and well looked after. Our wellbeing, social and ESG committees run a busy calendar of events, ensuring there is something for everyone. It’s a great place to work and develop your career.” Ann-Marie Keighley
“The personal progression that my job presents is amazing and what I enjoy the most; I have the opportunities to get involved in lots of exciting projects too.”

We offer our employees a range of benefits including:

  • Hybrid working
  • 33 days annual leave (inc. Bank holidays)
  • Auto-enrolled pension scheme, based on salary sacrifice
  • Healthcare cash plan and EAP
  • Free fruit weekly
  • Train season ticket loans

 

  • Colleague introduction scheme
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Death in service cover
  • One volunteer day a year
  • Commitment to personal and professional development
  • Social events throughout the year

It’s not all work; everyone has the opportunity to get involved with a huge range of voluntary and charitable activities

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Our values

Empathy

We put our clients first and always consider what other people may be thinking or feeling, so we can support them in the best way possible.

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Collaboration

We value the strengths of others and provide the freedom, support and framework to work closely as a team and with clients.

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Innovation

Whether we’re working for clients or handling an internal matter, we always search hard for better ways to achieve a stronger end result.

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Approachability

We want clients and colleagues to feel comfortable coming to us with questions and problems, knowing they’ll get a warm response.

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Interested in working for us?

Head over to the vacancies page to see our latest job offerings.

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Meet the team

With over 160 staff, many of our lawyers are specialists in complex fields or have considerable experience in high-profile and national cases. Based in our offices in Leeds, Bradford and Huddersfield, they bring these invaluable capabilities and market knowledge to you at a realistic cost.

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