You will work for multinational clients in a number of different legal and industrial sectors, with multiple commercial, legal and linguistic skills being paramount. These firms tend to have excellent support facilities, large staffing quotas and high levels of remuneration. Although UK-based many of these firms will have an international workload and strong associations with other firms around the world. You can expect solid support services and facilities here. They are often the result of mergers between several strong regional practices.
Clients are mostly UK public and private companies, and local and public authorities.
Work is often done on a national basis using expertise across the country wherever appropriate. Their clients are mostly the public and private companies in the region, and they often offer 'private client' services. The smaller regional firms tend to concentrate more on private client work. As the name suggests, these are small firms which tend to offer high quality work in a limited field. Often they are innovative and provide a high level of personal service.