Traditionally, lawyers tended to be drawn to ‘City’ firms in the UK’s legal centres, London, Manchester, Leeds and Bristol. However, there is an alternative, an alternative that more and more lawyers are now choosing to follow because it offers a more appealing career path and working life.

This alternative is to join a quality regional law firm.

When it comes to choosing whether you’d prefer to work in a City firm or a regional firm, you need to weigh up what suits you best both at this stage of your career and for the future. How specialist do you want your practice to be? How hands on do you want to be? How much influence do you want to have on the development of your practice and your firm? How close do you want to be to your clients?

City firms of course have a larger profile. They’ll also be seen to be working on higher profile matters. They are also likely to offer higher salaries but will set challenging targets. But is this really what’s most important to you? There are some very attractive benefits to working at a well-known and well regarded regional firm:

You’ll have far greater flexibility with your working hours allowing you to create a much more conformable work-life balance (withless commuting time!).

You’ll be surprised at the high quality work on offer.

You’ll have an opportunity to build strong, close and lastingworking relationships with our clients so you are best positioned to help them achieve the very best outcomes.

Living outside the UK’s major cities is cheaper; your salary will go much further.

You are more likely to be recognised, appreciated and rewarded for what you deliver in a smaller firm.

Increased recognition is likely to enable faster career progression.

You will be given more responsibility for your own caseload, particularly at the beginning of your career where the focus will be on developing your skills, not supporting more senior colleagues.

You will get to work on a more varied caseload and broader experience will give you more rounded experience.

Most of all, you will enjoy all these benefits whilstworking in a more relaxed and friendly working environment. City firms demand the consistent delivery of a high number of billable hours, and this doesn’t suit everyone; many prefer a smaller, less hierarchical and more close knit team focused on building abusiness that positively impacts clients in the best way.

FMGS is a well-established and highly regarded specialist commercial law firm.  We deliver acomplete legal service that spans dispute resolution, corporate, employment, commercial property, and private client to a national client base that is growing quickly. However, what really sets us apart is the working environment we offer and the quality of our work and client base.

While we pride ourselves on the delivering commercially focused legal advice of the highest quality, we place just as much importance on making sure FMGS delivers all the benefits listed above.

Whatever stage of your legal career you are at and however you’d like your practice to develop, we offer a very viable alternative to City life, an opportunity to develop your legal career in Lancashire in a friendly but ambitious firm that is building a truly dynamic future.

‍To find out more about how we can help you finda legal job in Preston and develop a legal career in Lancashire, please contact us today to arrange an initial chat.