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Dickinson Dees

1) Dickinson Dees have no Leeds office. They simply could not compete with the big ticket firms there. 2) They did take over a high street firm in York. There was never really an attempt to merge the two firms and each office looks down on the other. 3) the salaries shown look far above what is actually offered. In particular the on qualification salary has been boosted. 4) the PEP figure is out of date. That may have been accurate then but now it is way lower. 5) the fee earners number is misleading. It was boosted in 2005 to make the firm look bigger. Many of those counted are secretaries with no fee earning targets. 6) the real measure of the firm is the assistant numbers numbers compared to partners. There are far too many partners in each department. There are often more partners than assistants, unheard of in a bigger firm like Beachcroft, Eversheds or Linklaters. This means associates have limited career prospects; they end up doing work 2-4 years behind their qualification and assistants do the work of trainees / paralegals.

8-Apr-2010

6:57 am