Business Professionals

You want to achieve your full potential – and you can do that at Clifford Chance. You’ll make the most of your skills and talent playing a vital role enabling the delivery of legal advice for clients in every sector worldwide. And you’ll see that our global reach means more than location. It means more ways for you to learn and develop. Sharing ideas, knowledge and expertise our central teams work beyond borders, exploring new ways of working to deliver client service that’s second to none. We encourage creativity and diversity of thought, and we’ll value the contributions you make to the firm’s vision. So, bring your international mindset and collaborative approach and we’ll empower you to embrace every challenge – to make the progress you want.

Clifford Chance is one of the world's pre-eminent law firms. With a global reach and thousands of lawyers working from dozens of offices around the world, we offer expert advice to clients on all aspects of commercial law.

We work with multinationals, governments and regulatory bodies across five continents. Many of our deals are newsworthy. Often they demand the kind of knowledge that only international, cross-practice teams can provide.

Our reputation in the field is formidable. That's why organisations turn to us not just for legal expertise but for advice on their most critical business issues.

This is what our seven practice areas provide. It’s a no-nonsense, can-do culture. Partners are hands-on with the work and newly qualified lawyers are expected to demonstrate leadership behaviour from a very early stage. Every single person is critical to the success of the team. The quality of our trainees and lawyers helps us to deliver the best for our clients and this is a key reason why clients come back to us.

Whatever your path, you'll gain an insight into our global deals, our high-profile clients and our collaborative culture. As an integral member of the team, you'll also rapidly develop your legal and business skills.

Brand, Communications & Marketing (BCM) Business Operations Client & Market Development (CMD) Finance Innovation Knowledge and Information Legal Project Management People Practice Assistants

Brand, Communications & Marketing (BCM)

The Brand, Communications & Marketing (BCM) function plays an important role in supporting the firm in achieving its vision and progressing its strategy. Increasing our ability and opportunities to engage with our clients and wider stakeholder groups through compelling, differentiated and data-driven marketing programmes will underpin our future strategic and commercial success.

Business Operations

The business operations teams are at the heart of ensuring our clients' needs are met and that we deliver an outstanding service every time. Comprising a wide range of roles and teams encompassing reception, front desk, switchboard, health & safety, the document production unit, business continuity and office services, these teams ensure that the office runs smoothly 24 hours a day.

Client & Market Development (CMD)

We have an ambitious global strategy which puts clients at the very heart of everything the firm does. We have a clear mandate around developing our existing strengths and relationships whilst increasing our market share in new markets. Our Client & Market Development function is pivotal in making the firm's vision a reality.

Finance

Our Finance team is at the heart of our strategy, involved in a variety of areas including managing accounts, budgets and forecasts, providing trend and competitor analysis and other statistical support for partner presentations, as well as cash management, remuneration, internal audit, procurement and pricing, and ultimately ensuring that the firm is compliant, efficient and profitable. The Clifford Chance Procurement department provides best in class strategic guidance and support to the firm with regards to all external supplier interactions.

Innovation

Our commitment to clients means we are reshaping our services around your evolving needs to make delivery quicker, simpler, more efficient and more robust. We use a range of specialised capabilities in the delivery of our legal services including expert project management and continuous improvement, specialist resourcing through our delivery centres, cutting edge legal technology and data science, and a dedicated research and development team who design and build digital solutions with and for our clients.

Knowledge and Information

Clifford Chance's knowledge programme aims to bring the best collective wisdom and knowledge to bear to enable the firm's people to deliver the highest quality client service and to work as efficiently and effectively as possible. The Central Knowledge Management team is dedicated to delivering knowledge solutions that help achieve this objective by optimising the capture, organisation, distribution, retrieval and re-use of our knowledge. The goal of Information Services (IS) is to ensure all internal clients (fee earning and business professionals) have access to knowledge and information resources which meet business needs cost effectively.

Legal Project Management

As businesses respond to changing markets and new technologies, they need legal services delivered at speed but without any compromise on quality. Our proven Legal Project Management skills mean that, no matter how large or complex the task, each matter is organized and delivered efficiently, while also creating the greatest value for our clients.

People

Practice Assistants

Our practice assistants are integral to our business, providing high-quality support to lawyers across all practice areas in order to deliver the best possible service to our clients on every matter, every time. This ranges from providing administrative support to producing a variety of complex reports and documents alongside financial, matter management and project managing larger tasks. Our practice assistants are active in creating positive, collaborative working relationships with our lawyers and clients recognising that exceptional client service relies on us all succeeding both individually and as a team. Continuous training and development is core to the success of our practice assistants in order to offer consistently high-quality support as the needs of our lawyers and clients evolve