At Lawrence Stephens, we provide our clients with specialist legal services across a wide range of commercial clients; from private individuals, to SMEs and PLCs. Most of our clients manage businesses in a turnover range of £3 million to £50 million. And our value doesn’t stop there. We are large enough to advise on complex matters, yet bespoke enough to ensure our people and the quality of our work remains exceptional and dynamic at all times. 

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When you join Lawrence Stephens, you will be given responsibility and autonomy from your first day and will be supported through each stage of your career development by experienced and understanding senior staff. We guarantee that you will have boundless opportunities to achieve and accelerate your legal career at our firm.

We provide high-quality, specialist legal services for matters related to banking, corporate and commercial, construction, dispute resolution, employment, family, private wealth and succession planning, real estate, real estate finance, regulatory solutions and sports and entertainment. We work with a range of corporate and private clients from private companies, financial institutions and SMEs, to entrepreneurs, executives and high-net-worth individuals. 

Established in 1997 by our three founding partners, Steven Bernstein, Lawrence Kelly and Stephen Messias, Lawrence Stephens has enjoyed continued success and growth ever since. Our lawyers are driven, enthusiastic, approachable and commercially aware. Find out more about our story.

Our firm values are behind the promise we make to our clients to be:

*proactive
We proactively monitor the legal landscape in relation to our clients’ needs – so our advice is always relevant and strategically aligned to your goals.

*collaborative
Our collaborative approach sets us apart. We keep lines of communication open at all times – and stay by your side for every step of the journey.

*personal
Our people make our business. And by letting our people be our guide, our culture thrives, innovation flourishes and we deliver positive outcomes for our clients.

*exceptional
We are committed to being exceptional in everything that we do and measure our success by the trusted relationships that we have built with our clients.

Our team is close-knit, friendly and sociable; we believe that staff wellbeing is of paramount importance which is why we have a wellness programme run by our fee-earners. We regularly arrange company social events, wellbeing webinars and events, and have a dedicated team of mental health guardians.

Everyone at Lawrence Stephens has the chance to make a difference; we are passionate about supporting the community, protecting the environment and promoting diversity. We also run charitable initiatives throughout the year to raise funds for our nominated charity. A great example of this is our LawLinks initative, set up and run by one of our newly qualified solicitors during their time as a trainee.

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Trainees at Lawrence Stephens are given varied, well-rounded experience tailored to individual's interests. We run a programme of four six-month seats, which kicks off with an induction programme, including frontloaded training and cohort socials. Each trainee has regular check-ins during their training contract with the training principle to assess their experience, progress and career development.

Everyone at Lawrence Stephens has the chance to make a difference; we are passionate about supporting our trainees to make the most our of their training contracts as possible.  A great example of this is our LawLinks initative, set up and run by one of our newly qualified solicitors during their time as a trainee.

We look for people with drive and commitment, independence, creative thinking and personality. Our size allows our trainees to shine. You will be given reposonsibility and autonomy, with support from our senior fee-earners when needed. 

We like our trainees to stay with us when their training contract finishes and embark on the first stage of their legal career with Lawrence Stephens.

We have hybrid cohorts of SQE and LPC qualified trainee solicitors and welcome applications from those who have qualifed, or are currently studying, the SQE.

Lawrence Stephens is committed to promoting diversity. We have a robust diversity policy and all members of the firm undertake annual equality and diversity training to ensure that our principles are understood and endorsed.

As we continue to grow, we continue to keep diversity as a focal point and to foster the diverse backgrounds and talent amongst our people.

Some highlights from this year's diversity data are:

 - We are a young firm, with 63% of us under the age of 44, and 26% of our management positions are 44 years old or under.

 - We represent over 12 ethnicities and six religions.

 - 60% of us are women.

 - 6% of us have a disability under the Equality Act 2010.

 - Almost half of our people did not have a parent attend university.

 In order to maintain and ensure diversity, we take the following steps:

 - we recruit from the widest possible talent pool;

 - we communicate and practice, internally and externally, the principles of the diversity policy that we have developed; and

 - we monitor diversity levels.

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• Residential real estate
• Commercial real estate
• Dispute resolution
• Corporate & commercial
• Family
• Private wealth & succession planning (contentious & non-contentious)
• Banking
• Employment
• Sports & entertainment

• Corporate & Commercial
• General Commercial

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