Derby law firm recruiting seven people a week
After making a pledge to recruit 100 more professionals during 2016, a Derby-based law firm has smashed its target after growing its workforce by 120 since January.
Knights says it is recruiting on average seven employees a week.
David Beech, CEO for Knights said that growth in the legal sector was imperative to help support a thriving economy.
“We have been working with UK-wide companies for years to help them with their business needs. With a growing team of 375 and more than half of our professionals working within real estate and many more in commercial, asset management, employment, tax and private client we’re growing all the time to meet the demand for our services,” he said.
“Because the need for legal services is entrenched in every business, law firms do make a significant contribution to the economy and now we’re making steps to diversify and offer more non-legal services to our clients.
“We’ve always had a long-term plan to invest in our employees and we have structured the business to ensure that we can consistently maintain an ongoing recruitment programme across our seven regional offices.
“Since opening a new office in Derby last August, we quickly attracted some of the best professionals in the Midlands. Since January 2016 25 new recruits are based at our Midlands offices whilst working across our seven regional offices.”
Knights is a UK top-70 law firm with more than 375 professionals and a £40 million turnover. The firm has offices in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Cheltenham, Chester, Hale, Derby, Oxford and Colchester.
