Our Culture

It's about creating the ideal conditions for your success.

This means your contribution is valued, your opinion counts and your success is recognised, celebrated and rewarded. In short, we’ve created an environment which you can thrive in.

Our people are hard-working, commercial, ambitious and enthusiastic. We strive for excellence in everything we do and are committed to giving practical advice that helps improve our clients’ lives.

With ‘freedom’ as one of our core values, we encourage all our people to develop skills and specialisms that will take their career and the firm’s future forward.

What sets Greenwoods apart is the delivery of an excellent client experience because we are passionate about solving problems. You are encouraged to build strong client relationships and are given the time to do so, which ensures we understand every aspect of our client’s situation.

We maintain a real focus on work/life balance. As a result, we attract and retain exceptional team players who support each other to deliver brilliant outcomes.

A word from our Managing Partner.

“Having joined Greenwoods as a trainee I’ve seen many changes, we’ve always been ambitious and have always had our sights set firmly on growth, not only the growth of the business, although we’ve certainly achieved that, but also the growth of everyone within it.

One of the most rewarding things about being Managing Partner is seeing people’s careers develop, seeing them confidently move to the next step against a context of transparency and openness around career progression.

We support people. We provide autonomy, opportunity and flexibility – and you’ll be part of a peer support network across the firm that is second to none.

At Greenwoods you really can develop the career you aspire to. And we’ll be right by your side helping you to make that happen.”

Robert Dillarstone, Managing Partner

Building on your talent.

Learning is essential to career development.

Our quarterly appraisal process offers dedicated time for you to focus on how your career is progressing. Together with your manager, you’ll develop your personal development plan – and importantly you will receive support to keep it on track.

As you would expect, we offer a range of ways to learn, from formal training programmes and technical webinars, to group discussions and access to online resources. In addition, through our Mentoring and Skills Exchange programmes, we provide a host of opportunities for you to share your knowledge and learn from your talented colleagues.

Diversity is part of who we are.

At Greenwoods, we are committed to championing diversity, fairness and inclusion (DF&I) in all aspects of our business. Doing so is central to our success as a firm because we are better able to understand and meet the needs of our clients if our organisation reflects the businesses and individuals we serve.

Our DF&I Forum, a key part of the implementation of our “respect” value, helps translate that commitment into positive and practical actions. DF&I Forum members work together to design and deliver initiatives to foster belonging and complement our business strategy, the aim being to create a workplace culture where there are no limits on our individual ambitions.

“As Chair of the DF&I Forum, I’m looking forward to working with the Forum to collectively generate ideas on how to celebrate and champion DF&I at Greenwoods. We will learn together how to best deliver initiatives to strengthen DF&I at the firm and model the behaviours that will lead to lasting change.”

Francesca Jus-Burke, Chair of Greenwoods DF&I Forum

You can be part of that too.

download our diversity survey

Giving something back.

Visit our Environment page to read more about our commitment to reducing the environmental impact of delivering our legal services, and growing and developing our firm in a sustainable way. Including the range community and charity initiatives members of our Greenwoods family are involved with.

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