The results of RollOnFriday’s Best Law Firms to Work At 2025 survey are here, revealing where people in private practice are happy, and where they curl into a ball and pray for a recruitment consultant to call.
The survey saw over 7,000 people rating how satisfied they are with their firm's pay, work/life balance, career development, management, culture, and office.
This year’s poll found the average person in private practice is… pretty content, giving their firm an average score of 67%.
The typical law firm inhabitant is least satisfied with pay (61%) and most satisfied with the office and amenities (71%). About 1,000 more women entered the survey than men, but the two sexes felt similarly, producing similar average scores across all six categories.
Partners were the happiest constituency overall, putting their overall satisfaction with the firms they own, run and conquered at 77%. The next jolliest bunch was business services staff, at 72%, followed by trainees with 70%.
Satisfaction drops off on qualification, with junior solicitors giving an average overall score of 62%, and senior solicitors giving the lowest score, of 59%.
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