Hall Brown Family Law has been named one of the UK’s Best Places to Work for the third year in a row.
The firm is once again recognised as one of the 10 very best medium-sized companies in the annual listing compiled by the Sunday Times.
In addition, Hall Brown has earned a first commendation as one of the country’s four best workplaces for women.
The Sunday Times’ list is made up of organisations believe by independent researchers to have Britain’s leading workplace cultures.
Managing Partner James Brown said the latest honour from the Sunday Times was particularly special as it came just weeks after Hall Brown’s 10th anniversary.
“When we launched, we were determined not only to provide the very highest standard of client support possible but to be the kind of place where people really wanted to work.
“In that sense, being classed with the other great organisations on the Sunday Times’ list is a genuine achievement and source of immense satisfaction.
“To retain our place on that list three years in a row shows that we have certainly not rested on our laurels but have continued to live up to our original objective.
“Being included as one of the best workplaces for women is something which we are also incredibly proud of.
“What it all shows is that we place an emphasis both on recruiting some very talented individuals and investing time and effort looking after them once they join us.”
In all, the latest edition of the Sunday Times’ Best Places to Work list features 567 organisations across multiple business disciplines, broken down into the UK’s most capable Very Big, Big, Medium and Small employers.
Hall Brown is highlighted in the Best Medium Places to Work category, which is open to those companies or charities with between 50 and 249 staff.
The Sunday Times’ classification also identifies the best workplaces for women, the LGBTQIA+ community, disabled employees, ethnic minorities, younger and older workers, and those where staff enjoy the highest rates of wellbeing.
It is the largest such study in the UK and based on research conducted by the employee experience platform WorkL.
Using a survey devised by behavioural scientists, data analysts, psychologists, business leaders and academics, WorkL scored nominated companies based on their performance in relation to employee engagement and staff well-being.
Zoe Thomas, Editor of The Sunday Times Best Places to Work, said that, regardless of size and sector, firms making the final list were helping staff to forge careers for the future.
“The thread joining them is the belief that a happy workforce is a stepping stone to better performance, faster growth and bigger profits.
“More than that, there’s a collective instinct that a contented rank-and-file is a worthwhile business goal in and of itself.”
The Sunday Times’ finding means that Hall Brown has once more completed a clean sweep of the UK’s most significant legal and employer rankings, having already placed in the top tier of Doyle’s, Legal 500, Chambers and Partners, eprivateclient and the Times’ Best Law Firms listings.
It also caps a remarkable first decade for the boutique family law practice.
Having opened its headquarters in Manchester in April 2016, it now also has offices in London, Sheffield, Leeds, Birmingham and – most recently – in Liverpool as a result of continued strong demand for its services.
The firm now employs 84 staff nationwide, 62 of whom are fee earners.
