OUR FIRMAs well as providing quality legal services to our clients, we also offer a range of added value professional services including a dedicated investments and pensions team and an integrated town and country planning service.We are committed to growth, in terms of both our business and our people, and currently have over 600 people working for us. We have four office locations: Newcastle, Tees Valley, York (which will be moving to Leeds in early 2012) and London. We are one of the largest law firms in the country to have gained both Investors in People and the industry standard Lexcel accreditation.We recruit talented people to provide the best quality service to our clients and are proud of our warm, welcoming and open culture.DICKINSON DEES IS A LEADING COMMERCIAL LAW FIRM WITH A NATIONAL REPUTATION. WE PROVIDE LEGAL SERVICES FOR CORPORATE, COMMERCIAL, PUBLIC SECTOR AND PRIVATE CLIENTS ACROSS THE UK. OUR CLIENTS SPAN THE LENGTH AND BREADTH OF THE COUNTRY. 4

OUR CLIENTSWHEN YOU ARE THINKING ABOUT THE SORT OF FIRM YOU WANT TO JOIN, ONE OF THE THINGS YOU'LL LOOK AT IS THE SORT OF COMPANY THEY KEEP. WHO ARE THEIR CLIENTS AND ARE THOSE CLIENTS LIKELY TO HAVE INTERESTING AND CHALLENGING WORK THAT WILL HELP YOU DEVELOP YOUR PROFESSIONAL SKILLS? At Dickinson Dees we can offer the opportunity to work with some impressive household names. During your training contract you can expect to work with a wide range of our clients; your role - just like the rest of our team - will be to ensure that we deliver the best quality service, on time and to budget.We have a client list that we are very proud of - many are leaders in their own sector. Names you will recognise from our client list include Arriva, Grainger, Gap and Nexus.5