Help us change the face of law
Bring your unique voice, original ideas, dynamic approach, and open attitude to a firm that is facing the future with confidence. We promise to give you every opportunity to maximise your potential.
Bring your unique voice, original ideas, dynamic approach, and open attitude to a firm that is facing the future with confidence. We promise to give you every opportunity to maximise your potential.
CMS is a future facing firm that pushes boundaries in an ever-changing world.
With offices across the globe, we combine deep local market understanding with a global overview, giving us the ability not only to see what’s coming, but to shape it.
We see ourselves as more than just legal advisors. We’re here to partner with our clients. To not only resolve current issues but anticipate future challenges and provide innovative solutions to meet these.
For us, the future of law isn’t just about what we can do for our clients. It also about what we can do for our people. We’re committed to providing a supportive, inclusive, socially responsible and flexible environment in which every member of our team can thrive.
Here are just a few examples of our social impact.
Through our partnership with the East London Business Alliance, we regularly organise environmental volunteering events for our staff and clients at City Farms, with the charity Core Landscapes and with the Gasworks Dock Partnership in East London.
We’re a founding partner of A4ID – a global charity that works in partnership with the world’s leading law firms to provide free access to legal advice for Non Governmental Organisations. We’ve provided pro bono legal advice on nearly 100 projects, working with a range of international charities.
In partnership with The Access Project, we help motivated students from disadvantaged backgrounds to improve their grades and secure places at top universities. To date, our volunteers have provided nearly 1,000 hours of academic tuition and counting.
We support Social Bite, a charity that aims to end homelessness in Scotland; the Booth Centre, a day centre that offers advice, activities and support to homeless people in Manchester; and the Whitechapel Mission, a day centre in East London for people who are homeless or in need.
Across all our core areas of expertise, our lawyers show the openness, boldness, agility, and dynamism required to deliver future facing advice and insight.
We like to get fully involved in the worlds our clients work in, rather than just watch from the sidelines. It’s an approach that enables us to truly place their interests and priorities at the heart of everything we do.
We’re innovators, determined to change the face of law by delivering new solutions that help our clients.
It’s our in-depth knowledge of the areas we work in that makes the difference. Our expertise enables us to anticipate trends, so we can advise and inspire clients whose future success requires lawyers and business partners with the vision, intelligence, and confidence to predict what’s around the corner.
That’s why we look for lawyers with these attributes to train and mentor them to further develop their skills throughout their careers with us.
“From my first interaction with CMS, I was impressed by how welcoming and supportive the people are and how keen they are for you to get involved.”
We’re proud of who we are, of what we’ve achieved and of all the people who play a part in our success. It’s incredibly rewarding when our collective achievements are recognised externally too. Here are some of our recent accolades.
Graduate Employer 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023
Law Firm of the Year (2018)
Recognised for five consecutive years (2015-20)
Best Virtual Internship 2020 (for the CMS Academy)
Be part of a top ten global law firm where you can learn about the business of law and experience what it’s like to be a future facing lawyer.
