Over our long history, our firm has developed a distinctive spirit, which you can sense from your very first day at work. We think it’s important that our offices are straightforward and pleasant places to work. We show appreciation for each other and each others’ work and can rely on our colleagues in difficult situations.
Internationality and Team Work
Challenging assignments and the opportunity to get close to the operations of interesting client companies are reasons why many lawyers choose to work at Castrén & Snellman. About half of our assignments are international, which is an important factor for many of our employees in their career choices. We have a strong culture of working together, and most of our day-to-day work—both client work and work in our support groups—is done in teams.
Good Pay and Benefits
Naturally, our salaries are competitive and we offer extensive benefits:
- extensive occupational health care
- telephone benefit
- lunch vouchers in Finland
- travel insurance that is also valid outside of work time if the employee’s work involves travelling
- exercise vouchers in Finland (value €400 a year)
- care for sick children in Finland
- three-month paid maternity leave
- paid paternity leave
In addition to a monthly salary, our lawyers have a bonus system, which is based on personal performance. All our employees receive a profit-sharing bonus based on the company’s result.
Favourite Student Employer
Over the years, our positive workplace atmosphere has received numerous recognitions from students. The most recent is the best law student employer of 2011 award. Our firm received the award from The Association of Finnish Lawyers based on a survey of student working conditions carried out in the summer of 2011. We received an honourable mention in the same survey in 2009. The criteria included whether students felt equal to other employees, the pay and terms of employment, the workplace atmosphere, the meaningfulness of the work as well as flexibility at different stages of study.
We were also number one in the 2011 Universum Student Survey, which lists Finland’s best employers according to students. This was the third year in a row that we were Finland’s law students’ favourite law firm. We placed third overall, right behind the Ministry of Justice and the courts.
In 2010, Castrén & Snellman was the first legal services firm picked as Finland’s best summer employer. The winner was chosen by a jury of student members of trade union confederation Akava. Minister of Labour Anni Sinnemäki chaired the jury. We were particularly praised for our flexible master’s thesis programme, which summer employees can apply to. The jury also noted that we offer students a very versatile and thorough orientation programme as well as good working conditions.
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