Business development

Herbert Smith is a market-leading international law firm, attracting some of the most talented people in the market, as well as leading clients and transactions. It’s a stimulating and fast-moving environment, where you will be supporting the industry’s top lawyers who are recognised as being at the cutting edge of business development work and legal thinking.

Global opportunities
Much of our work involves providing cross-practice, international advice to clients. The challenge of working across different cultures and national borders adds another dimension to the work of the business development support team.

It is also important for us to have a number of our people based locally in our network of 15 offices, spread across Asia, the Middle East and Europe. This provides a number of secondment opportunities for our people to work across our international network, which we actively encourage.

Grow with us
Over the last five years Herbert Smith has doubled in size, both in terms of revenue and people. We continue to have ambitious plans for the future and our business development department will grow to support a wider, more complex group of practices. In addition, our partners’ increased knowledge of the benefits of quality business development support is leading to even greater growth in our business development marketing teams.

Wide variety of roles
As we grow, and the business development and marketing function becomes more complex, the need for specialisation becomes more important. Within pure business development, we now have individuals who concentrate not only in individual practice areas, but also on the contentious and non-contentious side. In addition, we have people dedicated to key client account management and sector expertise. We also have specialists in other areas including research, who are an integral part of the wide business development offering. On the marketing and communications side, we have a highly regarded team with a number of specialisations, including public relations, print and design, e-business, and web support and branding.

Career progression
We invest heavily in our people to help them achieve long-term rewarding careers with the firm. By providing comprehensive training and career development we ensure you will be able to fulfil your potential. We’re always looking at opportunities within our network to enhance the roles people perform, for the benefit of both individuals and the firm.

Dynamic industry
The legal sector is going through huge and rapid change. Working for an international law firm is now more exciting than ever. Herbert Smith can offer you a truly rewarding career working for one of the world’s elite law firms.