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Our Dublin team moved to their new office earlier this month. The Dublin city office is based at Three Haddington Building. It is our fourth office move in 12 months as the firm continues to grow.
DACB are delighted to have been shortlisted for three AllAboutLaw awards based on feedback from our trainees and early career solicitors – ‘Best Company Culture’, and for our Vacation Scheme, ‘Best for Growing Confidence’ and ‘Best for Level of Responsibility’.
DACB are delighted that we've been shortlisted for three AllAboutLaw awards based on feedback from our trainees and early career solicitors – ‘Best Company Culture’, and for our Vacation Scheme, ‘Best for Growing Confidence’ and ‘Best for Level of Responsibility’.
We've been shortlisted this week in the UK Diversity Legal Awards 2019 in the 'Law Firm Diversity & Inclusion Initiative', these important awards recognise our internal network group working with BAME colleagues. We aim to provide diverse role models at all levels across the firm as well as promoting visibility and opportunities for BAME individuals both internally and externally.
Our recruitment window for both 2021 and 2022 training contracts will open on 1 October 2019. There will be 20 trainee vacancies per year with opportunities in London, Bristol, Manchester and Leeds. Further detail about the recruitment process and information about our vacation schemes and assessment centres will be available on our DACB careers pages from 1 October.
We were delighted to be named as Cyber Law Firm Firm of the year at the Insider Cyber Awards. Well done to all the team who contributed to this, a great accolade.
DAC Beachcroft has established a dedicated team of specialist project managers who will be responsible for corralling, managing and delivering business improvement and change across the business. By launching the team, the firm aims to bring creative ideas to fruition, evaluate and prioritise investment, and embed robust protocols around project creation and delivery in all parts of the business – all with a view to driving forward change and innovation for the benefit of the business and its clients. Dubbed the Business Improvement and Change team, or “BIC”, the team is tasked with joining up the dots around the business, ensuring that projects within the firm are not developed in silos but are instead delivered with a multi-disciplinary approach. BIC will help DAC Beachcroft balance risk and resource across the firm’s entire change portfolio and enable it to maximise the benefits of each business improvement it introduces.
We are now open for business in Belfast ! This is the second new office the firm has launched this year, having opened in Paris in January. DAC Beachcroft has joined forces with Northern Irish firm McKinty and Wright, taking on that firm’s highly regarded insurance business. Seventeen fee earners, including six partners, have joined DAC Beachcroft and will focus on litigation, professional negligence and risk management. “Opening in Belfast is a strategic move for us in direct response to demand from our clients,” said David Pollitt, DAC Beachcroft’s Managing Partner. “For the insurance sector, in particular, Northern Ireland is an important location, and for us to have a presence across all jurisdictions in the UK means we can better serve our clients.
We are pleased to announce our financial results for 2018/19, showing a fifth successive year of financial improvement. In headline terms: - Total turnover was £243 million, an increase of £13 million (6%) on the previous year. - Profit before tax grew to £52 million, an increase of £5 million (10%) on the firm's 2017/2018 results. - Profit per member grew 7% to circa £570k, maintaining and improving upon the ‘above £500k’ benchmark surpassed for the first time last year. - The firm again reduced its net debt, having £1 million net cash by year end, ahead of planned investment. - Lock-up days also improved. This is the firm’s fifth successive year of combined turnover growth, profit before tax growth, profit before tax margin growth, profit per member growth, and net debt reduction.
Our Managing Partner, David Pollitt has been named by The Lawyer within their Hot 100. The list recognises the 100 as 'the lawyers of the moment, shaping the legal profession right now'. Well done to David !