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About Ellisons

Ellisons are there for you

Ellisons is one of the region’s oldest, most established and fastest growing firms. We’re independent, partner-led, rooted in our communities and trusted by our clients: business owners, senior management teams, individuals and families.

With a team of 300 colleagues located across our offices in East of England, we have a proven track record of providing clients with first class personalised service and advice, enabling them to make the right decisions. As a full-service firm, we are able to work together with specialists across various areas to provide the best advice and solutions for our clients. We look after our clients’ interests by analysing risk, safeguarding assets and resolving disputes. We believe that it is this philosophy that has led to the continued growth of the firm and a record of client retention that we are rightly very proud of.

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Our people are at the heart of our story. For over 250 years, Ellisons has been in the corner of our clients, communities and colleagues. Discover what makes our firm a great place to build your career and see how you could become part of the next chapter.

Careers

OUR APPROACH

The culture of Ellisons is centred around our clients, colleagues and community

Ellisons has been established for over 250 years, and this exceptional longevity is attributed to our tradition of proactive, friendly and highly-personalised service to our clients. Providing exceptional service to our clients through excellent relationship management, investment in our colleagues, and strong local networks is our purpose.

This client service tradition is enshrined in the Ellisons Way – a set of practices and fundamental principles permeating the firm’s DNA. The Ellisons Way is about being a Trusted Advisor, ensuring we look after client’s needs and providing them with a full network of support. We will always provide the best service possible, which means we focus on the relationship with our clients and act as their Trusted Advisor in all aspects of their life.

Although rooted locally, Ellisons has a growing international presence aided by membership of the Alliott Global Alliance (a worldwide alliance of professional firms) enabling us to refer clients to a trusted network of professionals, providing an integrated service across the world.

How we work

The Ellisons Way

At Ellisons, our values are embedded in everything we do. We call it the Ellisons Way. They form a basis for how we work, they help us set our goals for the year ahead, and help us drive our actions; so we stay focused on what’s important to us.

Our colleagues are at the heart of our business. We do all we can to support and develop them in their careers and on a personal level; ensuring that we do all we can to focus on health and wellbeing.

We pride ourselves on our customer service and offer all our colleagues support and training in every aspect of client care. We will always provide the best service possible, which means we focus on the relationship with our clients and act as their Trusted Advisor in all aspects of their life.

We pride ourselves on the closeness and integration between all our departments and offices, despite the fact we are a growing firm. Whilst having a very clear management structure, Ellisons is not hierarchical; we are very relaxed and we believe that everyone within the firm contributes to making the firm a success. By bringing experts together from across the firm, we work collaboratively on matters that span across different specialisms, making the clients’ experience seamlessly joined-up.

We employ very talented people who love what they do, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously! We celebrate our colleagues’ hard work, and we support each other. We enjoy life – inside and outside of work. We also work with complete flexibility. Colleagues work from home and in the office in a way that suits them, their team, and their families.

We are committed to our colleagues, nurturing our talented people and invest in them and their future with us, believing everyone should have a personalised development plan. We run an annual learning and development programme that is open to everyone and offers a wide range of opportunities to colleagues. The ‘Ellisons Academy’ is designed specifically to support colleagues in their chosen career path, helping people prepare for promotion when the time is right for them. We offer professional development qualifications alongside offering solicitor apprenticeships, CILex qualifications and Trainee Solicitor programmes.

We are committed to supporting the local community through the work that we do, our chosen providers and other engagements. Our colleagues pride themselves in their involvement in the community. So many of our clients run local, family-based businesses, and providing them with the support and advice that they need is very important to us.

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Supporting roles

Community

At Ellisons, we continue to play an active and supportive role in the communities within which we work, supporting charities, clubs, associations and not-for-profit organisations wherever possible. This is something that has always been important to Ellisons, throughout our very long history.