Shepherd and Wedderburn

We recognise that our clients’ success – and therefore our own – depends on our firm being made up of the right people.

Our ambition is to be widely recognised as an employer of choice within the legal sector – attracting, recruiting, retaining and incentivising colleagues of the highest quality in all roles. Our People Strategy underpins that ambition and how we are seeking to deliver on it.

A big part of that strategy is to create a supportive and inclusive working environment, and we are committed to diversity and inclusion in all aspects of our business. Our colleagues have the opportunity to contribute to that work by taking part in various projects led by our six Together Network Groups:

• Gender

• Race, Faith and Belief

• Pride

• Social Mobility

• Wellbeing

• Young Persons

We are committed to playing our part in improving inclusion and supporting currently underrepresented groups in the legal sector and in the business community as a whole. We also frequently undertake joint initiatives with our clients, many of whom have similar goals within their own businesses.

Our efforts have been recognised in that wider community. At the 2025 Herald Top Employer Awards we won Top Employer of the Year in the Medium/Large Business category. In 2024 at the Employers Network for Equality and Inclusion awards we won the Supporting Neurodiverse Talent award and were highly commended for our Inclusive Recruitment initiative. We also hold a SILVER TIDE (Talent Inclusion and Diversity Evaluation) award from onvero.

We’re also very proud of the fact that we have both a platinum-level Investors in People accreditation (awarded in 2021 and 2024) and a platinum-level Investors in Young People accreditation (awarded in 2024).

You can read more about Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Shepherd and Wedderburn here.