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Where law unlocks potential
Transforming the way legal services are delivered.
From mergers and acquisitions to private equity and public offerings, our corporate lawyers help clients through every stage of the deal. Together with our extensive business services teams, we’re transforming the way legal services are delivered and making an extraordinary impact beyond the borders of law.
Charles Severs, Global Co-CEO
At DLA Piper, we believe in global careers without limits. Together, we unlock our potential and redefine what we can achieve.
Our vision
We believe great businesses can make a better world.
Looking forward.
Forward-thinking, innovative organisations can find the answers to today’s most difficult questions. That’s why, every day, we help them succeed.
Better together.
Our bold and dynamic culture puts every single colleague in the best possible position to deliver on that promise. We don’t put limits on our thinking, our ambition or our people. That’s how we make business better. Together.
Our Values
Our values are all about
unlocking potential.
They’re here to help us reach new heights, achieve more together, and make DLA Piper an even better place to work.
Be Supportive
We are compassionate and inclusive, valuing diversity and acting thoughtfully.
Be Collaborative
We are proactive, passionate team players, investing in our relationships.
Be Bold
We are fearless and inquisitive, challenging ourselves to think big and find creative new solutions.
Be Exceptional
We are strategic and driven, exceeding standards and expectations.
A responsible business
The world needs responsible business.
We’re proud of the impact we make beyond the borders of law. That starts with being a responsible business. Here, you’ll use your skills to address some of the world’s most pressing challenges and give something back.
Pro Bono Work
Our pro bono work focuses on the rule of law, children’s rights and access to justice for displaced people around the world. We’re proud to be one of the largest providers of pro bono legal services, donating over 200,000 hours globally in 2018.
New Perimeter
New Perimeter is our non-profit affiliate providing long-term pro bono legal assistance in under-served regions around the world. New Perimeter supports access to justice, social and economic development, sound legal institutions and women’s advancement.
Head Start
Head Start supports talented students from groups which face cultural, social or economic barriers to entering the legal sector. We’re addressing social mobility and improving diversity by ensuring equality of opportunity for students from all backgrounds.
Global Scholarships
Our two-year Global Scholarships programme supports outstanding law students from less developed countries and helps them define and achieve their professional goals. The programme has involved students from countries that include Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Senegal, Solomon Islands, Uganda and Zambia.
Responsible Business
We’re proud to be one of the first law firms subscribing to the UN Global Compact’s 10 universal principles concerning human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption. We actively promote its universal principles through our strategy and daily operations.
Protecting the most vulnerable
We focus on supporting child protection through our partnership with UNICEF. With our support, UNICEF can continue its vital work to ensure children can go to school instead of work, avoid child marriage and be safe in their communities.
We have donated more than £2 million in cash and £6 million in pro bono advice.
Our global presence
Our clients are often global, so we have to be too.
With over 90 offices in more than 40 countries, we provide seamless local and cross-border advice, whenever and wherever our clients need us.
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Our history
Purpose driven change
We became DLA Piper in 2006. Since then, we’ve consistently pushed the envelope in what a law firm can be and how we can realise potential for business around the world. We’re proud of our past. And when you join us, it will be your foundation for shaping the future.
Innovation in generative AI
DLA Piper's Innovation in Generative AI Strategy was crowned the best in Europe by the Financial Times at its Innovative Lawyer Awards 2024.
Legal Innovation & Technology Awards
DLA Piper is a three-time winner at the Legal Innovation & Technology Awards 2024. Awarded the ‘Future of Legal Services Innovation’ for its disruptive and innovative approach to artificial intelligence (AI), ‘Outstanding Training Innovation’ for Design Thinking, and the Aiscension platform won the ‘Excellence in Litigation Technology’ category.
Recognition for sustainability
DLA Piper wins four awards at The Asset Triple A Sustainable Infrastructure Awards 2023 for our Renewables and Project Finance Practice in Asia.
Legal innovation
DLA Piper recognised by the Legal Innovation Awards 2023, winning the "Innovation in ESG" category with its ESG Due Diligence tool.
Pro bono recognition
DLA Piper won the ‘Pro Bono Initiative of the Year’ at The Lawyer Awards 2022, recognising the firm’s efforts to support and advise Afghan people.
ESG initiative of the year
DLA Piper’s industry-first Corporate Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) was recognised as the industry’s ESG Initiative of the Year at the Legal Business Awards 2022.
Innovation awards
Triple win as DLA Piper is named the most innovative Law Firm at FT Innovation Lawyer Europe Awards 2021. We are also awarded Most Innovative Leader (Simon Levine) and Most Innovative Law Firm Transformation (Law&).
Innovative use of technology
DLA Piper’s Aiscension wins Most Innovative Use of Technology at The Lawyer Awards 2021.
International law firm of the year
DLA Piper named International Law Firm of the Year at the African Legal Awards, hosted by Legal Week and the Corporate Counsel Association of South Africa (CCASA).
Best international law firm for women in business
DLA Piper recognised at Asia Women in Business Law Awards 2020 for Best international firm for women in business law and best international firm Hong Kong SAR practice.
Recognition by Acritas
The Acritas Stars 2019 analysis of outstanding lawyers includes 195 of our lawyers. The Stars programme was developed to provide a source of highly recommended lawyers based purely on client feedback, free from the influence of law firms.
Recognition for our undergraduate programme
DLA Piper UK is awarded Best Short-Term Insight Scheme in recognition of its undergraduate programme at The National Undergraduate Employability Awards.
Recognition for diversity
We receive the Mansfield Certified Plus status recognising our efforts to increase diversity in the firm’s leadership.
Best gender diversity initiative
We’re awarded Best Gender Diversity Initiative by an International Law Firm at the Euromoney Europe Women in Business Law Awards.
200,000 Pro bono hours donated
We donate a total of nearly 200,000 pro bono hours across the world in 2017.
Recognition by Acritas
Acritas ranks DLA Piper as the second most favourable and recognised legal brand in the world.
Top 50 for women's advancement
Working Mother magazine and Flex-Time Lawyers name us as one of the 50 best law firms for women’s business development and career advancement, for the fifth year in a row.
Among most innovative law firms
For the fifth consecutive year, The Financial Times names us among the most innovative law firms in the world.
Corporate Equality Index
For the ninth year in a row, we earn a perfect score from the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Corporate Equality Index and we’re again rated a Best Place to Work for LGBT Equality.
Expanding global footprint
We continue our expansion in Africa, North, Central and South America, and New Zealand.
Best mentoring programme
We’re awarded Best Mentoring Programme by an International Firm, and Best International Firm for Pro Bono Work at the Euromoney Australasian Women in Business Law Awards.
Diversity initiatives
Our Leadership Alliance for Women (LAW) is named Best Gender Diversity Initiative by an International Firm, and Best Firm for Women in Business Law in Norway, Poland and Ukraine.
Partnership with UNICEF
We announce a groundbreaking three-year partnership with UNICEF, aimed at strengthening the protection of children around the world. We continue to support UNICEF, and we’ve contributed more than £1 million through fundraising and corporate donations, and provided pro bono support estimated at over £4 million.
Removing barriers to law
We launch Break Into Law, a global initiative to remove barriers to careers within the legal profession for underrepresented young people.
Recognition for Senator George J. Mitchell
The American Lawyer names Senator George J. Mitchell (our Chairman Emeritus) a 2012 Lifetime Achiever, recognising his distinguished career in public service and private practice.
Supporting legal education in Africa
Supporting the 2012 Clinton Global Initiative Commitment to Action, we pledge to support legal education in East Africa and the DC Promise Neighbourhood initiative.
Leading Real Estate practice
Chambers & Partners honours us with its Award of Excellence for having the leading Real Estate practice in the US. We’re the only firm to have received this award twice.
Merger with DLA Phillips Fox
We integrate with DLA Phillips Fox, a former Group Firm, and become the world’s largest law firm, the largest integrated Asia-Pacific legal practice and the largest global law firm presence in Australia.
Growing African and South American footprint
We expand our partnerships and grow our footprint in Africa and South America.
Outstanding Achievement Award
We win the Outstanding Achievement Award at the Legal Business Awards, recognising our "unrivalled impact on the business of law over the last two decades."
Pro bono partnership with Pfizer
We partner with Pfizer on a pro bono initiative to provide low-income individuals with access to free legal assistance.
Global expansion
We expand our global presence with more offices opening in Europe, the Middle East and US.
Global technology pioneers
Our Global Technology Leader Summit gives insights to the economic and cultural factors driving our industry. Shortly after, we launch our Global Technology Sector.
Leadership Alliance for Women
Our Leadership Alliance for Women (LAW) launches in the US to focus on developing and promoting our women lawyers, and maximising their opportunities for business generation and leadership.
Global Sustainability Initiative
We become one of the first in the legal sector to launch a Global Sustainability Initiative, affirming our commitment to managing our environmental impact.
Inception and growth
DLA Piper becomes our official name. We continue our growth in Africa, the Middle East and Scandinavia.
Early Careers
The first step in your career is one of the most important. When you join DLA Piper as a student or graduate, we don’t put limits on what you can achieve here and that starts from day one.
Talent Community
Staying in touch with like-minded people is important to us. Our Talent Community provides unique access to our firm so you can discover why we are a different kind of law firm.
Sectors
We’re a different kind of law firm for a different world. We help clients across every major sector with their most complex challenges. See the range of sectors we work in.