CRF Best Employers

reach through alliances in over 50 countries worldwide and its RSA annual turnover exceeds R1billion. The core services offered are law, tax, forensics and IP and it boasts a Level 3 BBBEE scorecard rating.

Bassa reveals, “Every time we employ someone new, it is with the belief that they have the potential to become a partner in the firm.”

ENS recruits more than 70 new candidate attorneys each year. And, as professional development is a permanent and regular focus, the firm employs a full-time training and development professor. Training sessions are ongoing and may take the form of lectures given by leading professionals within the firm or visiting experts in a particular field. Not limited to technical aspects of law, they also cover IT, leadership, business generation and other key competencies. Junior staff members also receive daily individual mentorship from senior colleagues who are leading practitioners in their respective fields of expertise.

The firm has an entrenched monthly induction programme whereby all new recruits receive in-depth exposure to the firm’s values, vision and systems. These sessions involve the chief executive, his deputy chief executive and all members of the executive management team.

It also invests in soft skills development which is designed to help employees develop a better understanding of themselves and others around them, and to enhance EQ.