Working Hours at King & Wood Mallesons

When you have work to do and a deadline to meet, the important thing is you meet that deadline. How you meet it is up to you. They are very flexible about allowing you to maximise your efficiency - if you are more efficient in the evenings, you do not have to get to work early or on time, or can go to the gym at lunch or in the afternoon if that will allow you to work better before or after.

I have only been at the firm for a few weeks and my hours have been extremely reasonable. It is my understanding that the firm is very accommodating when it comes to hours, and the fact that employees can log on remotely when required is great.

Reasonably flexible, and increasingly so.

My team gives us a lot of flexibility in how we would like to approach our work. We can complete it at home and manage our own workload as long as we can complete it on time. My work hours for the past week has been 9am-6pm but I have left earlier and also later than that range when it suits me.

Will depend on the team, but hours are generally flexible provided that deadlines are met - people are free to come in after 9, leave the office for exercise/errands and work from home (even juniors).

KWM is typical of top tier law firms. If there's work to do, you're expected to be at work.

I put this as an absolute satisfaction rating, rather than a comparative one. Overall I think I have worked less hours than my friends in comparable roles at similar firms.

The firm is reasonably flexible when it comes to hours, which is fantastic for a top tier firm.

Agile working with portable devices is acceptable even at a graduate level.

As a junior I expect to work in the office outside regular hours - I find that part of the challenge. At the same time, my company is agile and will permit you to work at home as needed.

Hours fluctuate week-to-week. Some weeks involve 10pm (or later) finishes every night if a deadline is approaching. Other weeks, I may leave at 6pm every night.

Firm has flexible work arrangements, but nature of the work and tight deadlines requires long hours frequently.

Very satisfied currently.

It varies. Either quiet or very busy. Fairly flexible when it comes to hours.

Overall team members appear very receptive to people working from home, having other commitments etc.

Company is quite flexible, but the hours are long, it's just part of the industry.

Very flexible in terms of if you need to change your hours for a particular reason, or work from home, they're happy to accommodate. When there is a lot of work on you need to do it, but if you're not very busy you can leave at 5.

As flexible as a law firm at the top end of the market can be.

Working hours are 8:30am to 5pm with one hour lunch break (generally anytime between 12-2pm). Actual working hours for me is around 8:45am to 6:30pm, sometimes to around 8:30pm. When things are quiet I can leave around 5:15pm. I had a few super long days (work to around 10-11pm) but it is not often and your team usually are also there with you.

Generally my work hours are pretty good, however that is largely dependent on which team you are in and how busy the team is. When the team you are working in is busy, there is an expectation that you will work late to complete the tasks you have been given (especially if there is a tight deadline).