Presently Eversheds International has 41 offices with 2600 legal and business advisors in 26 countries and offers coordinated legal expertise across Africa, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. New member countries are added on an ongoing basis. The South African office in Sandton, Johannesburg has over 130 professionals and a total staff complement of close to 400.
Eversheds’ Africa Desk is run jointly from the Johannesburg and Paris offices. The association with Eversheds International offers clients of the firm increased resources and expertise with multi-jurisdiction solutions and access to legal expertise on a global level. A client coming into any office can take advantage of the services available from all of them and can be assured of the same high standards.
In addition, the firm enjoyed unprecedented growth during 2007 and 2008 with a number of highly experienced partners joining with specialist expertise in niche markets, such as environmental law, energy, oil and gas, telecommunications and broadcasting, project finance, tax, and exchange control, adding depth to the expertise of the professionals that were already operating in those areas.
The firm identified Mauritius as a growing market with considerable business opportunities and Routledge Modise Eversheds (Mauritius) is in the process of opening in Port Louis to enable the firm to provide legal advice to clients in that jurisdiction.
Well aware that training and education should form part of any law firm’s commitment to its staff and the wider community, the Routledge Modise Law School was opened in September 2008. Its main aim is to provide training for candidate attorneys and to satisfy the statutory requirements of attending a board course approved by the relevant law society for the purposes of admission as an attorney. Bursaries are available to historically disadvantaged candidates as part of the firm’s social responsibility programme.
As an ongoing service to its clients the firm holds seminars and workshops on the latest legal developments on a regular basis in its 105-seater auditorium.
