Solicitor 3-5pqe IR JR LEG56

Practice Area: Commercial Litigation

Location: Manchester

Overview of Practice Area / Department

Our Commercial Litigation Team's expertise spans banking and finance, cross-border disputes, information technology, contractual and warranty claims, regulatory enquiries, partnership and shareholder disputes, intellectual property, breach of confidence, injunctions, professional negligence, debt recovery and public law judicial reviews.

Core Responsibilities

You will handle a varied workload in accordance with client protocols and with an appropriate level of supervision and act as a point of contact for clients, demonstrating a level of knowledge and skill commensurate with experience.
Within this role you will exercise full compliance with protocols on billing and credit control and demonstrate a high level of financial management in respect of own files. As well as support marketing and business development activity within the team e.g. attending marketing events and client training.
You will also maintain and develop technical knowledge through attendance at training sessions, reading appropriate publications and exceeding Law Society CPD requirements.
Key Skills
As our clients operate in a challenging, commercial context, the you will need the ability to take a solution oriented, commercial approach to providing advice. We pride ourselves on our supportive, team oriented environment, so a positive, flexible attitude and a willingness to go the extra mile are also essential.
You will have excellent relationship and client handling skills and be able to deal confidently and professionally with clients on day to day issues. As well as being able to demonstrate a reasonable level of self-sufficiency, combined with an awareness of the boundaries of own competence/authority.
Your other atributes will include an ability to adopt a commercial perspective rather than an 'academic' approach to legal issues, being team oriented and collegiate with a willingness to share knowledge with and support other members of the team.
You will ideally have 2 years or more of previous experience of commercial litigation work and a willingness to gain exposure to and an interest in commercial issues is essential as is an interest in dealing with issues and problems at a conceptual level.
We are an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from every sector of the community.