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Corporate Senior Associate (5+yr PQE), Bristol

Beachcroft LLP

Corporate Senior Associate (5+yr PQE), Bristol

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Beachcroft LLP, Bristol

  • Full time
  • Permanent
  • Onsite working

Posted 2 days ago, 25 Sep | Get your application in today.

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: 684c7b0e29904cd582bb7f3f54c85fab

Full Job Description

  • Managing caseload and/or supporting Partners and colleagues on larger complex cases.
  • Analysing and applying legal principles and facts to derive technically sound, commercial strategies for complex cases.
  • Drafting and reviewing correspondence, reports and litigation documents.
  • Maintaining caseload in good organisational shape and in accordance with client quality and service level agreements.
  • Co-ordinating instructions and workflow for key client accounts, comprising triaging instructions and delegating workload to the most appropriate team member.
  • Supervising junior team members across a case from start to finish.
  • Managing and develop junior members of the team.
  • Developing an understanding of the client's, and our business, and how the two fit together.

    Ideally a 5+yr PQE lawyer with experience across the CBIT space.
  • The ability to run your own caseload and work in an autonomous fashion.
  • Strong academic record.
  • Capable of analysing and applying legal principles to a complex factual scenario, with a view to achieving a commercial resolution for the client.
  • Able to deal confidently and professionally with clients on day to day issues.
  • The ability to think and act quickly and under pressure for clients who find themselves in crisis.
  • Team oriented and collegiate with a willingness to share knowledge with and support other members of the team.

    DAC Beachcroft is looking for a Senior Associate to join our Bristol Corporate . This role is full-time and permanent, with the opportunity to work on a hybrid basis, forming an integral part of an established team of 40 fee earners, across the practice areas in Bristol and London.
    • The Bristol and London teams work closely together to provide an excellent service for our clients. The main focus of the team's work is dealing with corporate contracts, bank loans for both the bank and the borrower. The work is very involved and engaging. Our clients are discerning and expect a gold standard of service. We advise a number of in-house legal teams at global investment banks, asset managers and insurers as well as significant clients in the technology and leisure sectors. The team also services a high profile public sector client base, including major hospitals and commissioning bodies., About DAC Beachcroft We're a leading international legal business with over 3,000 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We're market leaders in insurance, health and real estate but with a full-service offering, including growing Financial Services and Tech capabilities. We represent a wide range of clients - from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. We act for nearly all of the top-20 UK and global insurers, we're market leaders in the provision of strategic, commercial and regulatory advice to providers and commissioners in the health sector, and in real estate we advise all of the UK's top-five housebuilders. We are a fast-growing international business with offices around the globe. In addition to our 11 UK offices, we also have offices in Dublin, Madrid, Paris, Milan, Rome, Singapore, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Miami, plus a broad network of affiliations across the globe. Working with us Our vision is to be leading business advisers, recognised for our insight and our outstanding commitment to clients, and for being the place where talented people want to work. Combine this with our supportive culture and hybrid working model, and you have: a Life that Works. Our flexible approach means that we help our colleagues to be their best at work, while recognising that they have all sorts of different interests and commitments outside work. We pride ourselves on our supportive, approachable culture. We are trusted, appreciated as individuals and embraced as part of a team. At DACB, we don't just accept your differences, we celebrate and advocate for them. From bespoke solutions for our clients, to treating you as an individual. Our strength comes from your diverse ideas and bringing the 'whole you' to work. So if you're good at what you do, come as you are!