Associate

Lewis Silkin works with leading businesses to protect and enhance their most important assets - their ideas, their people, their brand and their future. We call it: Ideas. People. Possibilities.

With offices in London, Oxford, Cardiff, Belfast, Dublin and Hong Kong, we are recognised by clients and industry alike as being distinct for our unique culture, market-leading practice areas, sector focused approach and for providing solutions to complex, multijurisdictional business challenges, with a pragmatic and human touch. We have two things at our core: people — both ours and our clients’— and a focus on creative, tech and innovative businesses.

Our culture is encapsulated by an ethos of bravery and kindness, guided by our values of Integrity, Clarity, Unity and Excellence (our ‘I-CUE’). We aim to provide a supportive environment for our people, clients and wider community and embrace diversity & inclusion, ensuring people are able to bring their full selves to work.

The Creators, Makers and Innovators team is made up of leading advisers for creative, innovative, tech and brand-focused businesses, offering a deep understanding of the industry sectors in which clients operate combined with real expertise across a wide range of legal services.

The team’s lawyers have decades of experience both within the creative industries and as legal advisers with in depth knowledge and experience of the many sectors that make up the creative world, including advertising and marketing, entertainment and media, fashion, hospitality, technology, retail and sports.

The team

You will form part of the Intellectual Property Team, with a focus on dispute resolution.  

The successful individual will ideally be 2-5 years’ PQE with strong technical legal skills, and good experience of working on contentious intellectual property work, preferably across a range of rights  You should have experience of working in a medium or large private practice law firm.

The successful post holder will be working with market leading Partners. We welcome candidates who are able to display true commerciality both in relation to advising their clients and in seeking out business development opportunities for the practice as a whole.

Academic rigour will be an important component of this position, as will technical excellence but the firm will place the greatest importance on the candidates’ willingness and ability to contribute positively to the growth of the team.

The team is an energetic, informal and sociable group with an impressive client base, predominantly in the marketing, publishing, media, retail and technology sectors. 

The ideal candidate should have excellent drafting, analytical and communication skills and be able to run your own files with minimal supervision where appropriate. They will report to a number of individual partners/senior associates within the team in respect of individual assignments.

We are looking for a team player who will participate fully in all aspects of the life of this strong and growing group.

The successful candidate will also be expected to support the team’s marketing activities and contribute to the production of written material such as client guides, and prepare and deliver talks and seminars on occasion, so should be very keen to engage in Business Development.

Knowledge of retail, leisure, technology, automotive, financial services, marketing and/or media sectors would be advantageous.

IT skills required:

• Competency in MS Office suite.

Educational and professional qualifications required:

• Qualified UK lawyer with a current UK practising certificate.
• Excellent academics.

The successful individual will be a key part of a hard-working, friendly and supportive team; therefore, the ideal candidate will be a strong team player and have experience working in a high performing and collaborative environment.

At Lewis Silkin our ethos is simple. We strive to do the best for our clients, our people and the communities in which we operate. We recognise that an inclusive workplace allows for all kinds of ideas and thoughts, a variety of points of view that can trigger discussions or deliver innovative results, and a wide range of versatile skills and expertise. We are proud of the diversity within Lewis Silkin and of our culture that allows people to be themselves at work, ensuring we provide the best possible service to our clients. We are committed to finding the right person for this role and are open to discussing flexible working patterns and office location.