We are looking for a NQ – 3 year PQE Solicitor to join our Dispute Resolution team based in Nottingham and Leicester.
You will work within your team to provide a quality service to clients in dispute resolution matters for mainly commercial, corporate clients, including public and private companies, retailers and other household names as well as partnerships and individuals.
Your key duties will be:
- providing assistance to a team of experienced lawyers on a broad range of dispute resolution work
- liaising with clients and colleagues in a professional manner
- managing your own caseloads under supervision
- attending and running client meetings
- handling queries and enquiries efficiently
- maintaining good file management
- working to strict deadlines
- actively supporting business development initiatives
Skills and experience you will have:
- previous experience of dispute resolution work
- a good grounding and interest in litigation and its processes
- strong academic background
- strong IT skills
Key competencies you will need:
- to enjoy the academic challenge of resolving technical disputes
- to have an eye for detail
- the ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
- a high degree of initiative and the ability to cope in a demanding environment
- excellent organisational and prioritising skills
- the ability to work in a busy team
- excellent communication skills
About you – you will be:
- highly enthusiastic, willing to go the extra mile and be happy to go beyond the job description
- respectful towards others and have a positive, willing and ‘can do’ attitude
- keen to learn, interested in driving your own career progression and be proactive in taking ownership of this
Meet the team:
Our Dispute Resolution team has a long-standing experience of working with some of the most successful and influential businesses in the UK and internationally. Our specialist team combines expertise with a sound understanding of the commercial landscape to provide exceptional solutions for every aspect of our clients’ requirements.
Our team deals with all types of commercial disputes, including shareholder disputes and partnership disputes, as well as professional negligence claims and defamation claims. The team also specialises in injunctive work and disputes in the energy sector. We pride ourselves on our technical expertise and resources to deliver the best possible solutions for our clients, ranging from large household names and multi-billion pound turnover companies to small owner managed businesses.
How we work:
We embrace agile working and offer a blended approach to where and how we work.
We appreciate that people have different needs and preferences and we’re keen to be flexible; after all, we value what you do, not where you do it.
We have hubs in Birmingham, Leicester, London, Milton Keynes, Nottingham, Solihull, Stratford-upon-Avon and Sheffield. This role will involve travel into our Leicester or Nottingham offices.
About us:
It’s the people at Shakespeare Martineau that make us so special. By understanding what our people want, giving them the support they need, recognising everyone’s contribution and realising the unique power of teams, together we win. As a firm we are focused on proactively building and developing diverse teams, bringing different backgrounds, personalities and perspectives together. We play to our strengths, pushing ourselves to be consistently better than yesterday and deliver amazing solutions for our clients. We empower our teams with a high degree of individual responsibility; we self-manage and encourage everyone to be responsible for their own learning, knowing it makes us even better at what we do!
We believe in trusting our people to make the right decisions for themselves, from when and where you work, to how you dress; we focus on outputs.
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