Associate / Senior Associate

Birketts; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

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The firm

Birketts is a full service, UK Top 50 law firm. With a heritage spanning 160 years, we have more than 700 lawyers and legal professionals based in Bristol, Cambridge, Chelmsford, Ipswich, London, Norwich and Sevenoaks. We advise businesses, government and public sector organisations and individuals in the UK and internationally across four principal practice groups: Real Estate, Corporate Services, Dispute Resolution and Private Client.

We are defined by our Next Level Law proposition. We work with our clients as a proactive partner, horizon scanning and thinking ahead to the changes, challenges or opportunities that they may face.

Next Level Law is also applied to our people. Our collegiate culture means everyone is encouraged to achieve their next level in everything they do. RollOnFriday recently ranked us as the 5th best law firm to work at in 2024.

With our ambition to succeed, comes a strong desire to make a positive contribution to the communities we serve, and we are committed to delivering the objectives set out in our ESG strategy. Diversity plays an integral part in all that we do, with female partners comprising 40% of our partnership.

The department

Procurement

• Acting for private providers, corporates, individuals against public bodies
• Advising public bodies on challenges to their procurements.

Judicial Review/Dispute

• Advising in Planning Matters
• Acting for Developers and Local Authorities
• Litigation support to planning team

Commercial

• Acting for clients challenging Government decisions eg HMRC Policies and Procedures
• Advising on Disputes with Rural Payment Agency

Local Authority Disputes/Parish Council Disputes

• Investigations
• Standards and Conduct Complaints
• Handling Persistent and Vexatious Complainants
• FOIA Disputes
• Monitoring Officer Disputes