Commercial Litigation Associate

Clayton Legal; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading law firm in Leeds is seeking a Commercial Disputes Resolution Associate to join their successful team. This role offers the opportunity to work on domestic and international disputes while enjoying flexible working arrangements. The ideal candidate is ambitious, with substantial experience in commercial litigation and a focus on career development within a supportive environment.

Benefits

Flexible working

Annual Leave

Bonus Scheme

Sabbatical Scheme

Above average pension

Life Assurance

Qualifications

• Strong commercial litigation experience required.
• PQE of approximately 3-5 years.

Responsibilities

• Advise clients on complex and high-value disputes in commercial sectors.
• Lead appropriate cases and build collaborative relationships with the team.
• Engage in both advisory and formal disputes work, including litigation and arbitration.

Skills

Commercial litigation experience

Education

PQE (approximately 3-5 years)

Job description

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My client is a Top law firm based in Leeds, and they have an opportunity for a Commercial Disputes Resolution Associate who wants to join a growing and successful team that specialises in a caseload of commercial disputes.

The firm’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution team is one of the largest outside London, and operates nationally and internationally.

In this role, the successful Commercial Dispute Resolution Associate will have the opportunity to act on both domestic and international disputes for UK and global companies and entrepreneurs, advising them on the resolution of their complex and high-value disputes.
The work will be challenging, stimulating, and rewarding with excellent opportunities for career progression.

This opportunity is open to candidates that are ambitious for partnership in a leading commercial firm based in Leeds.

If you’re not looking for a 5 days a week city centre based role, then don’t worry; they’ve hybrid AND flexible working, so you can make work and life work together for you.

The successful candidate will be:

• Working as part of partner-led teams, and will have the opportunity to lead their own appropriate cases, advising clients across a broad range of commercial business matters.
• Gaining experience and knowledge working for major clients operating in key sectors of banking and alternative lending, real estate development, energy waste and infrastructure, food and drink, complex high-value machinery, private equity, and retail and leisure.
• Working in specialist areas as well as general disputes practice and encouraged to develop their own specialism that excites them, whether that be in reputation management, public procurement, protection of confidential information, fraud and asset tracing, pensions disputes, or a range of other specialist areas.
• Building close collaborative working relationships with their own team and with a network across the wider firm.
• Dealing with advisory work (dispute avoidance, pre-disputes assessments) as well as experiencing the full range of formal disputes work covering litigation, arbitration, expert determination, adjudication, and mediation.

What’s needed:

• Strong commercial litigation experience
• Approximately 3-5 years PQE

Among the benefits the firm offers are:

• Flexible working
• Annual Leave – minimum of days per year, increasing to days with length of service. Also – buy/sell holidays up to 5 days per year
• Bonus Scheme
• Sabbatical Scheme – accrue up to 2 weeks’ sabbatical over a 2-year period, or 4 weeks’ sabbatical over 3 years
• Above average pension – they auto-enrol all eligible colleagues into a workplace pension and contribute a minimum of 5% of annual salary
• Life Assurance