Commercial Litigation Lawyer

JMC Legal Recruitment; Paisley; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

JMC Legal Recruitment seeks an experienced Commercial Litigation Lawyer (3+ PQE) for a Glasgow-based boutique with L500 recognition. You will handle a strong pipeline of high-value disputes, with real autonomy, ownership of matters, and a clear path to partnership.

This role offers working alongside top-tier colleagues, development of client relationships, and the chance to build your own team over time in a collaborative, entrepreneurial environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ PQE in commercial litigation.
• Ability to run own caseload independently.
• Court experience is essential.
• Proactive, solutions-led mindset.
• Strong client-facing skills.
• Interest in business development and networking.
• Ambition to grow and lead.

Skills

Commercial litigation

Independent caseload

Court experience

Client-facing

Business development

Networking

Leadership

Job description

Commercial Litigation Lawyer (3+ PQE)

Location: Glasgow

Firm: Boutique, L500 Recognised Firm

Salary: Highly Lucrative + Clear Path to Partnership

The Role & The Opportunity

Litigation can often feel like a treadmill of high volume, long hours, limited control. This role is not that. This is a unicorn opportunity to step into a litigation role where you're not just handling cases, you're helping to shape and build a practice.

You'll join a highly regarded boutique firm in Glasgow, working directly alongside L500 recognised colleagues on complex, high-value disputes. But more than that, you'll be given something rarely offered at this level: real autonomy, real responsibility and a genuine platform to build something of your own.

From day one, you'll take ownership of a strong pipeline of commercial litigation work, spanning property disputes, insolvency, company law, construction matters and high-value contractual claims, and being involved in Court of Session work. This is not volume-driven work; it's a firm that focuses on quality, strategy and delivering meaningful outcomes for clients.

Alongside managing your own caseload, you'll play a key role in the growth of the litigation function. With an established client base already in place, you'll have the space and autonomy to develop relationships, generate work and, over time, build out your own team.

This is a firm where everyone rolls their sleeves up. There's no hierarchy for the sake of it, just a commercially minded, collaborative team focused on doing excellent work and growing something ambitious.

If you're someone who thrives on ownership, moves quickly, thinks commercially and wants to step away from rigid structures into something more entrepreneurial and see where your time effort goes, this is where you can make that happen.

Your Experience

• Experienced Commercial Litigation Lawyer (3+ PQE)
• Strong background in commercial litigation (broad experience preferred)
• Confident running your own caseload independently
• Court experience is essential
• Commercially aware with a proactive, solutions-led mindset
• Comfortable in a client-facing role
• Interest and experience in business development and networking
• Ambition to grow, lead and build something longer-term

Why This Role?

• Work directly with L500 recognised colleagues in a specialist boutique
• Step into a role with immediate autonomy and ownership
• Clear and realistic fast-track to Partnership
• Opportunity to build and shape your own team and practice
• High-quality, complex work - not volume-driven
• Strong existing client base with real scope to grow further
• Entrepreneurial environment with less hierarchy, more impact
• Flexibility around how you work
• A rare opportunity that almost never comes to market