Corporate Lawyer – Alternative Career Opportunity

Montresor Legal; Slough; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Montresor Legal seeks an experienced corporate/transactional lawyer who is exploring a move into a senior, practice-facing role. You will work closely with partners to optimise team resourcing, oversee workloads and contribute to development, training and recruitment across the practice.

You should bring at least five years’ practising‑lawyer experience, a corporate background, and the commercial judgement needed to thrive in a high‑performing transactional environment; hybrid London work

Qualifications

• Minimum five years’ experience as a practising lawyer.
• Corporate background preferred; transactional disciplines also considered.
• Commercial judgement and understanding of high‑performing transactional teams.
• Comfortable with data, workloads, and performance review processes.

Responsibilities

• Embed within the practice and work directly with partners, counsel, associates and trainees.
• Assist with allocation of lawyers to matters, balancing client needs and workload.
• Monitor workloads, deal flow and utilisation; identify resourcing needs.
• Contribute to training programmes, development conversations and career planning.
• Involve in recruitment, onboarding and transitions for lawyers and trainees.

Job description

Are you an experienced corporate or transactional lawyer who enjoys the legal environment but is beginning to question whether fee earning is the right long-term career path for you?

We are working with an elite international law firm on a genuinely unusual opportunity for an experienced lawyer to move into a senior, practice-facing role focused on the development, performance and effective running of one of the firm’s leading transactional teams.

This is not a traditional HR position, nor does it require someone who has previously worked in talent management. The firm is specifically interested in hearing from experienced practising lawyers who can bring legal credibility, commercial judgement and a genuine understanding of the pressures and demands of working within a high-performing transactional practice.

You will be embedded within the practice and work directly with partners, counsel, associates and trainees. Over time, you will build a comprehensive understanding of the team, its people, the nature of the work, current and upcoming matters, individual strengths, development needs and career goals.

A major part of the role will involve working closely with partners on the allocation of lawyers to matters. You will help ensure that teams are appropriately resourced while balancing client needs, workload, utilisation and the longer-term development of individual lawyers.

You will monitor workloads and deal flow, review relevant financial and utilisation data and help identify where additional support or changes in resourcing may be required.

The role also plays a significant part in the professional development of lawyers across the practice. You will be closely involved in performance review processes, development conversations, career planning and identifying training needs. You will work with partners and internal development teams to help create training programmes and other initiatives designed to support lawyers at different stages of their careers.

You will also be involved in lateral and trainee recruitment, onboarding new joiners, supporting lawyers returning from or moving into secondments, helping manage transitions and departures, and contributing to wider projects relating to development, change and the continued success of the practice.

This is an exceptionally relationship-driven role. You will become a trusted point of contact for both partners and lawyers within the team and will need the confidence, judgement and interpersonal skills to work effectively with people at every level.

The firm is looking for someone with a minimum of five years’ experience as a practising lawyer. A corporate background would be particularly relevant, although lawyers from other transactional disciplines will also be considered.

You should be commercially minded, highly organised and comfortable working with data and competing priorities. Above all, you should be genuinely interested in people and in understanding how high-performing legal teams operate, develop and succeed.

This opportunity could be particularly well suited to a lawyer who has reached a point in their career where they would like to step away from the traditional fee-earning path while continuing to use the knowledge, credibility and experience they have developed in practice.

You will be joining a highly successful international law firm with an outstanding reputation for complex, high-value and cross-border work. The London office is a significant part of the wider global business and offers a collaborative, high-performing environment with access to some of the most talented lawyers in the market.

The role is permanent and based in London, with hybrid working available.