LCR Senior Lawyer

Lloyds Banking Group; St Helens; Hybrid; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading banking institution is seeking a Senior Lawyer to join its Litigation & Contentious Regulatory team. The ideal candidate will manage high-profile matters, provide strategic legal advice, and support junior colleagues. Applicants should be legally qualified with experience in dispute resolution, preferably in banking. The role offers a dynamic work environment, opportunities for professional development, generous benefits, and flexibility in location across several UK offices.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution up to 15%

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes including free shares

30 days' holiday

Wellbeing initiatives

Generous parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Significant post-qualification experience.
• Excellent understanding of dispute resolution.
• Previous experience as a litigator in law or in-house.

Responsibilities

• Deliver litigation and contentious regulatory support.
• Manage caseloads and influence key senior stakeholders.
• Identify and develop protocols to improve legal processes.

Skills

Dispute resolution

Leadership potential

Communication

Organizational skills

Education

Legally qualified in England & Wales or Scotland

Current legal practising certificate

Job description

Overview

Are you looking for a varied role in a friendly and dynamic working environment that will provide you with an outstanding opportunity to further your ongoing personal and professional development? We have an exciting opportunity for a senior lawyer to join our Litigation & Contentious Regulatory (LCR) team, part of the wider Legal & Secretariat (L&S) division. This is a rare opportunity for a highly motivated individual to work in a supportive in-house litigation and contentious regulatory team. Under the General Counsel's guidance, our legal team is innovative, moving towards agile practices. Our overall purpose is to partner with empathy, courage and creativity to Help Britain Recover and Prosper. You'll join the LCR team as a Senior Lawyer. LCR lawyers do a mixture of litigation and contentious regulatory work. The role involves leading and supervising colleagues while managing a caseload of important and high-profile litigation and contentious regulatory matters, advising senior stakeholders on industry significant strategic decision making, and contributing to the wider leadership of the LCR team. You'll work closely with business and operations colleagues and provide pro-active, pragmatic, and commercially aware advice. You'll work collaboratively as part of a supportive team. This will involve working with others from within the wider LCR team and L&S division. This role will provide you with an outstanding opportunity to further your ongoing personal and professional development. Please note, the role can be based at our offices in Edinburgh, Bristol, Cardiff, Chester, Halifax or Leeds.

Responsibilities

• Deliver litigation and contentious regulatory support for Projects and cases.
• Responsible for working alongside more junior colleagues and supporting them with all aspects of their caseloads, including strategic case management, briefing, and influencing key senior stakeholders, and managing external panel law firms.
• Support business areas in identifying and resolving legal risks.
• Act as senior legal representative in business/divisional projects, supporting other team members and non-contentious legal colleagues.
• Identify and develop protocols to improve the efficiency of litigation and contentious regulatory management.

Qualifications

• Legally qualified in England & Wales, Scotland, or with an equivalent legal qualification, and with a current legal practising certificate.
• Significant post-qualification experience.
• Excellent understanding of dispute resolution, with previous experience as a litigator in a law firm and/or in-house, ideally in the banking and financial services sector.
• Ability to demonstrate leadership potential and a sound understanding of the legal, technical, and procedural factors affecting contentious matters.
• Other key capabilities include:
• Ability to communicate ideas, risks, and strategies clearly and concisely — both orally and in written form.
• Ability to build trusting and collaborative relationships.
• Strong organisational skills and good attention to detail.

Diversity, Disability Confident and Benefits

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities, and we're committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

Disability Confident: A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. In recruitment situations such as high-volume or peak times, the employer may limit the overall number of interviews offered. We offer reasonable workplace adjustments and, as a Disability Confident Leader, guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability or long-term health condition or neurodivergent condition. We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process. Please let us know what you need.

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies