Legal Counsel - Assistant Director - Litigation - Permanent - London

TN United Kingdom; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Ein führendes Unternehmen im Bereich der professionellen Dienstleistungen sucht einen erfahrenen Legal Counsel – Litigation, um ein dynamisches und engagiertes Team zu verstärken. In dieser Rolle sind Sie verantwortlich für die rechtliche Beratung zu regulatorischen Angelegenheiten und die Verwaltung von Rechtsstreitigkeiten. Sie werden die Möglichkeit haben, an innovativen Projekten zu arbeiten und Ihre Fähigkeiten in einem unterstützenden und flexiblen Arbeitsumfeld weiterzuentwickeln. Das Unternehmen bietet eine wettbewerbsfähige Vergütung und ein umfassendes Leistungspaket, das auf die individuellen Bedürfnisse der Mitarbeiter zugeschnitten ist. Wenn Sie eine Leidenschaft für rechtliche Herausforderungen haben und in einem kollegialen Umfeld arbeiten möchten, ist dies die perfekte Gelegenheit für Sie.

Benefits

Flexibles Arbeiten

Karriereentwicklung

Coaching und Feedback

Umfassendes Gesundheits- und Wellnessprogramm

Rabatte und Angebote

Qualifications

• Mindestens 5 Jahre Berufserfahrung als Rechtsanwalt.
• Erfahrung in einer angesehenen Kanzlei oder in-house.

Responsibilities

• Beratung zu regulatorischen und rechtlichen Fragen.
• Leitung interner Ermittlungen und Unterstützung bei großen Streitfällen.

Skills

Verhandlungsgeschick

Kommunikationsfähigkeiten

Kommerzielle Awareness

Teamarbeit

Fähigkeit zur Konfliktbewältigung

Education

Rechtsanwaltszulassung

Job description

The opportunity

We have a vacancy for a Legal Counsel – Litigation lawyer within our high-performing and ambitious in-house legal team. We respond to business transformation and innovation, enjoying a varied and challenging workload, and support the new EY All in Strategy by showing curiosity, intelligence, and energy to deliver prompt, pragmatic, adaptable, and commercial legal advice to all levels within our business.

Your key responsibilities

The work within the UK Legal team is highly varied and covers all legal issues arising from the running of a professional services business. Much of the legal work is at the cutting edge of business practice as the firm constantly finds innovative ways to help our clients’ businesses.

This in-house role includes:

• Regulatory: Contentious and non-contentious, such as providing legal input on compliance and regulatory matters (including the UK’s FRC, FCA, and ICAEW) and responding to regulatory inquiries;
• Litigation: advising and handling claims including amicable settlement of disputes, actively managing the handling of large claims by external lawyers;
• Undertaking internal investigations;
• General: providing legal advice to the firm’s service lines and its other internal support functions such as real estate and facilities, procurement, finance, HR, IT, knowledge, and marketing, and the opportunity to be the legal lead on firm-wide projects.

Skills and attributes for success

• Strong team player with excellent negotiation and communication skills.
• Demonstrable commitment to the attributes of our highest performing teams – focus on results, accepting accountability, commitment, embracing healthy conflict, building trust.
• Keeps calm and copes well with conflicting and ever-changing deadlines.
• Ability to lead, provide a view, take responsibility and ownership of issues, including making difficult decisions and providing substantiated arguments.
• Commercial awareness of the business issues facing us as we evolve, coupled with an active desire to get alongside our business, offering legal insight and support.

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Approximately 5 or more years of post-qualification experience.
• Significant experience gained either in a reputable City law firm (or equivalent) and/or in-house.
• Ability to provide practical legal advice and support with a high degree of professionalism in a fast-paced environment and to establish credibility, respect, and trust at all levels.

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Proven ability to establish a high degree of credibility, respect, and trust at all levels, including with senior members of the firm, some of whom have a considerable understanding of the law.

What we look for

A self-starter, adept at responding promptly and juggling deadlines who actively looks to build relationships based on trust and confidence.

What working at EY offers

We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY, you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings, and a wide range of discounts, offers, and promotions. Plus, we offer:

• Support, coaching, and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around
• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you

EY is committed to being an inclusive employer, and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We strive to achieve the right balance for our people, enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing you to build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities. While our client-facing professionals can be required to travel regularly and sometimes be based at client sites, our flexible working arrangements can help you to achieve a lifestyle balance.

About EY

As a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction, and advisory services, we’re using the finance products, expertise, and systems we’ve developed to build a better working world. That starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities, and creative freedom to make things better. Whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime. And with a commitment to hiring and developing the most passionate people, we’ll make our ambition to be the best employer a reality.