Legal Operations Analyst

Stephenson Harwood LLP; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a prestigious law firm in London, focused on growth and supporting your career development. Expect a flexible environment with opportunities for talented lawyers to engage in high-quality work while contributing to the firm's ambitious goals.

Benefits

Comprehensive training and development

High potential programmes

Opportunities for international secondments

Wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Strong portfolio of clients expected for senior lawyers.
• Experience in lateral hiring can be beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality legal services.
• Develop and maintain client relationships.
• Participate in complex international deals.

Skills

Client relationship management

Negotiation

Legal research

Communication

Education

Law degree

Qualified solicitor or barrister

Job description

Join a firm that's ambitious, growing and delivering on groundbreaking work. Expect a flexible, diverse working environment where your long-term career growth is assured.

We build our business by enabling high performance and progression. Whatever your role, we give you the support, management and development you need to achieve your full potential.

Business services, paralegal and EA
opportunities

We believe in growing our business in a number of ways. As well as focussing on developing our own people and ensuring a clear career path we also recognise the additional skills and relationships which lateral hire partners can bring to the firm.

Whether to further deepen existing areas of strength or to bring a new specialism to the firm we regularly meet informally with lateral candidates. We have considerable experience in lateral hiring and feel that we know what makes for a successful hire – whether that’s our cards on the table approach or our focus on integration post hire. Either way our retention rates for our lateral joiners are exceptional.

Our wellbeing strategy for partners and employees focuses on preventative measures to maintain our overall health, and tools and support for when we experience physical or mental difficulties. The strategy focuses on four pillars: physical, emotional, financial and social aspects.

If you are a senior lawyer with a strong portfolio of clients and looking to join a firm that is experiencing consistently strong growth, please contact us in confidence to talk through a move to Stephenson Harwood.

Call Katherine Wenbourne,Chief People and Talent Officer, on 020 7809 2419 or click here to send through your CV.

Qualified lawyersBusiness services

Wherever you are in the world, and whatever stage in your career you are at, you get comprehensive training and development at Stephenson Harwood.

The outcomes of this are:

• Everyone progresses on merit and can take advantage of high quality development during each career stage and role
• Whatever skills you want to develop, continuous learning and development are open to you
• You benefit from the transfer of legal and related skills, expertise and knowhow across the firm and firms we associate with
• You can achieve high performance and excellence in technical and business skills
• As a firm, we deliver the highest levels of quality and service for our clients

Commercial, practical, technical and non-technical skills are all part of your development. There are other learning opportunities too, such as secondments, a high potential programme and other specialist schemes, all of which are closely linked to your day job.

Partners and other internal and external experts are involved at every stage, providing a bespoke and high quality offer that enables you to develop in the direction you want to go.

As part of our new strategy, we have identified five areas of focus in which to grow our business, these are: decarbonisation, life sciences, private capital & funds, technology and transportation & trade. We welcome hearing from talented lawyers who can bring the skills and depth of commercial expertise that our clients expect and will help us to achieve our ambitious plans.

We do everything we can to make sure the future talent joining our firm is world class.

Our people are listened to, encouraged, coached and stretched. They quickly become central to complex international deals and we make sure they have the tools they need to make an impact.

We have a range of opportunities for graduates and school-age students including training contracts, apprenticeships, placement schemes, work experience and open days. We offer opportunities across our international offices.

We value our business services staff, as an important and integral part of our business. If you join the team, we will invest in your management and development.

Whether you are on the secretarial or business services support team, you will benefit from a variety of training sessions and other support so that you can continue to develop and consolidate your particular area of expertise.

As well as inductions, technical training and annual appraisals, you will be included in skills programmes, which cover business, management and advisory skills.

Our headquarters are in London, with eight offices across Asia, Europe and the Middle East. With over 25% of our people based outside the UK, there are plenty of opportunities overseas. Associates from all our offices can benefit from international secondments or attendance on one of our international development programmes.

Alumni

To celebrate our great talent, both past and present, we have established our alumni programme. Through this programme we aim to build on those relationships formed while at Stephenson Harwood, whatever you are doing, wherever you are now or however long ago you worked in our offices. Our value of teamwork applies to our relationship with clients, as well as to all former employees who have helped Stephenson Harwood to become what it is today.

By registering with our alumni programme you can reconnect with friends, former colleagues, and fellow alumni, as well as stay in touch with firm news and events.

"As a firm with ambitious growth plans, we want to continue to attract the best possible people. To achieve this it is critical that our employer brand reflects what we offer.

We now have a brand which much better reflects us as an employer and the opportunities we offer the people who choose to join us.

Our starting point was hearing from some of our existing employees. It was particularly pleasing that they confirmed that what we offer is something unusual in the market - a balance between challenging opportunities, quality work, clients and colleagues and an entrepreneurial environment all within a firm which recognises that people have to be at the heart of our business."

Katherine Wenbourne
Chief people and talent officer







Where ambition thrives, potential is developed and talent is rewarded.

Entrepreneurialism
You have the freedom to be yourself. You are encouraged to apply creative thinking to the challenges facing the firm and its clients.

Quality
You are part of a team of high calibre individuals. You are challenged with high quality, demanding work and get the support you need to succeed.

People
A firm of friendly, talented, straightforward people who value one another. An environment where everyone enjoys working together.

Opportunity
An ambitious and growing firm, that gives you real opportunities to grow with it. You work hard and get the support to achieve your full potential.

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If you've ever wondered what makes a good law firm partner, or what makes Stephenson Harwood special for our people, you'll find out below.

You'll also hear about how the firm has supported these new partners along the road to partnership, the best advice they've been given, and what they would say to their 21-year-old self.

Shape your future with us

Talent comes from all backgrounds. We believe in the power of relatable role models, and that everyone should have the opportunity to succeed, regardless of social background, class, or socio-economic circumstances. Watch this video to hear from trainee Adam Akbar, solicitor apprentice Amy Allen, and global head of talent acquisition and mobility Sarah Manning, who share their personal experiences of how they came to work at Stephenson Harwood.

Belonging, inclusion and diversity

We know that our people are our biggest asset. We want Stephenson Harwood to be a place where you can do your best work in a team that values who you are and the unique perspectives and contributions that you bring. That is how we unlock our entrepreneurial spirit.

Applying with a disability

We want to ensure that you can shine during our selection process. If you have a disability, a medical condition or individual need that might affect your performance at any stage in our recruitment process, please let us know. We are happy to discuss adjustments so that you can perform at your best.

Some examples we can accommodate include, but are not limited to, providing the application form in a different format, additional time in time-based exercises, virtual or in-person interviews, or a telephone conversation to discuss the recruitment process.

Click here to find out more about belonging, inclusion and diversity at the firm.

We are proud to partner with the following organisations to ensure our recruitment processes are inclusive to all candidates.

Contacts

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