Litigation & Contentious Regulatory Senior Lawyer

lloyds banking group; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 111,000 - 132,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services group in the UK is looking for a Senior Lawyer in their Litigation & Contentious Regulatory team. This role involves managing important litigation cases, advising stakeholders, and supervising junior lawyers. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in dispute resolution within the banking sector and possess excellent organizational and communication skills. This position offers a hybrid working arrangement and a comprehensive benefits package.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution up to 15%

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes including free shares

Discounted shopping

30 days holiday plus bank holidays

Wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Significant post-qualification experience.
• Experience as a litigator in a law firm and/or in-house, ideally in banking.
• Strong understanding of legal, technical, and procedural factors.

Responsibilities

• Deliver litigation and contentious regulatory support.
• Manage important and high-profile litigation cases.
• Advise senior stakeholders on strategic decisions.
• Supervise junior colleagues and manage their caseloads.

Skills

Dispute resolution

Leadership potential

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Education

Legal qualification in England & Wales or Scotland

Current legal practicing certificate

Job description

End Date

Friday 03 October 2025

Salary Range

£111,809 - £131,540

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

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.

Job Description

JOB TITLE: Litigation & Contentious Regulatory Senior Lawyer

SALARY: £111,809 - £131,540

LOCATIONS: Edinburgh, Bristol, Cardiff, Chester, Halifax and Leeds

HOURS: Full-time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.

About this Opportunity

This is an exciting opportunity to join us. We’re looking for a conscientious and proactive 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.

Key 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.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.

What you need

We need someone legally qualified in England & Wales, Scotland, or with an equivalent legal qualification, and with a current legal practicing certificate. We are looking for someone with significant post-qualification experience. We want someone with an 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. You’ll need to be able 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.

About working for us

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.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• 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

If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.