Senior Associate - Financial Disputes

TLT LLP; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

TLT LLP is recruiting an Associate/Senior Associate to join our national Financial Services Disputes team. Hybrid working is available; the successful candidate can work from any UK base. The role suits a disputes lawyer with 1-5 PQE.

Based in Manchester, you will run a varied contentious caseload for key financial services clients, collaborate with Legal Directors and Partners on complex disputes, supervise junior fee earners, and help develop client relationships across our nationwide offices.

Qualifications

• Qualified disputes and litigation solicitor with 1-5 PQE at a large national or international firm.
• Experience in financial services disputes preferred but not essential.
• Forward thinker with excellent analytical, communication and organisational skills.
• Commercial awareness with an enthusiasm for business development.

Responsibilities

• Run a varied contentious caseload for our key financial services clients.
• Work with the team's Legal Directors and Partners in the progression of some of the most complex disputes in the firm's portfolio.
• Supervise junior members of the team.
• Provide strategic and commercial legal advice across a range of disputes and claims, working closely alongside senior members of the team.
• Participate in business development activities with clients and potential clients, nurturing existing relationships and building on new ones.
• Collaborate with colleagues across our office locations nationwide.

Skills

Disputes & litigation

PQE 1-5

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Organisational skills

Business development

Client understanding

Education

Solicitor qualification (UK)

Job description

We are recruiting an Associate/Senior Associate to join our national Financial Services Disputes team. The role is a hybrid working role, with the successful candidate being able to work from any of our UK bases. This role would best suit a qualified disputes lawyer between 1-5 PQE.

Our Financial Services Disputes team is one of the UK's largest teams in the field of financial services litigation, comprising over 150 people across our offices in Bristol, Manchester, London, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Belfast and Glasgow. The team deals with some of the most high-profile banking disputes and has taken a number of cases to the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court in recent years.

Your Role

As a key addition to the team, day to day you will be provided with the opportunity to:

• Run a varied contentious caseload for our key financial services clients


• Work with the team's Legal Directors and Partners in the progression of some of the most complex disputes in the firm's portfolio


• Supervise junior members of the team


• Provide strategic and commercial legal advice across a range of disputes and claims, working closely alongside senior members of the team


• Participate in business development activities with clients and potential clients, nurturing existing relationships and building on new ones


• Collaborate with colleagues across our office locations nationwide

Your Skills & Experience

We are looking for:

• A qualified disputes and litigation solicitor with 1-5 PQE at a large national or international firm. Experience in financial services disputes is preferred but not essential


• A forward thinker, with excellent analytical, communication and organisational skills


• Self-motivation with the ability to manage workloads and deadlines autonomously


• Commercial awareness with an enthusiasm for business development


• Ability to understand client business needs


• An ambitious and enthusiastic team player, able to support senior fee earners and contribute to our collaborative culture