Senior/Managing Associate – Commercial Dispute Resolution / Pensions Litigation

TLT LLP; West of England, Birmingham, Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Private medical insurance

Job summary

TLT is seeking a Senior or Managing Associate to join its Commercial Dispute Resolution team in Bristol, Birmingham, or Manchester on a permanent hybrid basis. The role focuses on pensions litigation within a strong national practice, offering growth, cross-office collaboration, and exposure to major client instructions.

You will manage a varied caseload, supervise junior lawyers, and contribute to business development initiatives while maintaining high standards of client service and technical

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years PQE in Commercial Dispute Resolution.
• Significant pensions disputes experience including professional negligence claims, scheme rectification and complex member complaints.
• Strong analytical, communication and organisational skills; able to manage workloads and deadlines.
• Commercially aware with enthusiasm for business development and keeping up to date with developments.
• Client-focused with ability to nurture long-standing relationships with clients and internally.
• Experience supervising and developing junior team members is desirable.
• Ambition to contribute to the firm’s growth locally and nationally.

Responsibilities

• Support the team and take responsibility for a range of pensions litigation work.
• Advise a broad range of clients on commercial dispute resolution matters.
• Collaborate with Partners and nationwide teams, including the national Pensions team.
• Lead business development activities, including pitches and tenders, training, and client relationship building in pensions sector.
• Supervise and mentor junior team members to develop their skills and careers.

Skills

Pensions litigation

Commercial Dispute Resolution

Client relationships

Mentoring juniors

Business development

Job description

We have an excellent opportunity for an experienced Senior or Managing Associate to join our market-leading Commercial Dispute Resolution team in Bristol, Birmingham or Manchester. This is a permanent, full-time role, offered on a hybrid-working basis.

Our Commercial Dispute Resolution team is highly ranked in the Legal Directories, and this opportunity would see you working closely with a Legal 500 Leading Partner.

Pensions litigation has become a key area of development for our Commercial Dispute Resolution team which has seen an increasing number of major instructions from key clients in the sector.

The team is seeking to maintain this growth by the appointment of a Senior or Managing Associate with specialist pensions litigation expertise. This appointment will strengthen the existing Commercial Dispute Resolution team, which operates as a national service line.

If you are looking for a role offering professional growth, exposure to an excellent client base, and strong progression prospects, this is the role for you. It would ideally suit a litigator who is keen to build on their experience of contentious pensions work while maintaining a varied litigation caseload.

In return we will invest in you. We want you to be successful. You will manage your own portfolio of disputes (with Partner oversight as required) ensuring your experience is varied and broad.

Your Role

As a key addition to the existing team, day to day you will be involved with:

• Supporting the team and taking responsibility for a range of pensions litigation work, supplementing the firm’s expertise in this area
• Advising a broad range of clients on a variety of commercial dispute resolution matters
• Collaborating closely with the Partners and wider team nationwide, as well as our national Pensions team
• Taking an active role in business development initiatives, including preparing pitches and tenders, providing training and building client relationships, with a focus on the pensions sector
• Taking an active role with supervision, development and mentoring of junior team members

Your Skills & Experience

Our employees are talented people, distinguished by technical excellence, with a willingness to embrace team working and a passion for client service. You will be able to demonstrate a similar supportive, flexible and driven ethos and will have accumulated the following experience and skills:

• A proven Commercial Dispute Resolution background with outstanding technical ability and a genuine interest in commercial dispute resolution, with a minimum of 7 years PQE
• Significant experience of pensions disputes work, including professional negligence claims, scheme rectification and complex member complaints
• A forward thinker, with excellent analytical, communication and organisational skills, you will be self-motivated with the ability to manage workloads and deadlines
• Commercially awarewith enthusiasm for business development and an appetite for keeping up to date with the latest developments
• Client focussed approach with the ability to nurture long standing relationships, both with external clients and internally
• Able to develop a deep understanding of your client’s business needs, and act in the best interest of the firm and the client
• Able to contribute to our collaborative culture, with an ambition to assist in the development of junior team members (proven experience of supervising and/or managing junior team members is desirable)
• The drive and ambition to succeed as a key senior component of the team at TLT, with the commitment to developing the firm’s offering locally and nationally

Your Team

We work with a wide range of businesses from plcs, public bodies and international companies to owner-managed businesses and non-profit organisations. We offer genuine industry knowledge to clients spanning a variety of sectors. We are regularly instructed to act in significant, high value corporate and commercial disputes including in specialist areas such as shareholder disputes and pensions litigation, and continue to expand the strength and depth of our team accordingly.

About TLT

Fast paced, fast growing and forward thinking, TLT is the law firm that helps clients stay one step ahead, and we do the same for our people.

We work with high profile clients in innovative sectors. With local, national and international reach, we have over 1,800 people in offices across the UK and a network of partner firms across Europe, India and the US. Over the last few years TLT’s successful growth, delivery of high-quality work and support for colleagues has been consistently recognised by The Times and at the Legal Business, The Lawyer and British Legal Awards.

Our purpose is to protect, prepare and progress our clients for what comes next and it’s essential that we do the same for our people, our planet and our communities too. In our open and collaborative culture, we encourage everyone to be their whole self, to have a voice and to contribute.

Our Benefits

• We’ll receive a competitive salary with an annual pay review.
• You will also have access to an extensive range of benefits via our flexible benefits scheme including 25 days holiday (which will increase to 30 days based upon length of service) and private medical insurance.

At TLT we have a progressive fully flexible working approach. We empower our people to work in a place and at a time that meets their needs, those of their clients and of the wider team and firm. Part of this agile approach is a focus on hybrid working and supporting the work/life balance of our people.

TLT is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive working environment and encourages applications from all suitably qualified people, regardless of disability, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected by the laws in the locations in which we operate.

We welcome applications from people with disabilities and are committed to providing reasonable adjustments, where necessary, to make interviews and jobs more accessible. Should you have any difficulty during the recruitment process, require any reasonable adjustments or an application to Access to work please contact the recruitment team on [e-mail]