Trainee Solicitor

Consultancy.uk; Melbourne CP; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consultancy firm in the UK is seeking a Trainee Solicitor to join their team. The role involves providing legal advice on various topics, including contract and employment law, while working closely with diverse teams. Ideal candidates will have a degree or equivalent and possess excellent communication and problem-solving skills. This opportunity offers a hybrid working model and a chance to engage in meaningful work alongside experienced professionals.

Benefits

Health and lifestyle perks alongside private healthcare

25 days annual leave plus additional purchase options

Generous pension scheme

Annual performance-based bonus

PA share ownership

Qualifications

• Must be able to qualify through the SQE or LPC route.
• Ability to manage deadlines effectively.
• Experience in customer-facing roles is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Provide legal advice on contract law, IP and IT law, and dispute resolution.
• Review and negotiate confidentiality and service contracts.
• Support the legal function and assist with procurement processes.

Skills

Problem-solving ability

Excellent communication skills

Ability to work with diverse clients

Creative thinking

Education

Degree or equivalent qualification

Job description

Company Description

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future. As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity. Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results. We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport. Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.

Job Description

PA Consulting Group is seeking a trainee solicitor to join our Cambridge office. The role of Trainee Solicitor will involve all aspects of legal and commercial training in the provision of commercial legal advice to PA’s corporate and business units. These are predominantly located in the UK, Europe and US although only English law will be the basis for such training. The Trainee Solicitor will work closely with a variety of teams and individuals within PA and will understand the link between the legal department and the business to ensure the highest quality of services and compliance is met. Reporting to Senior Legal Counsel we promise a wide variety of work, in a supportive and collegiate environment.

Responsibilities

Provision of legal advice – risks and mitigations - on the following topics:

• Contract law
• IP and IT law
• Dispute Resolution
• Employment law
• Procurement processes (including public procurement)

Review And Negotiation Of

• Confidentiality agreements
• Service contracts
• Subcontract agreements
• Framework agreements
• Purchase terms and conditions
• IT license agreements

Internal Support For The Legal Function

• Contract summaries and maintaining online databases and registers
• Administering large Framework Agreements
• Ad hoc tasks to support other lawyers and other colleagues
• Assistance with the production and delivery of internal training

Identifying commercial and legal risk and suitable strategies for mitigation:

• Supporting (and eventually leading) all aspects of legal support with the business
• Assisting internal clients through the internal processes
• Minimising legal risk within the business more generally
• Assisting Procurement to negotiate successfully and within PA’s risk boundaries
• Assisting Audit with internal reviews
• Promoting best practice
• Retaining and filing all relevant documentation
• Delivering training to the business

Hybrid working: our approach is to be in the office or on client site a minimum of 2 days per week. However, the actual time you spend and where you spend it will vary by role or assignment.

Qualifications

• Must be able to qualify either through the SQE route or the LPC route (with degree or equivalent)
• Evidence of problem‑solving ability
• Experience of customer facing roles
• Ability to deal with a wide variety of internal and external clients, with differing backgrounds (commercial, legal, academic and technical)
• Experience of working to a deadline and managing several deadlines at one time
• Ability to work with internal clients in other jurisdictions
• Ability to work alone and as part of a close‑knit team
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to think creatively, to provide guidance and pragmatic solutions rather than ‘the letter of the law’
• An interest in the wider business and its ventures
• Ability to work through complex legal documentation, identifying commercial as well as legal risk
• Experience negotiating and clear writing a benefit but not essential
• The ability to pass security screening and the right to work in the UK

Apply today by completing our online application.

Please be aware that some of our UK roles at PA Consulting require a UK security clearance. All PA people are required to undergo background checks and to achieve the Baseline Personnel Security Standard, however, some UK roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting, where applicants must have at least 5 years of continuous residency in the UK. We therefore ask that you only apply if you meet the residency requirements (i.e. you are a British citizen or have been resident in the UK for the past 5 years), as this is the prerequisite for a security clearance. If you're unsure about your eligibility, we encourage you to review the UK Government’s guidance on security vetting before applying.

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Benefits

• Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare
• 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
• Generous company pension scheme
• Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives
• Annual performance-based bonus
• PA share ownership
• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)

EEO Statement

We’re committed to advancing equality. We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief, veteran status, or any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.