WBD InHouse Consultants

Womble Bond Dickinson; Gloucester; Hybrid; GBP 92,000 - 166,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Mindful Business Charter culture

Diversity & inclusion initiatives

Job summary

Womble Bond Dickinson is expanding its InHouse consultancy arm in Bristol, offering secondments and project-based assignments from Legal Counsel to Interim General Counsel on a non-exclusive basis. The role supports flexible working and a mix of remote and hybrid opportunities.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years PQE as Solicitors in England & Wales or equivalent, with in-house or client-advisory experience across relevant sectors. We welcome diverse backgrounds and flexible engagement terms.

Qualifications

• At least 3 years post-qualified experience (PQE) as a Solicitor in England & Wales or another common law jurisdiction.
• Experience either in-house or advising clients across multiple sectors (Energy, Tech, Financial Services, Insurance, Public Sector, etc.).
• Proven ability to deliver high-quality work across listed practice areas (Commercial & Corporate, Real Estate, Planning, IP, Technology, etc.).

Responsibilities

• Advise on a range of secondments for clients as part of the WBD Advance InHouse panel.
• Engage in consultancy or contractor engagements on a non-exclusive basis.
• Support flexible working, hybrid/remote arrangements and client secondments.

Skills

PQE 3+ years

In-house experience

sector breadth

Education

Qualified solicitor in England & Wales

Job description

WBD InHouse Consultants

2026-10-17T00:00:00

Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire

GB

BS37 7NE

Any

Womble Bond Dickinson

2026-11-17T10:00:31.333

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Shape Your In-House Career. On Your Terms

One of the ways in which we are responding to the evolving nature of the legal sector is through WBD Advance InHouse; our flexible legal resource which operates a panel of talented, experienced in-house lawyers who are made available to clients for secondments. Opportunities range from Legal Counsel to Interim General Counsel and project specific consultancy assignments and span a wide variety of sectors, giving our WBD InHouse Lawyers and Consultants opportunities to broaden and diversify their experience.

We appreciate that everyone has diverse career aspirations and that's what sets us apart. There is no "one size fits all" approach at WBD Advance InHouse, we give you the choice of how you would like to be engaged; either as a permanent employee, on a fixed term contract, or on a consultancy basis.

If you're looking to work with us on a consultancy or contractor basis, you'll be on a competitive day rate, without the ties.

You'll be working with us on a non-exclusive agreement with a say in which types of high quality secondments you'd like to take on. We offer a mix of remote and hybrid opportunities, are and are open to part-time or full-time working arrangements to help support your work-life balance.

Who are we looking for?

To be successful in this role, you'll need as a minimum:

• At least 3 years post-qualified-experience (PQE) as a Solicitor in England & Wales, Scotland or another Common law jurisdiction
• Experience either working within or advising clients within the following sectors: Energy & Natural Resources, Technology, Financial Services, Insurance, Public, Government and Third Sector, Manufacturing, Transport, or Retail and Hospitality
• Proven experience in delivering high-quality work with a focus on one of the following areas:
  • Commercial & Corporate
  • Procurement
  • Real Estate
  • Planning
  • Insurance
  • Financial Services Regulatory
  • Transactional Banking
  • Dispute Resolution
  • Technology / Digital
  • Intellectual Property
• At least 6 months of in-house legal experience gained either as a qualified lawyer in an in-house legal team, on secondment to a client from a private practice law firm or from having trained in-house

If you're an in-house lawyer ready for your next chapter, or a private practice lawyer looking to transition into in-house work, we'd love to talk.

Discover how flexible in-house law can really be - with WBD Advance InHouse.

What makes it great to work here?

We continually work hard to create an open culture that sets us apart from other firms. Our culture gives us much more of a human feel, emphasising that we're more than just suits!

As signatories to the Mindful Business Charter, it's important to us that our people are able to maintain healthy and happy lives, both in and out of work. We have a number of resources and initiatives designed to support health and wellbeing and we're very happy to talk flexible working.

Through our DEI initiatives we create an environment in which difference is valued. We have a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Group, led by our Board Sponsor, which works with our colleague networks (we currently have firm supported networks for race, ethnicity, and cultural heritage, LGBTQ+, disabilities, neurodiversity, families, and women's career development and we're in constant dialogue with our people about how we expand our networks to better support everybody). Find out more about DEI at WBD here.

We encourage applicants from all social backgrounds, ethnicities, disabilities, gender identities and sexual orientations. We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all.

If you have a disability or long term condition and need us to make any adjustments to give you the best possible recruitment process.

We will offer an interview to candidates with a disability or long-term condition who meet the minimum criteria for this role. You can opt into this scheme within the application form. Your response to this question is only used for this purpose, is only visible to the recruitment team and is not used for data monitoring.

We are an in-house recruitment team and will always aim to fill our roles directly in the first instance.

What makes it great to work here?

Location: Bristol

Contract Type: Temporary

Work location: Hybrid