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Location: Birmingham

Make the best move in your legal career by joining a vibrant pensions legal team in the Midlands, working in a challenging and rewarding area of the law.

The Midlands is a great place to live with attractions such as its own symphony orchestra, premiership football, international cricket, a Royal Ballet and great shopping. Not to mention all the great places to eat out and transport links that mean you can easily commute from the leafy suburbs in under 30 minutes and get to London on a train in an hour and a quarter.

You will have the advantage of being in a large international firm like Pinsents, but the intimacy of being in a balanced local team that works well together. We have embedded a range of diversity & inclusion initiatives to create an environment in which all can flourish. We operate an agile working scheme backed with an 'office anywhere' IT solution, which offers us all flexibility in terms of where we work.

Both nationally and locally our pensions team is highly rated with an enviable client list including PLCs, trustees of large pension schemes and large insurers. You would be joining a team with a great track record undertaking fantastic and varied work. We are first and foremost great people to work with. With a large number of juniors and a supportive and inclusive culture we aim to make working for us professionally stimulating and enjoyable.

As a pension lawyer with experience we have a clear opportunity for a lawyer to dovetail into our team structure. You will work with a great team of juniors and the partners and support our established client service teams. Our career progression offers the right candidate the opportunity to embed in the team and develop their career as suits their future aspirations.

As one of the largest pensions teams in a UK law firm, we have a great breadth of expertise and we have successfully future-proofed our practice by extending our work into areas that are outside of the traditional comfort zone for pension lawyers - examples of this being our high-profile DC work for pension providers and master trusts, and our ground-breaking work in relation to pension fund investment in infrastructure. Future proofing is one thing, we also have a great list of traditional trustee clients many of whom have been with the team for a very long time as well as important new wins from other practices. You are as likely to advise scheme trustees as you are corporates or insurers.

Whether you are looking to move out of London for a better work / life balance, looking for meaningful career prospects, wanting a greater variety of work, feeling supported in a balanced pensions team or simply fed up where you are - we would love to talk to you. At your level of experience, these things need to develop but it all starts with a call.

Pinsent Masons is a global 100 law firm, with over 3,800 employees operating out of 28 locations across Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa and the Middle East. We have a long-standing reputation for delivering high-quality legal advice rooted in a deep understanding of the sectors and geographies in which our clients operate. Our global reach ensures that we are well-placed to advise on complex multi-jurisdictional matters across a full range of legal disciplines.

The firm has significant multinational credentials in the financial services, energy, infrastructure, real estate, and advanced manufacturing and technology sectors. Services provided across these sectors include asset management and investment funds, corporate and M&A, commercial, competition, litigation and arbitration, banking, restructuring, insurance, regulatory, construction, projects, pensions, property, planning and environmental, procurement, outsourcing, employment, share plans and incentives, technology and tax advice.

We value diversity and inclusion. We are committed to creating a better workplace where all our people can succeed and feel like they belong. We want to attract, retain and develop people at all levels and encourage applications from all suitably qualified candidates whatever their ethnicity, religion, age, physical or mental disability/long term condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or other characteristics. We have embedded a range of diversity and inclusion initiatives to create an environment in which our people can flourish.

We stand out for our innovative approach to service delivery. For example, the firm has developed a number of in-house legal technology and project management solutions, operates a hub of freelance lawyers, called Vario, and a global Diversity and Inclusion consultancy, Brook Graham.

Put simply, we offer a range of professional disciplines to our clients, enabled by our people, process and technology.

We’re being recognised equally by commentators and other market movers through a plethora of awards spanning every region and culminating in being named law firm of the year by Legal Business, the FT’s most innovative law firm in Europe (for the third time in eight years), winning their sustainability award in Asia Pacific and being ranked as Thomson Reuters’ leading legal brand in their UK index.

We have been recognised as by Stonewall as a Top Global Employer. Recognising that we are a leading employer in advancing LGBTQ+ inclusion. Pinsent Masons is recognised as a Top Ten Employer for Working Families in 2023 for the seventh consecutive year. We are accredited as a Disability Confident Employer by the Department for Work & Pensions, and we were the first law firm to sign up the global Valuable 500.

Please click here to view full list of our global awards and nominations - www.pinsentmasons.com/accolades

As an inclusive employer, we are willing to consider any flexible working requests.

Should you require further details, please contact our in-house Lateral Recruitment Advisor Johenn Choi who can discuss the role and requirements.

Contact details:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/johenn-choi

Johenn.Choi@pinsentmasons.com

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