Associate

The team is led by Lorna Sibbald supported by Colin Hutton and provides dispute resolution support and advice to the Firm's major clients across a wide section of the Firm's other teams (including Corporate, Corporate Recovery, Banking, Technology and Utilities).

In particular the team works in the following areas:-
• Commercial contracts
• Intellectual property
• Judicial review
• Regulatory issues
• Banking
• Contentious corporate recovery
• Financial Services including investigative work

Role Outline:

The particular position that the team is seeking to fill involves taking a pivotal working in all of the areas of the team's work and servicing a variety of different clients, many of whom are major clients of the firm. The team’s focus is larger, complex actions and disputes.

In addition to having experience of representing commercial clients on litigation matters the ideal applicant will have highly refined dispute resolution skills. Having experience of advocacy, how to develop business and a desire to get involved in training/public speaking and developing good internal and external relationships will also be needed.

Skills Required:

The following gives a flavour of the sort of work the candidate can expect to get involved in and relevant experience in these areas would be helpful:
• Acting in substantial Court of Session disputes including Commercial Court and Intellectual Property Causes
• Advising on judicial review matters involving licensing decisions & disciplinary hearings for example
• Advising on contentious regulatory matters
• Defending large and complex compensation claims
• Interdicts
• Assisting other departments with opinion work

In addition, as a senior member of the team the job holder will have a key role in guiding, supporting and supervising junior team members.

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For further information about this vacancy please apply to:

Linda Adams, HR Manager,
191 West George Street,
Glasgow,
G2 2LD.

Tel: 0141 304 6240.

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