In House Litigation Lawyer - Criminal / Regulatory (Brighton)

To provide litigation advice /support on operational & policy matters across to key stakeholders, Executive Directors, CEO and the Board.

Client Details

Our client is a nationally renowned regulatory body offering high profile legal work.

Description

The responsibilities with this role include, but are not limited to:

• providing high quality, consistent, timely, commercial and pragmatic legal advice on litigation issues and legal risks over a wide range of subjects with a focus on criminal matters, including fraud and other complex criminal cases;
• identify issues concerning litigation which may be of strategic significance, provide advice on those issues as required;
• directing and supporting a varied criminal caseload, including complex, large and/or high-profile/risk criminal investigations and proceedings and regulatory/civil proceedings; and
• represent and support the organisation both internally and externally in a number of forums and proceedings, including magistrates' and crown court hearings (subject to rights of audience).

Profile

The successful candidate will be likely to have:

• Comprehensive experience as a solicitor or barrister with a current practicing certificate in England and Wales*;
• Comprehensive experience of providing consistent, clear, audience-tailored risk-based advice;
• Comprehensive post-qualification experience in criminal or regulatory litigation, and knowledge of public law;
• Extensive experience in devising and implementing a case strategy on complex contentious cases;
• Relevant knowledge in other specialist technical disciplines, particularly fraud, financial/accounting, including forensic accounting and actuarial;
• Extensive experience of specialist investigative techniques, such as inspections, interviewing suspects under PACE, and other evidence and information gathering tools;
• Extensive experience of using evidence analysis and electronic disclosure systems and tools.

*The salary with this role is commensurate with a Public Sector salary for a lawyer between 3 and 10 years PQE but applications at all levels will be considered

Job Offer

The role comes with salary public sector pension arrangements as well as other non-monetary benefits. Please contact the instructed agent (David Taylor, Michael Page Legal) for further information about this role.