Interim Legal Counsel

Full or Part time role. Remote working is fine with occasional travel to their North West offices. 

Household name Plc seeks to recruit a commercial or construction lawyer to work in the commercial team of a large legal department.

Our client seeks an experienced lawyer to support their legal team across a variety of project and business legal advice.

Responsibilities

The legal team currently support the business across a broad range of commercial and construction legal advice, some very complex. Work could therefore be scoped to your legal skills and could include any of the following:

• Construction and engineering law and construction projects
• Construction and Commercial disputes
• General commercial contracting: T&Cs, consultancy, procurement, supply
• IT outsourcing and data protection issues

We are looking for:

• An experienced qualified solicitor or barrister (UK) with at least 4 years PQE*
• Well regarded law firm or inhouse experience, preferably within a similar sector (infrastructure/construction/utilities/engineering environment)
• Significant commercial law experience in some of the above specialist areas
• Self sufficient and able to hit the ground running
• Strong interpersonal, commercial and team skills
• Confident and able to work with senior management
• Experience supporting, training and developing junior lawyers

Home working, part-time and flexible working all considered.

Our client will consider PAYE on a FTC or through an umbrella company.

Apply:

If you are interested in this Interim Legal Counsel position, please apply now or forward an up-to-date copy of your CV to Jacqui Douglas. If the role isn’t right for you but you are interested in hearing about similar positions or some advice regarding the market, then please do get in touch.

*All candidates will be considered on merit

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