Technology Lawyer/Senior Commercial Lawyer

Job Description

Technology Lawyer/Commercial Lawyer (7 years’ PQE)

Birmingham, Belfast, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Manchester or Leeds

Salary range starting at £80,000 a year

Permanent

Role Overview

We have an exciting opportunity for a 7 year PQE commercial lawyer to join our Group Commercial Legal Services team within our General Counsel's Office on a permanent basis. The successful candidate will be responsible for the following:

• Providing commercial contracting support to the firm in relation to its strategic commercial activities and projects.
• Supporting on the delivery of complex Practice Group and/or Advanced Delivery Team-led deals by assisting with the design and delivery, development and negotiation of client facing agreements and commercial schedules.
• Drafting standard agreements and templates in relation to the firm’s development of new client facing products, offerings and solutions
• Where the firm is delivering legal or professional services in new ways, drafting any specific provisions for inclusion in standard letters of engagement and drafting standard or bespoke end user licence agreements, for use where individuals will be accessing and/ or using any third party technologies.
• Supporting on contracts with third party partners, service and solutions providers, third party law firms or legal service providers, ensuring that all contracts comply with the firm’s global risk policies.
• Providing commercial contracting support for non-standard commercial contracts related to the firm’s existing adjacent professional services and solutions, for example:
• client panel terms relating exclusively to the provision of services or solutions by adjacent professional services or solutions teams;
• complex client agreements, including where such agreements are based on client generated terms; and
• complex agreements with third parties, including where such agreements are based on third party generated terms.
• Developing risk management plans in relation to client agreements for complex Practice Group and/ or Advanced Delivery Team-led deals that involve the delivery of bespoke client solutions/services and proposals to increase liability or materially amend the firm’s standard terms.
• Producing guidance and/or regular training and knowledge updates to the practice groups and GCO colleagues on developments which might impact services provided by the firm, and particularly by the adjacent professional services and solutions teams.
• Taking ownership of specific projects where there is a requirement for commercial legal support.
• Identifying and communicating legal developments and ensuring that such developments flow through to the contracting position of the firm when providing products, offerings and solutions, and particularly those provided by the firm’s adjacent professional services and solutions teams.
• In respect of existing, standard adjacent professional services and solutions, monitoring compliance or exceptions to PM risk policies.
• Logging commercial contracts in the relevant engagement terms and bids portals or the relevant supplier terms portal to facilitate reporting.
• Applying a pragmatic, commercial and, in some cases, risk management approach to all contract work, often against tight deadlines, and seeking input from business leads, Practice Group representatives and other teams within the General Counsel’s office, as required.
• In collaboration with the Deputy GC – Risk & Regulatory or their delegate, input into relevant risk policies in relation to adjacent professional services and solutions, ensuring that policies and practice are aligned with those of the firm globally.
• Providing Subject Matter Expert support for ad hoc projects identified by the Deputy GC – Governance & Strategic Growth.
  
  

We are happy to consider flexible working requests.

Candidate Overview

We are looking for candidates who ideally hold the following skills and experience:

• Qualified solicitor with 7 years’ post-qualification experience
• Significant experience of reviewing commercial client agreements
• Experience dealing with technology and AI related contracts, including experience of issues relating to intellectual property rights, data protection, confidentiality and information security.
• Experience of having worked on contracts relating to licensing, software as a service, platform as a service, managed services, agency arrangements, subcontracting and white labelling would be beneficial.
  
  
  

What can we offer you?

• Agile working (the opportunity to work from home, subject to diary commitments)
• Carers’ leave (up to five paid days’ leave towards caring responsibilities)
• 25 days’ annual leave entitlement and the opportunity to purchase or roll over 5 days.
• Contributory pension of up to 5%.
• Private healthcare policy
• Death in service cover (4 x base salary).
• Eligibility to apply for an interest free season ticket loan, an interest free gym membership loan and/or an interest free rental deposit loan.
• Cycle to work scheme.
  
  
  

What happens next?

Once your application has been submitted and reviewed, our Recruitment team will share the outcome with you by email.

We typically hold two interview stages per vacancy providing the opportunity to meet two members of the hiring team at each stage. The first stage is typically conducted virtually and the second stage typically in person at the office in which the role would be based. However, we strive to remain flexible depending on the requirements of the role or the candidate.

Our strength lies in our differences.

We are a Disability Confident and top Stonewall employer, a Valuable 500 member, a founding member of the Mindful Business Charter, signatory of the Race at Work Charter and a proud partner of Neurodiversity in Law. We encourage and value different ideas and styles of thinking. It’s with different perspectives that we’ll find solutions to our clients’ most complex challenges. It’s how we’ll deliver outstanding results today, and tomorrow. We want everybody attending an interview to be comfortable and able to fully demonstrate their experience and talents.

Our in-house recruiter, Bhavika Upton, would be happy to have an informal chat about this role, provide this job advert or our application form in an alternative format, and/or discuss any reasonable adjustments to be made either during the recruitment process or after offer stage. You can contact Bhavika by emailing [email protected]