An attractive opportunity to join one of pre-eminent offshore Magic Circle firms at Senior Counsel level. You will need to possess a strong academic record, be admitted in either the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong or Ireland and have gained your experience at a major international or offshore law firm or a respected set of chancery/commercial barristers chambers. The firm handles a broad range of high quality cross-border litigation and dispute resolution matters, including banking & financial disputes, commercial and company disputes, insolvency, fraud and asset tracing, investment fund disputes, trusts disputes and professional liability. The role will involve assisting in the expansion and growth of the Guernsey office's commercial litigation practice, working alongside colleagues in the Jersey, London, Caribbean, Asian and Middle Eastern offices of the firm. This will involve becoming engaged in, and (in time) leading the implementation of, cross-border initiatives aimed at ensuring the firm leverages its Channel Islands business across the global business. You will also assist in developing and expanding client relationships important to the firm’s success, taking ownership of the development of relationships with core clients, and participate in the development of the practice’s know-how and actively participate in conferences, seminars and internal training. Hemingway Scott is a boutique legal recruitment agency which specialises in recruiting common law qualified lawyers for major offshore law firms in the Caribbean and Bermuda. Founding director Simon Scott has specialised in recruiting lawyers for major offshore law firms in the Caribbean and Bermuda for the last sixteen years and formerly practised as an employment lawyer in the UK. Prior to founding Hemingway Scott, Simon ran the offshore desk at a boutique international legal recruitment agency and a major global legal recruitment agency. He has personal experience of living and working offshore, having spent four years in the Cayman Islands from 2009 to 2014. Simon is a graduate of Cambridge University, where he read law at Queens' College.