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Commercial Dispute Resolution - Senior Associate/Managing Associate - Sheffield
Apply locations Sheffield posted on Posted 8 Days Ago job requisition id JR100830
The Team:
Our award-winning national Commercial Dispute Resolution team is made up of over 100 lawyers across our 13 UK offices.
The Sheffield Commercial Dispute Resolution team enjoys a formidable reputation within the Sheffield City Region and beyond. It is recognised as a leading practice within Legal 500 and Chambers. As well as acting for many of the region’s leading businesses, the team boasts an exceptional roster of national and international clients across multiple sectors including manufacturing, technology, hospitality, food and sports. The team are results-driven for their clients, providing commercial and pragmatic advice which provides real value and is key to the long-term strategic relationships which the team enjoys with its clients.
The team handles a very broad and interesting spectrum of work specialising in particular in complex and high value disputes arising across a range of areas including but not limited to:
* Shareholder, partnership and trusts.
* Commercial contracts and warranties.
* Sale and purchase agreements and completion accounts.
* Professional negligence claims.
* Enforcement of restrictive covenants.
* Fraud and misrepresentation.
* Injunctive relief, including freezing orders.
* Contentious insolvency and enforcement.
* Reputational management, including defamation
The Role:
This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious and entrepreneurial solicitor who can demonstrate excellent legal capability with a strategic and commercial mindset. The breadth of work handled by the team means they are open-minded as to whether the candidate has previously specialised in a particular area of disputes work or has had a general practice. The candidate will be willing and able to quickly immerse themselves in a varied and interesting caseload.
Ultimately, the right candidate will be adaptable, organised, hardworking, enthusiastic, and eager to learn with at least 4 years’ experience in commercial disputes work and an interest in business development. In return we offer a great salary, competitive benefits, a great place to work, excellent training and career prospects and challenging but highly rewarding work.
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We’re 1000+ Freethinkers, striving to create a better place. We’re committed to living our values – smart, bold, together – and making a positive change at every touchpoint for our colleagues, clients and communities. We’ve built our law firm on solid foundations of integrity, entrepreneurialism and expertise. This has helped us grow into one of the largest full-service law firms in the UK, with 13 offices and over 1000 colleagues, and counting.
1. Think Ambition: We’ve built our law firm on solid foundations of integrity, entrepreneurialism and expertise. This has helped us grow into one of the largest full-service law firms in the UK, with 13 offices and over 1,000 colleagues, and counting. Matching individual ambition and our firm’s ambition matters. That’s why we develop our people by making sure every one of our team feels connected through a clear progression pathway and leadership support. It’s helped us to grow an award-winning reputation in the eyes of our clients and competitors that each and every one of the Freeths team works hard to uphold in everything we do.
2. Think Recognition: Sharing success matters to us. We love to showcase excellent work across the firm and celebrate our people through our employee awards. We recognise our teams work hard together to deliver the best solutions for our clients. That’s why g reat work is well rewarded - our rewards and benefits are among the best in the business.
3. Think Together: Our people are at the heart of what makes Freeths such a great place to be. We’re a firm where people care about each other and employee wellbeing is high on the agenda. Our firm is set up to ensure everyone’s voice is heard, and mutual respect is shown by all. We understand that differences add strength, which means we maintain a diverse culture where everyone has the freedom to be themselves and thrive.
We're committed to championing diversity and building an inclusive culture. We want to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people, regardless of their background. We welcome applications from everybody, particularly those from marginalised backgrounds.
We celebrate difference, encourage diversity of thought and are dedicated to continually challenging our processes to maintain fairness, equity and transparency. If you require additional support at any stage of the recruitment process due to a disability or a health condition, please do not hesitate to contact !recruitmentfreeths@freeths.co.uk and we will be happy to discuss.
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