Job Title
Legal Counsel
Salary
to £90,000
Location
Home and Windsor (home working 3-4 days a week)
PQE
5 years +
Overview
One of our in-house clients, a growing company based in Windsor, are looking for a senior corporate affairs associate / legal counsel to assist and support the Director of Corporate Affairs in the management of all legal affairs for the company with a particular focus on Intellectual Property, Data Protection and Commercial work.
Key Responsibilities
* Managing the legal aspects of the companys Intellectual Property portfolio including coordinating external IP lawyers
* Bringing oppositions to registrations
* Negotiating settlements to disputes
* Registration of new trade marks
* Determining litigation strategy
* Overseeing, advising and leading compliance to UK GDPR and Data Protection across the company including being the nominated person for Data Protection internally and externally, identifying and minimising data protection risks
* Assessing data protection compliance
* Drafting, implementing and ensuring compliance with data protection policy and procedure
* Reviewing, amending and drafting legal documentation and contracts to support the commercial and operation arms of the business
* Advising the board of directors and company on a wide variety of legal areas and obtaining external expertise where required to do so
* Managing external lawyers and suppliers including their costs
Qualifications
It is essential that have a minimum of 5 years PQE (this can be gained in-house or private practice) and have extensive litigation experience. Experience in data protection law and IP will also be beneficial.
Application
McKinlay Law endeavour to contact all successful candidates within 24 hours. However, due to the volume of applications that we receive, we are not able to respond to every candidate individually. If you have not heard from us within 24 hours your application has been unsuccessful and we have not retained your details.
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