Overview
Pensions Lawyer (Associate) – NQ to 5 years PQE
Location: Glasgow or Edinburgh
Brief
We are looking to recruit a newly qualified to 5 years PQE lawyer to join our Scottish pensions team which is top ranked in the Legal 500 and Chambers legal directories.
Responsibilities
The role is wide-ranging. In addition to providing advice on technical pensions law issues across the different work types that the team covers, the successful candidate can expect to be involved in the team’s client and market-facing activities. This will include client meetings, training sessions and networking and working routinely with colleagues in Edinburgh and Glasgow, and across the wider national pensions team.
Qualifications
* ideally have gained experience in the pensions department of a City firm or large regional practice, and already have a good level of knowledge and experience of pensions law.
* be a team player, able to establish effective working relationships with colleagues in an agile environment;
* be technically strong and able to exercise good commercial judgment;
* have the interpersonal skills necessary to develop effective working relationships with clients, market contacts and the wider firm
What will we offer you?
* We are a market leading, dynamic and growing team who work together to produce outstanding results for our clients.
* We invest in our team and have a first-class training and career development programme, regular career discussions, and annual appraisals. The quality and depth of our training reflects our position as a market leader. Our training will assist you to develop as a pensions specialist with valuable sector knowledge and the ability to deliver high quality services.
* Early responsibility and opportunities to develop client relationships.
About the Firm
Pinsent Masons is a global 100 law firm, with over 3,800 employees operating out of 28 locations across Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa and the Middle East. We have a long-standing reputation for delivering high-quality legal advice rooted in a deep understanding of the sectors and geographies in which our clients operate. Our global reach ensures that we are well-placed to advise on complex multi-jurisdictional matters across a full range of legal disciplines.
The firm has significant multinational credentials in the financial services, energy, infrastructure, real estate, and advanced manufacturing and technology sectors. Services provided across these sectors include asset management and investment funds, corporate and M&A, commercial, competition, litigation and arbitration, banking, restructuring, insurance, regulatory, construction, projects, pensions, property, planning and environmental, procurement, outsourcing, employment, share plans and incentives, technology and tax advice.
We value diversity and inclusion. We are committed to creating a better workplace where all our people can succeed and feel like they belong. We want to attract, retain and develop people at all levels and encourage applications from all suitably qualified candidates whatever their ethnicity, religion, age, physical or mental disability/long term condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or other characteristics. We have embedded a range of diversity and inclusion initiatives to create an environment in which our people can flourish.
We stand out for our innovative approach to service delivery. For example, the firm has developed a number of in-house legal technology and project management solutions, operates a hub of freelance lawyers, called Vario, and a global Diversity and Inclusion consultancy, Brook Graham.
Put simply, we offer a range of professional disciplines to our clients, enabled by our people, process and technology.
Awards
We’re being recognised equally by commentators and other market movers through a plethora of awards spanning every region and culminating in being named law firm of the year by Legal Business, the FT’s most innovative law firm in Europe (for the third time in eight years), winning their sustainability award in Asia Pacific and being ranked as Thomson Reuters’ leading legal brand in their UK index.
We have been recognised by Stonewall as a Top Global Employer. Recognising that we are a leading employer in advancing LGBTQ+ inclusion. Pinsent Masons is recognised as a Top Ten Employer for Working Families in 2023 for the seventh consecutive year. We are accredited as a Disability Confident Employer by the Department for Work & Pensions and we were the first law firm to sign up the global Valuable 500.
Please view our global awards and nominations at www.pinsentmasons.com/accolades
EEO / Diversity
As an inclusive employer, we are willing to consider any flexible working requests.
Should you require further details, please contact our in-house Lateral Recruitment Advisor Johenn Choi who can discuss the role and requirements. Contact details: LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/johenn-choi; Johenn.Choi@pinsentmasons.com
Job details
* Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
* Employment type: Full-time
* Job function: Legal
* Industries: Legal Services and Law Practice
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